I agree with you as well this post does seem questionable or lacking
details. When I first signed up with sprintpcs they mislabeled my billing
address and when I would check all their on-line invoices they all claimed
they were inaccurate because I haven't received my first bill. The amount
didn't seem right so I was going to wait for my invoice. Well the bill was
never sent to my correct address and with all the sign-up fees +
sprintpcs' month in advanced payments the amount due hit over my credit
limit and then they disconnected my service. I have heard nothing from
them about this and only after I tried calling and got the error msg did I
find out what happened. I called the billing number provided and not only
did they gladly reconnect my service, correct my address, AND credit me
for the reconnect fee but also for my hassles with them.

    Now if you only missed one payment they don't tend to start
calling you till a week after it was due and even then they don't
disconnect your service until either you go over your credit limit or you
are several weeks past due. After they disconnect you your number is
still associated with your account and you don't lose it. As long as your
account is active you still have the number, it is just not usable. Only
time you should lose the number would be having your account terminated
without starting a porting procedure. If sprintpcs handed you over to a
collections agency at that point they may have canceled your account but
really companies like sprintpcs only do that when they feel there is no
way they can collect/re-establish service and that is not not when you
miss one payment making you late a few days.

    Of course you didn't say how late you were and since last Sunday was
almost a week ago already then that would mean you are going on just
about three weeks being late, assuming that Sunday was two weeks after
your original payment due(when they start to really notice a lack of
payment). If they disconnected you then most likely you are over the
credit limit which would mean you are now around three weeks late over
what sprintpcs believes you are capable of paying. Keeping in mind
sprintpcs adds your next month bill shortly after your last billing cycle
which would count against your credit limit, as it had happened to me. So
if you are as late as I have guessed, been disconnected due to a credit
limit overage, and put off paying another week the only issue I see wrong
is that sprintpcs "keeps" reminding you that you owe them money that is
more then a small oversight on your part. Of course my time periods may be
very wrong and I do apologize if this is not the case but it would fit in
with what I have seen from sprintpcs.

    Either way I suspect that you are not telling the whole truth or that
your bill is no small amount.

Once his deliquency hits LightBridge, the best he can hope for is
TracFone or Liberty Wireless.

Requesting post-dated checks is policy in SPCS collections?

They are aware that's illegal right?

-F

Yep, I don't see the OP's issue.  He agrees he owes Sprint the money,
the payment is way overdue, and now he complains because Sprint
is trying to collect what is owed! The moral is that if you don't want to
be hassled you should pay your bills on time.