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annathepiperSo week before last, on the morning of the 6th, I left some bills in the mailbox on my way down to the bus stop. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird later expressed some concern that as she had been heading out that same morning, she had noticed that the flag was up on the mailbox, but there was no actual mail in it. But by the time spazzkat and I came home, incoming mail had been dropped off, and the flag was down.
This raised a yellow flag for Dara, who worried that perhaps our outgoing mail had been swiped. Turns out she was right.
I had paid five bills to go out in that batch, and three of the next rounds of those bills have come through. And they have late charges on them for the amounts of the checks that were supposed to have gone out that morning. To wit, grrrr.
So now I get to call the bank tomorrow to report the stolen checks, and I also have to call Puget Sound Energy and Cingular and tell them, "Okay, y'know the last round of bills? We actually paid those and sent 'em out, but they got stolen. So what do we do about this?" And Dara's going to have to call the cops. And we're going to have to get a secure mailbox, and until then, I'm going to have to go out of my way to mail bills at a post office or stick them into a secure post office box.
Grrrrr.
solarbird later expressed some concern that as she had been heading out that same morning, she had noticed that the flag was up on the mailbox, but there was no actual mail in it. But by the time spazzkat and I came home, incoming mail had been dropped off, and the flag was down.This raised a yellow flag for Dara, who worried that perhaps our outgoing mail had been swiped. Turns out she was right.
I had paid five bills to go out in that batch, and three of the next rounds of those bills have come through. And they have late charges on them for the amounts of the checks that were supposed to have gone out that morning. To wit, grrrr.
So now I get to call the bank tomorrow to report the stolen checks, and I also have to call Puget Sound Energy and Cingular and tell them, "Okay, y'know the last round of bills? We actually paid those and sent 'em out, but they got stolen. So what do we do about this?" And Dara's going to have to call the cops. And we're going to have to get a secure mailbox, and until then, I'm going to have to go out of my way to mail bills at a post office or stick them into a secure post office box.
Grrrrr.
