Okay, someone dies for this one.

I'm sure I've already talked about the debit card fiasco I've been going through the past month.

How the bank didn't order it, then ordered one on the 4th of May.

Well, today is 14 days, I still haven't gotten the damn thing. I don't know if there was something wrong or if my local post office sent it back, or put it in someone else's box and they never returned it to the post office so it could be given to the right person or what.

My luck, someone's got that and my pin number and is draining my checking account dry right now. I'm ready to scream, since there's nothing I can do about it but wait.

It's like banging your head against a brick wall. No matter who I call, I can't seem to get anything done the right way.

Shael

I recently read an article about the postal service and undelivered mail.

In NY, they found a bunch of undelivered mail in a construction site dumpster.

Another incident was a postal worker who was found dead in his home by a family member; along with years worth of undelivered mail all around his house.

A man in Massachusetts found a pile of mail under the porch of his mailman/neighbor after he went under there to retrieve his cat.

I know where I work, we have lots of missing mail. Course, that could be because we represent the wife of our postal carrier in a divorce - ha ha!

You gotta love The Postal Service! Just sayin'.

Posted by Shael My luck, someone's got that and my pin number and is draining my checking account dry right now. I'm ready to scream, since there's nothing I can do about it but wait.

No, you can sign onto a neat thing called online banking where you can keep tabs on your account(s), no matter where you are or how cardless you are. Better than being freaked out and paranoid about what may or may not be happening.

I once mailed a 2 Gig CF card to a friend that I had borrowed it from. I mailed it in the appropriate package and labeled it correctly, as well as paying the fee for the larger envelope, only to hear from him that the letter arrived, and a clean cut was made in the package about the size of a memory card... and the card was missing.

huh..

I'm still waiting on a birthday card from 2 months ago, my college transcripts from 2 months ago and my hubby's waiting on his transcripts that was apparently sent out almost 2 months ago...

Doesn't all this missing mail make you want to go postal or something?

I kid, I kid...

Posted by Mr. Fuzzy Doesn't all this missing mail make you want to go postal or something? I kid, I kid...

Makes me want to drive to the local distribution center in Plattsburgh and see where the hell my mail is personally.

Shael

Posted by hydrotherapy No, you can sign onto a neat thing called online banking where you can keep tabs on your account(s), no matter where you are or how cardless you are. Better than being freaked out and paranoid about what may or may not be happening.

for the record, Shael is well aware of online banking, genius.
what her problem amounts to is the fact that she would like the ability to remove cash from her account at strange hours or whenever she feels like it. She is either being fucked around by the bank or the postal service here in our shitty little town.

condescend much?

You could even say... I hate the post office!

i ordered something online and was waiting and waiting for the USPS to deliver it. guess what my dumbass mail lady does? if your garage door is open she just sticks packages in there (vs the front door) which pisses me off to no end...because garages are usually a little cluttered, and trying to find a package that may or may not be in there is SO ANNOYING.

well guess what this royal dumbass did? she put the package in someone else's garage, across town - so according to amazon, my package was "delivered"

alksdjfl;aksdjfl;aksdfgjakl;sdjf!!!!!

Posted by Samurai for the record, Shael is well aware of online banking, genius. what her problem amounts to is the fact that she would like the ability to remove cash from her account at strange hours or whenever she feels like it. She is either being fucked around by the bank or the postal service here in our shitty little town. condescend much?

Can you tell me about cars, now? I'm sure I have some pretty incorrect opinions and need me some schoolin'. I like Eurotrash cars. Please tell me what I can do about this.

Sincerely,
hydro xoxo

Posted by hydrotherapy Can you tell me about cars, now? I'm sure I have some pretty incorrect opinions and need me some schoolin'. I like Eurotrash cars. Please tell me what I can do about this. Sincerely, hydro xoxo

drive a chevrolet.

Finally...my debit card is at my bank, waiting for me. The bank rush ordered one and had it sent to the branch office via FedEx, at their expense.

About time too. Only took six weeks. I changed banks the middle of April and it's almost the end of May.

I just don't like writing checks. I make too many mistakes in my check register and a lot of places around here don't take checks anymore, too many screwups and paper hanger assholes that like to bounce checks and not pay for them. A debit card won't stop me overdrawing, but it'll at least help somewhat, it allows me to check my balance a little easier without calling the bank all the time. I also don't like having to go in the bank that often for stuff. It makes me feel like I'm being a nuisance, which I can become sometimes.

Also I pay most of my bills via debit card. My present debit card account is drawn off of a bank in Utah. I would feel better if I didn't have to wire the bank in Utah money all the time to use my debit card, this card allows me to go to my local branch, 7 miles away, make a deposit and use that debit card to pay my bills. I usually just make deposits for my bills, and make a phone call to my creditor and tell them to take the payment off of the debit card and the voila, the bill is paid! No waiting for a check to clear or any stupid shit like that.

I don't trust online banking that much yet. Too many things can go wrong and too much information is out there for people to steal.

The postmaster at my local post office will send anything back to the addressor if there is anything, and I mean ANYTHING incorrect in my address. So that's probably what happened. Also my mail sometimes finds it's way to my old address in Paul Smith's NY. Why, I don't know. I get stuff back post marked Ray Brook, NY. which is about 10-15 miles from there. It's where my last two bank statements went and came back from.

Shael

Posted by DiVaMoNKeY i ordered something online and was waiting and waiting for the USPS to deliver it. guess what my dumbass mail lady does? if your garage door is open she just sticks packages in there (vs the front door) which pisses me off to no end...because garages are usually a little cluttered, and trying to find a package that may or may not be in there is SO ANNOYING. well guess what this royal dumbass did? she put the package in someone else's garage, across town - so according to amazon, my package was "delivered" alksdjfl;aksdjfl;aksdfgjakl;sdjf!!!!!

So, whatever happened with that? I had the same thing happen with something I bought from eBay. SOMEBODY received it, but it wasn't me.

A few years ago, I got a huge box of CandleLite party stuff on my porch. There was probably $1K of items in there. They didn't even deliver it to the right STREET, it was the street across from me. Of course I returned it. But what if I didn't?? I've also gotten a tool box filled with tools delivered to my house and some sort of "Only seen on TV" cleaning product more recently.

WTF??

Sweetums, Ray Brook NY is closer to 40 miles away.
10-15 miles is Elizabethtown.

You should really consider changing banks. I have lost my cards on many occasions. I walk into my bank, with id and they give me a new card on the spot. I never imagined it would be done any other way.

Posted by argonian You should really consider changing banks. I have lost my cards on many occasions. I walk into my bank, with id and they give me a new card on the spot. I never imagined it would be done any other way.

you're not from northern New York.
because of where we work, we go through a credit union... we get perks and stuff with it. The other bank is a fucking nightmare to deal with, the one that Shael was talking about.

Posted by Samurai Sweetums, Ray Brook NY is closer to 40 miles away. 10-15 miles is Elizabethtown.

I know.

I meant it was 10 or 15 miles from Paul Smith's, NY.

Sometimes, I get angry and don't quite write what I exactly mean.

Also Argonian...

Sam and I may as well live in East Bumfuck, Egypt. Everything, like bank cards and checks have to be ordered here. No branch office here has the equipment to make Visa Check cards or anything of that nature, so you have to wait for them to be ordered.

Now, I have to wait for Visa to mail my PIN for the card so I can activate it and pay my bills, hopefully that won't take another month and a half. The only thing I really like about the card system is that I don't have to carry a lot of cash everywhere. Visa extends you a line of credit equivalent to your checking account balance. I'm the kind of person that'll carry 20 bucks in cash and keep the card for bigger expenditures or to pay for online purchases or bills like my cable, electric and insurance. I hate going to the post office and mailing money orders.

Shael