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- From: rubin@watson.ibm.com (Bill Rubin)
- Subject: NYC Parking Violations Bureau, continued
- Summary: still can't get it right
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.224731.146835@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:47:31 GMT
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- You may recall I posted a few weeks ago about how the friendly NYC parking
- enforcement folks left me a gift of 2 parking tickets in thanks for my
- spending a Sunday morning shopping on the Lower East Side. I thought you
- might like to hear the latest.
-
- When I last wrote, I had gotten one ticket (the duplicate registration)
- dropped from $55 to $25 by a hearing-by-mail. The 2nd one, for the expired
- meter, had my "broken meter" claim refused, claiming the meter was not
- broken per their records. So, I paid the $25 (no choice at that point, you
- have to pay before you can appeal) for the first ticket and sent in a letter
- to the "hearing-by-mail" people for the 2nd one. They cashed my check, and
- last week I got a notice in the mail for the reduced ticket telling me to
- pay up or else! They showed the ticket being for $55 and the balance being
- $30! Nowhere did it show that the ticket had been reduced. So, I called,
- and after sitting on hold for 15 minutes (I was actually surprised, I
- expected the number to be busy when I called) I gave the operator my summons
- number. She took it, and there's silence on the line (she may have been
- speaking to someone in the background, I heard some noise but it might have
- been another operator on another call). Finally, I said "hello?". She said
- "yes, I see that it was reduced, and that you paid, and you should not have
- received the notice". She claims she is sending me a letter saying that I
- am all paid up. Why do I have this feeling that I will need to hold on to
- that letter when the DMV starts telling me that they will not renew my
- registration due to outstanding tickets?
-
- Oh yes, no word on the other ticket yet. I sent it return receipt
- requested, took almost 2 weeks for the receipt to arrive!
-
- -- Bill rubin@watson.ibm.com
-