The Milwaukee post office sent me a piece of a check and a piece of the envelope back and said it got damaged in handling but they didn't say what happened to the rest of it. It was the upper left hand corner containg my name and drivers license number, and that was the only information on the check. The bank wants $30.00 to cancel payment , which is of course, obsene. Who else has had this happen and how did it turn out.
2007-06-10 02:52:09 · 4 answers · asked by catholicgirl55 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
Yes about 4 bills that I mailed never made it to their destination. I cancelled the checks and maybe 2 weeks later I got a "piece" of one of them back in a baggie from the post office >< I was ticked off lol.
The Envelope must have gotten stuck in the machine at the post office. The part they sent you back was probably all they could recover from the machine, Normally they send it back in a plastic baggie.
Don't bother to cancel the check(as it was destroyed), just send a new one to the company it was for.
Oh and on a side note, why do you write your drivers license # on your checks? VERY bad practice and not required by any company, especially through the mail.
If it falls into the wrong hands they now have not only your checking acct information, Your Address( on the check) but also your drivers license #. You are giving thieves an extra tool to defraud you(identity theft).
2007-06-10 03:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by Helpfulhannah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great question.
The post office may have sent the rest of the envelope on to the recipient. Contact the company and ask if they received it.
Tell them what happened.
This is a great example of why it is very important to put a return address on all mail the you send out. Many years ago someone threw a firecracker into a mailbox in which I had sent a bill payment. The mail in the box caught fire. The only thing that was left of my payment was a small portion of the upper left corner of the envelope. It was returned to me by the PO. If I had not put my return address on the envelope I would never have known about the incident.
Yes mail does sometimes get squished in the automation used by the USPS. Maybe one in 10,000 pieces.
2007-06-10 15:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by Postal Professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the check was over $100 consider a stop payment. But if it was made out to a company I would forget about it.
Just make sure you send a new one.
2007-06-10 03:55:18 · answer #3 · answered by MICHELS2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mailperson provides me EVERYONES costs...even had a number of his own put in my call. by no potential are their exams to stability out this travisty! what's a single mom to do? So I in basic terms get the charges and throw them in my drawer. could have a lotto on the top of the year to verify which one decrease than $25.00 i will pay. yet heavily, if I had sufficient money to pay the charges, i could bypass my happy AS$ to the mailbox conventional!
2016-10-08 22:15:44 · answer #4 · answered by stead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
+My gosh $30.00 for a stop payment. I know this doesn't answer your question..
I'd change banks.
2007-06-10 08:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by yahweh550 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋