Thursday, October 9, 2008

Paper Issues

I have been receiving in the mail alot of pieces of paper that have detachable parts. I'm supposed to write the name of the piece of paper, as well as a number on a smaller piece of paper. Then, I'm supposed tear off the detachable piece of paper and stick it in an envelope with my smaller piece of paper and mail it back to where the original piece of paper came from.

Once a month, the bank sends me a piece of paper that contains all the numbers I wrote on smaller pieces of paper the month prior, as well as a big number that shows me what numbers I'm allowed to write on my small pieces of paper.

I've been really stressed out lately, because I keep getting these pieces of paper with the detachable parts in the mail that want me to write a certain number on my small piece of paper. The problem is, the piece of paper from the bank will not allow me to write those numbers on my small piece of paper.

Sometimes I write a different number on the small piece of paper and send that in with the detached piece of paper. Then, I get in the mail a piece of paper that asks me for another small piece of paper with numbers written on it.

Other times, the bank will not allow me to write any numbers at all on my small piece of paper. So, I don't send the detached piece of paper back. When that happens, I get another piece of paper in the mail that tells me that I forgot to mail in the last small piece of paper and they're willing to work with me to send them another small piece of paper.

In order to remedy this situation, I have been working in exchange for small pieces of paper with numbers on it. I mail these small pieces of paper in to the bank with another piece of paper that tells them to make sure I get these numbers on my piece of paper the bank sends me once a month.

The result is that sometimes I get the numbers that I need on my piece of paper from the bank to be able to write the correct numbers on my small piece of papers to send back with the detached pieces of paper where they came from.

However, I have had so many detached pieces of paper mailed to me, that I could not keep up. So, I went to another bank to see if they can help me with this. This bank said that if I provide them with all the pieces of paper that the other bank has sent me once a month for the past two years, as well as all the pieces of papers with detached parts that I can't send a small piece of paper with numbers on it, they may be able to help me.

So I gathered all my pieces of paper, and this new bank said that they will send with each one of these detached pieces of paper their own small piece of paper with numbers on it. This will stop all these detached pieces of paper coming to me in the mail. The bank is going to send me their own piece of paper with a detachable part to me every month. So now, I only have one small piece of paper every month that I am supposed to write and include with a detachable piece of paper.

If I do not miss sending my small piece of paper in every month I get rewarded with a number that tells me if I can go to the bank and have them write small pieces of paper in with detachable parts for me, in exchange for the bank sending me their own piece of paper with a detachable part.

If I stop sending small pieces of paper to the bank, I will get a whole lot of mail telling me to send that piece of paper with numbers written on it. If I let it go too long, the mail will be over-whelming. It will force me to go to a government building and ask for a whole lot of pieces of paper that I have to fill out that say I might not have to send them more small pieces of paper, as long as I promise to send small pieces of paper to certain pieces of paper with detachable parts. If I do this, my reward number will say that no bank will ever write any small pieces of paper for me for the next 7 years.

So my best option is to continue working for small pieces of paper, and maybe one day I'll get a small piece of paper that has a really big number written on it that I can send to my bank and write a whole bunch of small pieces of paper to each piece of paper I get in the mail.

Then, everything will be great!

3 comments:

Cheryl said...

I really do not like the detachable pieces of paper. Especially when I have to include a small piece of paper along with their detachable paper back to them.

Amber said...

If I had a dollar for every time you wrote "piece of paper".......

masonsjax said...

Be careful with consolidating all the detachable papers into a single detachable paper. Although it may be nice to only write one small paper with big numbers on it, the risk exists that if you get too far behind in mailing the single piece of paper with the detachable piece of paper, the single bank then owns ALL of the items represented by the previously separate pieces of paper, rather than you having the option to choose which items/papers to give up.