This world is getting crazier and crazier.
A couple of weeks ago, we decide to buy a new car and to finance the deal we decided to cash in some bonds that were gaining very little in the way of interest. Anyway, we put the certificates in an envelope and posted them off to be cashed in. The whole thing was supposed to take a maximum of 8 days so that's when we arranged to pick up the car.
How silly were we expecting the money to arrive on time. Well to be honest some of it did and some of it didn't, but being as the certificates all went in the same envelope we were a little concerned. My wife rang the bonds people and this is what she was told.
"A machine opens all the envelops and it only expects to find one piece of paper. If there was more than one certificate in the same envelope it will probably of destroyed the rest."
No we couldn't believe it either, but they promised to look into it. Today we received a letter from the bonds people repeating what had been said on the phone. They also gave us a form to fill in and on the bottom of it this is what it said.
"Please insert the form and any certificates into the envelope provided and return."
Is it me or what? If the machine only expects to find 1 piece of paper in every envelope, why ask people to put certificates into the envelope?
Regarding the car, we managed to scratch enough money together to pay for it, but we are hoping the bonds people get their act together so that we can get straight. I will not be investing any money with them again.
On lighter note, one of my books BossyBoots is available for a free download for the rest of September 2013.
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Happy reading
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