Cuddlebug,
In reference to the $5.00 Invoice fee ...
Hughes either charges a Invoice Fee or you have to have a credit card/ bank info on file at which time they will "auto-bill".
The problem (as I see it) with auto billing is that they debit your account on the day the bill is generated, not on the bill due date.
Due to past "billing issues" I too have Invoice Billing so as to not have banking/credit card info on file but I pay my bill online as "one time payments".
( I seen in another of your posts you mentioned Ferris State and I seem to recall you stating at some point you were in Michigan.
Can you say roughly where ? I am in west Michigan, along the lakeshore roughly halfway between Ludington and Muskegon)