Tony De Vit

Post: #1 (ID: 770)

This could lead to the collapse of society as we know it…. But it would
be due justice!

Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by a
96-year-old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it
published in the New York Times.

Dear Sir:

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored
to pay my plumber last month.
By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his
presenting the check and the arrival in my account of the funds needed
to honor it.

I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire
salary, an arrange-ment, which I admit, has been in place for only eight
years.

You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity,
and also for debiting my account $30 by way of penalty for the
inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has
caused me to rethink my errant financial ways.

I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and
letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal,
overcharging, prerecorded, faceless entity, that your bank has become.

From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood
person. My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore and hereafter no
longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed
personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must
nominate.

Be aware that it is an offense under the Postal Act for any other person
to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contact
Status, which I require your chosen employee to complete.

I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much
about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative.

Please note that a Notary Public must countersign all copies of his or
her medical history, and the mandatory details of his/her financial
situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by
documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number, which
he/she must quote in dealings with me.

I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have
modeled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my
account balance on your phone bank service.

As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further.

When you call me, press buttons as follows:
1. To make an appointment to see me
2. To query a missing payment.
3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4. To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home
7. To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer
is required.

Password will be communicated to you at a later date to the
Authorized Contact.
8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7.
9. To make a general complaint or inquiry. The contact will then be put
on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While
this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play
for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an
establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous New Year?

Your Humble Client

(Remember: This was written by a 96-year-old woman)

Post: #2 (ID: 771)

Look out!! Grannies on the rampage!
Seriously though i'm writing a letter to my bank right now.
It starts:

Dear sir:

I am writing to thank you for............... Praise you!

Post: #3 (ID: 772)

It is funny!

However, when I read the first bit "This is an actual...." alarm bells rang...

"These quotes were in actual exam papers....."

"These comments are from actual insurance claims"

etc.

usually mean they AREN'T.

So, I googled, and yep, it's a fake.. Sorry!

See: http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/takethat.asp

Post: #4 (ID: 774)

yeah they usually are, but they do make me chuckle!

Post: #5 (ID: 776)

Sorry to have acted like the person "always in the kitchen at parties" -- I'll be good now Smile

Post: #6 (ID: 779)

he he!

Post: #7 (ID: 905)

how funny, I might have to save that and send it to HSBC...

the bunch of criminals Angry / Fuming