NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/misc/consumer/21061

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Wier)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: JUNK MAIL WITH BILLS
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Date: 22 Dec 92 05:30:52 GMT
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From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (George B. Clark):
>
> Someone who dislikes your attitude might purposely discard your check.
> Then on the next month's statement, you'd get an overdue penalty because
> your account is deliquent. Granted, it's not your fault, but it's going
> to consume your uncompensated time to resolve the matter.

  Actually, I believe this happend to me once.  I inherited some oil
  property in my folks estate, although by the time I got it, it's been
  split so many ways that I only get about $35 a year from it. Nontheless,
  Midland Co. Texas sends me a tax bill on it every year for $.15 (not
  a typo - that's 15 CENTS).  One time I wrote 'em a check and put in
  the memo line "DUMB 1987 TAXES" - the check was never cashed (and
  it never cleared).  I'm pretty sure someone in the tax office just
  threw it in the trash.

  So, what I do now is to make 'em send me three notices (original plus
  two past due) so they get to spend about a buck to get my $.15.

  If it was me, I think I'd forgive any taxes less than $1.  But then,
  I'm not a bureaucracy...


- Bob Wier

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