The Mesa Bank is offering your company the use of their lockbox services. They estimate that you can reduce your average mail time by 2 days and they can save you a combined clearing and processing time of 1.5 days by putting the checks into the clearing system sooner. The firm receives 320 checks a day on average written for $2,500. The current T-Bill rate is 4% or .0107% per day. If Mesa will charge your firm an annual fee of $35,000 and .20 cents per check handled will you accept Mesa's services?