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The sad, sometimes costly saga of late mail continues to dog readers both in Virginia and around the country. Yet another whoâs experienced it personally is Herb Detweiler of Roanoke.
âYou can add my experience to your long list of sabotaged mail,â he wrote me Feb. 9. âI sent the water company a check for $38.19 on December 28. It never cleared and I had to send a check for $82 to cover December and January last month.
âGuess what? The December check finally cleared today! It only took almost six weeks to go to Greensboro and back to wherever water checks go!â
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Little did I realize Thursdayâs column about slow Christmas mail was like kicking a hornetsâ nest. More than four dozen readers responded, dishing nearly 6,000 words about recent postal woes, including utility, car, mortgage and credit card payments that never made it on time.
Some folksâ bills didnât arrive until after their due dates. Thereâs hardly space to fit all of the stories in this column, but weâll do our best.
âI live in north Roanoke County,â wrote
Eleanor Bishop. âHave never paid a bill late. Mailed check for my water bill on Dec. 28, 2020. Check has never cleared. Received new bill [Jan. 23] with a past due amount and late fee of $4.14. I guess itâs no more stamps for me.â
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