Efficiency or Stupidity?

I have an opposite yet similar minor issue. Apparently due to some poor accounting I was deprived of $1 in super. Now I get sent yearly a letter telling me about my $1 (in big bold print) and to transfer it to another fund. The problem is I’ve already wasted $1 of my time reading and opening the letter. The hassle required to get the dollar mopved alkso requires certified copies of documents etc.

I rang and said can they just stop wasting my time and theirs and either donate that $1 or get rid of it somehow. I was told the only thing they can do is transfer it to another super fund, however I need to prove who I am, which requires alot of effort on my part, so I said no thanks, you just keep sending me an annual letter instead.

Holden Caulfield said :

There’s the $0.00 invoice story from a number of years ago. Pretty hard to top that, and its consequences, I’d reckon.

That was my afternoon giggle…

EvanJames said :

LHPA have got desperate since they were prevented from scamming money off people on small residential blocks. World’s most useless body, try getting help off them for ANYTHING and good luck with that. Or try emailing them and find that you have to be on their white list for your email to get through! They’re rubbish.

Maybe you could sticky-tape your coins to the notice, and post it back?

Love the idea .. can you image the face of the poor chump who opens the mail! Good luck finding a 2 cent piece!

bigfeet said :

I would stick a dollar coin to the invoice and mail it back. Include a note saying that you would like the change donated to a registered charity (of their choice) but that for tax purposes, you would like a receipt for the account AND for the charity mailed back to you.

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Gold!

I would stick a dollar coin to the invoice and mail it back. Include a note saying that you would like the change donated to a registered charity (of their choice) but that for tax purposes, you would like a receipt for the account AND for the charity mailed back to you.

The efficiency probably lies in having one automated system to automatically generate and send out invoices, regardless of the amount.

Holden Caulfield said :

There’s the $0.00 invoice story from a number of years ago. Pretty hard to top that, and its consequences, I’d reckon.

This is what happens when we let the computers think they’re smarter than us .. though in some cases they clearer are.

There’s the $0.00 invoice story from a number of years ago. Pretty hard to top that, and its consequences, I’d reckon.

For 37 months before Telstra was finally privatized, I received a monthly bill for 22 cents. I had a 2 cent coin, but the Telstra shops refused to accept it. Couldn’t pay by credit card, and they told me a cheque would be unacceptable and a payment of 25c could not be contemplated as i would then receive credit statements for 3c.

When the mexican finally took over, the 22c bills stopped. I am eternally grateful to him for this (but nothing else).

When OneTel went belly up, I owed $0.87 to OneNet. Due to an error in their systems, the first two invoices went astray. Eventually, the administrators contacted me by phone, and asked why I hadn’t paid. After much discussion, the address error was discovered, and we all had a good laugh. Three days later, I received a letter of intent declaring that I would be summonsed if I didn’t pay the bill. One cheque sent, and they were happy.

LHPA have got desperate since they were prevented from scamming money off people on small residential blocks. World’s most useless body, try getting help off them for ANYTHING and good luck with that. Or try emailing them and find that you have to be on their white list for your email to get through! They’re rubbish.

Maybe you could sticky-tape your coins to the notice, and post it back?