Psamathe
Guru
Reminds me from time when I lived in FRance and Sarkozy was putting himself forward for president and poster appearing a lot
Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind
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Pross
Senior Member
Every few months we get something through the post for a person I've never heard of (I think it is pension related). We've lived here over 25 years and the name on the envelope isn't the person we bought from. The envelope is marked with a box for you to check and return to sender to say the details are no longer correct. I've done this regularly and have also scrawled 'not at this address' on the envelope several times yet they still keep sending it to us. Emotions - annoyance at constantly receiving someone else's stuff and perplexity that they would bother having the check box if they are going to ignore people using it.
Ian H
Squire
It's possibly regarding a debt and they don't believe the person isn't there.
OP
OP
First Aspect
Veteran
After 25 years? I don't think companies can carry debt as potentially recoverable for that long can they?
AuroraSaab
Pharaoh
At 7 years they can no longer take court action apparently. I know someone who left the country to avoid repaying credit card, loans, and other debt with the intention of waiting it out. Bit daft as between the debt and absence your credit rating will be so poor you'll struggle to rent anything when you return.
Ian H
Squire
No idea. We were getting letters for persons unknown, but they seem to have stopped now.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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I am amazed that you haven't done so! 😂, I think I would have been tearing it open about 22 years ago
Pross
Senior Member
It doesn’t look very interesting to be honest. If I’ve been returning cash payments all these years I’ll be more than trivially annoyed
briantrumpet
Squire
I got several bits of mail from one company addressed to the previous occupant, over several years, despite returning them to sender with a note. I once 'accidentally' opened one of the envelopes, and it was telling her that there was a fairly trivial amount of money in some insurance account, but as she had done a runner by putting the key of the house back through the letterbox having defaulted on her mortgage (I knew it was a repossession when I bought it, in 1992), I guessed she'd not given them a forwarding address either, like her creditors.
briantrumpet
Squire
Some xenophobic winkers have adorned all the lampposts along a major Exeter road - the outer bypass, with a footbridge that boldly says "Welcome to Exeter" - with sodding flags, which are intended to say the opposite of "Welcome to Exeter". They've gone to a lot of trouble, as they are proper tall lampposts, and they've put the flags right up by the lamps.
I'd have been pissed off enough just if they were being xenophobes, but by putting them right up by the lamps, there are now massive fluttering shadows at night on an extremely busy road. I can only assume that the raging xenophobes want people to hate the England and UK flags, by misappropriating them for xenophobia.
Goodness knows how they've got so many up, so high, without getting apprehended for illegal additions to state infrastructure.
I'd have been pissed off enough just if they were being xenophobes, but by putting them right up by the lamps, there are now massive fluttering shadows at night on an extremely busy road. I can only assume that the raging xenophobes want people to hate the England and UK flags, by misappropriating them for xenophobia.
Goodness knows how they've got so many up, so high, without getting apprehended for illegal additions to state infrastructure.
secretsqirrel
Well-Known Member
Pross
Senior Member
Oh wow. I guess conditions in Santa land have improved somewhat.
Yeah they’ve had several heavy snowfalls and it was -25 today. They start having visitors Thursday so start work properly but they then have to stay in their accommodation whenever they aren’t working to avoid being seen and spoiling the magic so will get a bit boring for them.
OP
OP
First Aspect
Veteran
Lots of September babies in Lapland.
