[dsl]

Or you might be remembering this story from an email your mom forwarded to your MSN account in the mid '90s?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zero-dollars-and-zero-sens...

[dTal]

There's a golden age sci-fi short for everything:

http://the-eye.eu/public/Books/SciFi_Fantasy/Fantasy/Dickson...

(Computers Don't Argue, Gordon Dickson, 1965)

[wazoox]

However I often had bills and reminders of amounts that hover around postage price. The latest one was a 6.22 euros hospital bill.