first time.. hopefully last

[ceagle]

In all my years, I've never been subjected to a check being stolen... but it finally happened. Same thing that happened to another friend a few months ago... someone intercepts a letter you send to pay a bill, then tries to forge it ;/

I'm now suspecting that there might be a crime ring around here doing it...

*sighs*

So luckily the bank where it was deposited caught it and let me know, but it will still be 7 to 10 days before the money gets refunded to my bank... plus.. I had to close my old account and make a new one, so that took a while... and in a strange unfortunate coincidence, I had just reordered checks, so I couldn't even use a single one of them.. loss of about $75 (I ordered a lot)... *sighs again* ... and in Economics if you include the OpportunityCost as well, that's probably another $50 or so... an overall loss of over a hundred smackers.. rarrrrrr... about a full day's pay lost just due to someone trying hard NOT to make an honest living ;/

I'll be mailing my checks directly from Inside the post office from now on... no more blue drop boxes...

Comments

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Sorry that happened. You seem to get your mail intercepted a lot (thinking of your credit card problem)

I don't believe I've ever had a check stolen, but it would be easy enough the way they mail them out to me: a plastic bag with a collapsed box, always the same color and appearance. And that's from the bank.

When mailing checks I'm worried because it's obviously a payment envelope.

So then we have online which most but not all companies use. Maybe I should set up a card e exclusively for payment and only feed it at bill time. What a pain.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Indeed... I've considered not using the billing mailer-envelope and just using a plain one.... I might try that too, but for now I think I'm just going to try to keep the drops -inside- the the post office and rule out the entire scope of external blue drop-box locations and see if that narrows things down better...

(oh! p.s. .... not really sure what happened with the credit card one... that happened to about 5 people at work, just with work credit cards.. so I think that may have been a database theft somewhere)