Posts by George Palmer27

Has anyone ever dealt with this absolute nightmare where you send off a package with a COD amount, say $77, the recipient pays the full thing, but then you get back $20 less—meaning you actually only see $57?!?

I went down to the local USPS office and basically got told to shove it, and when I called their customer service line, the lady on the other end was completely clueless... like, zero answers. Seriously, what else am I even supposed to do at this point?

Got it, thanks for getting back to me.

Proposed garnishment for water/sewer services

So, my elderly parents got themselves into a bit of a mess and missed their payments for water, trash pickup, and whatever else was lumped onto that same bill from January through June of 2014. I stepped in to fix things as soon as I could and paid the whole thing off—mostly around December or January of this year.

But get this: American Water handed this over to a law firm way back in September 2014. They made a decision to start the collection process in November 2014, and now, out of nowhere, a legal notice shows up at the house today.

Basically, they (the water company) are using this to demand the water usage fees from the total bill amount (I’m assuming the sanitation fees are included too), but since I already paid it, I'm stuck. I have no clue if I should even bother filing an objection with the law firm, or if I should just grab my receipts and head down to the Goldman Sachs office on Potomac to sort it out? What do I even do?

And then there's those extra legal fees $73 that apparently have to go to the law firm. Am I stuck paying those regardless? Is there any way around it?

Thanks for the heads-up. He was actually over at the Atlantic, so I’m gonna reach out to them directly to double-check everything.

Honestly, what a complete disaster...

So, my old man hasn't had an auto insurance policy in his own name for the last four years. Before that gap, he was sitting on a 50% discount... now I'm wondering, did he totally blow that bonus, or can he still get it back?

Seriously, we need to reopen the drag racing thread immediately. I’ve got enough material right here to fill a ten-page manifesto.