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I was thinking that when I got home from work today I would go ahead and finish off cleaning up the
chaos that is the 'computer room'. Instead, I got a letter in the mail from a collection agency
regarding a long distance company that I have not had for several months. I did a quick check of
my banking register to find that yes the amount in question was 103.53, and the check for it had been
written and mailed forever and a day ago. I don't keep my bank statements anymore so I had to get online
to find the particular check (706 in this case) to make sure that it had been cashed. The company had
cashed the check a couple of weeks ago, then turned me over to a collection agency without even sending me
one of those demanding 'final notice' type letters. So, I called the collection agency to give them the
information about the check, the date it was cashed and an offer to get a copy of the check emailed to
them. She asked me to hold for a moment, I assume she was calling the referring company at that point,
then came back on and said that the processing time for payments can sometimes be longer than expected, but
noted that if I call her back in a week we can see if the problem has resolved itself.
I know that companies make this type of error frequently, I do not really hate them for it as it is
just a clerical error that is usually quite easy to fix. What can their defense possibly be when you
produce a copy of the check that they cashed? The thing that I find irritating is that she would not
say that, yes, the company had cashed the check weeks ago and it was an error on their part to turn
the bill over to collection. So will my credit report now show that I left the bill unpaid long enough
for it to be turned over to a collection agency, while the reality is that the bill had long been paid?
If that turns out to be the case I will likely be more than irritated, hostile perhaps. And honestly if
they thought that I had not paid them, why not one of those lame courtesy calls that could have cleared it all
up when I explained to them that they had cashed the check? I am not entirely sure if companies moving
their call centers to foriegn countries is really working out all that well in that respect.
Hopefully this situation will not escalate to the point where I have to get the Attorney General
involved. That may seem far fetched, but my wife had to do exactly that to get her cell phone company
to finally admit that they had cashed her check. We still don't know whose account they posted that
payment to, but it certainly wasn't hers and it took government intervention to get the matter cleared
up. Now That is customer service.
• I haven't posted many news items here lately since the only thing there
seems to be to post is about prison abuse. Today, however, I found a few things that I am going to
comment on, not because they are newsworthy but because they are humorous, except one.
I usually just read the headlines from Yahoo News, and
the little story that they have there, if the story interests me I will go to a major news site and
search for the subject. This has worked pretty well for me in the past, it seems that I may have
been getting a lot of bogus information though.
The first instance can be found
Here. It is in regards to drugs being used by participants in the Olympics. But read this quote:
This one is pretty good also.
It is an article about states that are run by republicans raising taxes. And at quite an alarming
rate:
I have said it since day one, I don't proofread. It may be a fault but it is all mine. I really think
that a site as popular as Yahoo News should go ahead and do a bit of proofreading.
• Here is a news item that is just plain depressing.
Dubya has decided to start attacking gay marriage again. Could there be a worse time for him to do
it? Actually I guess the question should be could there be a better time for him to do it. A quote from
the article:
Well I guess that is about enough for today. Check back tomorrow for more of my cheery, happy
writing.
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