"SNAIL MAIL" is right!

[bistro]

On Dec 01, I sent in a check to the county tax office for my semi-annual real estate taxes...$1500. Just today I was attempting to do some reconciling of my online banking statement and my check book when I noticed that the check had not been posted yet. I called the tax office and found out that they JUST RECEIVED IT TODAY....18 days later! What makes it even sadder is that the tax office is less than 5 miles from my house (I asked the clerk if there were stickers on the letter from Singapore, Hong Kong, Timbuktu, etc. that would explain why it took so long to go such a short distance).

And the Post Office wants to raise the rates for postage?!? Good grief...

[Steve R Jones]

But....Just received Today could mean that their mail clerk had days a go and they are just getting around to posting it..

Tax Office vs Post Office - we'll never know.

[jdc2000]

I'm betting it is the Post Office. These days, most mail is sorted at a regional sorting center. The local mail for my city travels 50 miles to the regional sorting center, is sorted, and then travels 50 miles back. This is supposed to happen overnight, but it can take up to 4 days. Then, the carriers have 10 days to deliver it. The typical practice on my route is to only deliver the mail that has to be delivered by today, and leave the rest for the next guy to deliver. Note that we never have the same mail carrier two days in a row on my route. So, 14 days is often what it takes for mail delivery.

[bistro]

Italicised caps are mine:

Pony Express

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the North American continent from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 1860 to October 1861.

The original fast mail service had messages carried by horseback riders relay across the prairies, plains, deserts, and mountains of the Western United States. It briefly reduced the time for mail to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts TO AROUND TEN DAYS.

Time to break out the horses and saddles again, I think.

[Crimson Blonde]

I have a feeling it was sitting in someones in box at the tax office Bistro ... I think they just processed it today

[lgbpop]

Your semi-annual payment is higher than my annual payment.

For that kind of money, your weather must be REALLY good.

[SuperSparks]

You haven't seen Bistro's house

[bistro]

Your semi-annual payment is higher than my annual payment.

For that kind of money, your weather must be REALLY good.

That's the DC area for you...super high real estate prices and my county has almost the highest real estate taxes in Virginia. For a long while it was completely out of hand...What I originally paid for my 3-bedroom townhome (with no yard to speak of), my brother could get a 5-bedroom single family home on 1 acre in his neighborhood in Georgia. It's dropped a little bit here like everywhere else now, but it is still downright outrageous.

Weather? It's warm all year round....all that hot air rising above the Capitol Dome...

[Train]

lgbpop , thaqt is cheaper than King county.
My guess is about half, if tht much.

10 days for intown delivery has been going on since 1990 as far as my experiemce has shown. Sad!

[bistro]

SuperSparks: THAT one was my first choice....but the bank said they could only go as high as 7 million on the loan which left me short a couple of million. Though my 35 oil fields were at full production, I didn't want to liquidate any, so I had to settle for the townhouse. That, and the 250-foot yacht and the $5,000 monthly docking fees at Monaco were setting me back a little bit...

[Herring]

Interesting. I mailed a cheque to Revenu Quebec (Quebec provincial tax office) a few weeks ago. It was delivered 600km (±372.8227 miles ) away, opened and deposited within 36 hours of me putting it in the mailbox. I was flabbergasted I tell ya!
Strangely enough, when they owe me it takes months to get anything.

Speaking of loans. If you got a sub-prime loan now in the US, does that mean the bank would be giving you interest on your loan ?

[Train]

Speaking of loans. If you got a sub-prime loan now in the US, does that mean the bank would be giving you interest on your loan ?

Interesting Idea!