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Can You Believe It?

You'll Never Believe It!

We moved to this ground floor flat seven and a half years ago. We have no individual mail boxes here, the postman pushes the letters through the front door letter box and then we have to sort them out. We place letters in piles on the window sill. There are just four flats in our block, so it is not much of a task.

All of that time, I have been the person who shifts through the mail placing it on the window sill for the other residents. They tend to leave their own 'junk' mail on the window sill for me to deal with – they are all out at work and too busy for such menial tasks (I suppose!). This junk mail usually gets placed in our recycling bins. I do sometimes get annoyed that they do not do this for themselves, but there you go! I may be retired, but I DO have a life! Ha, ha. Don't they realise I love writing on Wattpad?

With the junk mail, there is sometimes a letter to a gentleman who used to live in Flat 1. He moved out just before we moved in and left no forwarding address. Each year, without fail, a letter arrives for him. Sometimes, more than one letter comes and that has been the case this year. I think four have arrived this year. The letter is from a mobile phone company asking for payment of – wait for it - £1.94p ! Each time, I write 'Not this address - Please amend your records' and return the letter to the post box. But still the letters keep coming!

You can imagine, can't you, the cost of the admin and postal costs for just this one letter, when this letter should never have been sent out in the first place. The debt should have been written off. I am beginning to wonder how many other letters this company is sending out like this and if they have any profits at all! I ask you, seven and a half years, it must be some sort of record. Perhaps I should write to the Guinness Book of Records? Lol

In desperation, I have found the name of the CEO of the company and returned the last letter to him, accompanied by a letter from me, informing him of the situation. The letter is polite, but assertive. I find it easier to be assertive when I write things down, but in person not at all. I finished the letter by adding 'I never want to see a letter addressed to Mr ........ ever again!'

I will keep you posted as to what happens next.

This is British stupidity at it's worst! Heaven Help Us All!

December 2020

Since writing this three more letters have arrived and I never did receive a reply from the

CEO of the company who have sent them.  Not surprising is it?

Jan 2021