Erp! Gulp!
I learned last night that it pays, literally, to open every envelope from Oregon State University.
I was almost ready to hit the sack around 9 pm, waiting for the wash to finish drying so I could put the last load in the drier and go to bed. I began sorting through a pile of envelopes, and happened to note some envelopes addressed to the Draft Horse Club, c/o Claire Varney. I get a lot of those, and usually they are a sort of account statement saying how much money we own as a club. That is uninteresting, and I rarely open the statements. Hmmm... well, there were a couple envelopes looking deceptively like those "account statement" envelopes, but, alas, they were from Student Debt Management (er, the Collections Office) and Student Financial Services (or some such places). I opened the former, and, lo, a charge of ~$1000 to the Draft Horse Club for some medical expenses for our draft horse. Gulp. I knew of a $16 expense, but not this grand-large bill. What's more, the first envelope bearing the news of this expense was sent over a month ago, and more recently the charge had been submitted to the Collections Department and I wouldn't be allowed to register for my spring classes until the money was paid in full and they might deduct money from my Oregon Tax Refund (Erp! Gulp!) and they might even get outside help or something to wrest the money from my grasp. Help my bones, and all along my club has a goodly stash of money laid aside to pay for such and I didn't know it needed to be paid. Clearly, it wasn't really OSU's fault... but why can't they just deduct the money from the Draft Horse Club account?
I dealt with the situation at lunch break.
Why is it that the unimportant envelopes like credit card offers I don't need, and cell phone deals I don't want -- why is it that they bear sayings like "Dated Material," "Open Now," bla, bla bla? And the actually important envelopes like bills that need to be paid, and charges made to my club, and other things that start accruing interest if they are not dealt with -- and those important envelopes appear innocently white, suggesting no hint of the doom awaiting inside, or the even greater doom if they are not opened for weeks?
I will never trust an innocent-looking envelope again!
I was almost ready to hit the sack around 9 pm, waiting for the wash to finish drying so I could put the last load in the drier and go to bed. I began sorting through a pile of envelopes, and happened to note some envelopes addressed to the Draft Horse Club, c/o Claire Varney. I get a lot of those, and usually they are a sort of account statement saying how much money we own as a club. That is uninteresting, and I rarely open the statements. Hmmm... well, there were a couple envelopes looking deceptively like those "account statement" envelopes, but, alas, they were from Student Debt Management (er, the Collections Office) and Student Financial Services (or some such places). I opened the former, and, lo, a charge of ~$1000 to the Draft Horse Club for some medical expenses for our draft horse. Gulp. I knew of a $16 expense, but not this grand-large bill. What's more, the first envelope bearing the news of this expense was sent over a month ago, and more recently the charge had been submitted to the Collections Department and I wouldn't be allowed to register for my spring classes until the money was paid in full and they might deduct money from my Oregon Tax Refund (Erp! Gulp!) and they might even get outside help or something to wrest the money from my grasp. Help my bones, and all along my club has a goodly stash of money laid aside to pay for such and I didn't know it needed to be paid. Clearly, it wasn't really OSU's fault... but why can't they just deduct the money from the Draft Horse Club account?
I dealt with the situation at lunch break.
Why is it that the unimportant envelopes like credit card offers I don't need, and cell phone deals I don't want -- why is it that they bear sayings like "Dated Material," "Open Now," bla, bla bla? And the actually important envelopes like bills that need to be paid, and charges made to my club, and other things that start accruing interest if they are not dealt with -- and those important envelopes appear innocently white, suggesting no hint of the doom awaiting inside, or the even greater doom if they are not opened for weeks?
I will never trust an innocent-looking envelope again!
posted by Claire at 18:17
1 Comments:
I guess now you know which ones to open and which ones not to!
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