Thursday, April 23, 2009

The reason it's called "Not the Long Beach Handy Man"

Err... At our old apartment complex in Long Beach we had a mail lady. She wasn't so good at her job. She often didn't put the correct mail in the correct slots. We often got other people's mail and they often got ours.

One day we got a bill from a well known paper in Long Beach. We put it back in the box since it had a different address on it. Later on we another letter from them again to the Long Beach Handy Man but at our apartment address. We wrote on it, "not at this address, cease and assist" and put it back for our mail lady. We got another one. We wrote on it again and put it back for our mail lady. Apparently she thought we were the Long Beach Handy Man since our last name is Handy.

We moved from that apartment back in September 2008. The mail from well known paper in Long Beach followed us! This was getting ridiculous. I opened it to find that it was a bill to the Long Beach Handy Man for posting an ad in the paper. Mike called the number on the bill and left a message for them explaining it was not us and that it had followed us by error. No return call.

We got another one. I called and spoke with the account Rep. Nice lady, felt bad that the confusion had happened and said she would take care of it.

We got another one a month later. I called and left Linda a message. Not return call.

We got another one and one more. 

Today the Long Beach Handy Man got a collections letter at our address! Err....he doesn't live here! I called the collections agency and explained how this mail started stalking us and how we thought it was taken care of a couple months ago and that our phone messages stopped getting returned. The lady was nice, said she would remove us from the list and advised I call the well known paper in Long Beach again but this time she gave me the extension for the supervisor that had turned it over to the collection agency. 

I called her and of course, she was away from her desk. I left her a nice long message. I really hope she returns my call. :)

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