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File under the heading of 'nothing can ever be easy' -
Almost a year ago Eor became the president of our very tiny condo association - five units - and the previous president forwarded all the condo association official mail - bills and such - to our unit. Easy enough, you might say, only we vote on a new president each year, and Eor is going to refuse to take the mantle again because it's a thankless job with a lot of work that really ought to be named 'Father' (especially when he's thought he's broken up squabbles between the other owners and then they start pinching and poking each other again), so THAT means that all the bills will have to be forwarded again and again. So, I think I may have mentioned, I had this bright idea to forward all the bills to the extra mailbox (Units used to be 2 and 2B, to allow for subletting) and then we could just pass around the key when the mantle of 'Father' changes.
Still with me? Now, cast your mind back. The previous president lived in Unit 2, and Eor and I are in Unit 1, so when PrevPrez moved out he had forwarded all the bills to us, in 1, and now we forwarded them to 2B. Something strange happened, here, and suddenly PrevPrez started getting some of the condo association bills at his new home. So I went up to the Post Office to have a chat with them as to why this would have happened. Explained it all to a very nice man. He left me a phone message a few days later saying, "It's all sorted out. It's just that you had your address wrong - it's not 2B, it's 2." No no no. I went back up and got a very nice woman who ended up running back and forth trying to explain what I was saying to someone out back, until finally he came out shaking and turning purple - "It CAN'T be 2B, 2B doesn't exist! There is no such unit! It doesn't matter how many mailboxes there are, there are only five units!" Poor guy, I almost started laughing in his face. I said we could call it whatever he wanted, but we couldn't have the bills going to mailboxes attached to where people actually live, this was like an office. And then I started talking him down and asking him how we could make this work, and eventually he looked like he might not drop dead right that moment. ;) He said that they get the information in their data base from the city Assessor's office and I would have to talk to them.
Today I went to the Assessor's office, and night/day? I walked right in, started to explain the issue, and he grasped it immediately, and said quite cheerfully, "We're going to fix this right now." He mused and we chatted, and then he wrote me a letter saying he was officially recognizing #6 as the 'office' for the building, and gave me two copies of the letter, one to take up to the Post Office and one to photocopy for all the companies we use for services, and I found out later he even emailed me a copy as well. Honestly, if he's running for office he's got my vote, because I can't think of anything else I could do for him.
The only issue remaining is that the mailboxes are all nicely lined up at the moment... 2B is the third mailbox and there's no #6, so we're going to have to relabel all of them and then trade keys all along the line until we end up with the key to the one which is now #5 and will be #6. And this has to happen as quickly as possible - I mean, once I start it has to go mostly in one day, before there's time for the mail to come and be all disrupted.
Oh, and Eor just set the box I'm going to send to my Mom out on the counter, saying, "Put this in the car tomorrow and then take that letter along, too, and you can stop on your way home and kill two birds with one stone. Or one postal worker."
"With a single well-placed word? 'Hi!'"
And in other news; people in Maine will take almost anything you leave out on the curb, so long as it says 'Free' on it.* They won't touch it if there's no sign, maybe because they think it might be meant for someone else. I left a door out their for days and no movement until I put the Free sign up, but I had balked at doing the sign because they always take the sign, too, meaning I have to make a new one each time. Today I put an old desk out and it was gone in a matter of a couple hours. The 'free' sign was left on the grass. I think they've caught on that they're likely to get more if they leave me the sign. ;) Either that or they think they're training me? I wonder if I'm furnishing someone's apartment? :)
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*Almost anything. There's a pretty large boat that has 'free' spray painted in pink on the side, by Route 1 - that's not moving.
Almost a year ago Eor became the president of our very tiny condo association - five units - and the previous president forwarded all the condo association official mail - bills and such - to our unit. Easy enough, you might say, only we vote on a new president each year, and Eor is going to refuse to take the mantle again because it's a thankless job with a lot of work that really ought to be named 'Father' (especially when he's thought he's broken up squabbles between the other owners and then they start pinching and poking each other again), so THAT means that all the bills will have to be forwarded again and again. So, I think I may have mentioned, I had this bright idea to forward all the bills to the extra mailbox (Units used to be 2 and 2B, to allow for subletting) and then we could just pass around the key when the mantle of 'Father' changes.
Still with me? Now, cast your mind back. The previous president lived in Unit 2, and Eor and I are in Unit 1, so when PrevPrez moved out he had forwarded all the bills to us, in 1, and now we forwarded them to 2B. Something strange happened, here, and suddenly PrevPrez started getting some of the condo association bills at his new home. So I went up to the Post Office to have a chat with them as to why this would have happened. Explained it all to a very nice man. He left me a phone message a few days later saying, "It's all sorted out. It's just that you had your address wrong - it's not 2B, it's 2." No no no. I went back up and got a very nice woman who ended up running back and forth trying to explain what I was saying to someone out back, until finally he came out shaking and turning purple - "It CAN'T be 2B, 2B doesn't exist! There is no such unit! It doesn't matter how many mailboxes there are, there are only five units!" Poor guy, I almost started laughing in his face. I said we could call it whatever he wanted, but we couldn't have the bills going to mailboxes attached to where people actually live, this was like an office. And then I started talking him down and asking him how we could make this work, and eventually he looked like he might not drop dead right that moment. ;) He said that they get the information in their data base from the city Assessor's office and I would have to talk to them.
Today I went to the Assessor's office, and night/day? I walked right in, started to explain the issue, and he grasped it immediately, and said quite cheerfully, "We're going to fix this right now." He mused and we chatted, and then he wrote me a letter saying he was officially recognizing #6 as the 'office' for the building, and gave me two copies of the letter, one to take up to the Post Office and one to photocopy for all the companies we use for services, and I found out later he even emailed me a copy as well. Honestly, if he's running for office he's got my vote, because I can't think of anything else I could do for him.
The only issue remaining is that the mailboxes are all nicely lined up at the moment... 2B is the third mailbox and there's no #6, so we're going to have to relabel all of them and then trade keys all along the line until we end up with the key to the one which is now #5 and will be #6. And this has to happen as quickly as possible - I mean, once I start it has to go mostly in one day, before there's time for the mail to come and be all disrupted.
Oh, and Eor just set the box I'm going to send to my Mom out on the counter, saying, "Put this in the car tomorrow and then take that letter along, too, and you can stop on your way home and kill two birds with one stone. Or one postal worker."
"With a single well-placed word? 'Hi!'"
And in other news; people in Maine will take almost anything you leave out on the curb, so long as it says 'Free' on it.* They won't touch it if there's no sign, maybe because they think it might be meant for someone else. I left a door out their for days and no movement until I put the Free sign up, but I had balked at doing the sign because they always take the sign, too, meaning I have to make a new one each time. Today I put an old desk out and it was gone in a matter of a couple hours. The 'free' sign was left on the grass. I think they've caught on that they're likely to get more if they leave me the sign. ;) Either that or they think they're training me? I wonder if I'm furnishing someone's apartment? :)
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*Almost anything. There's a pretty large boat that has 'free' spray painted in pink on the side, by Route 1 - that's not moving.
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