Idiot Sighting

[krolik]

I'm a UPS driver & you'd be surprised by how many people ask me if they can pick up their packages at the post office if they're not home or if I have their package and they show me a USPS delivery notice.

Then they get miffed when I tell them I don't work for the Post Office.


Well, maybe you wouldn't be surprised.

[MendoDave]

I'm a UPS driver & you'd be surprised by how many people ask me if they can pick up their packages at the post office if they're not home or if I have their package and they show me a USPS delivery notice.

Then they get miffed when I tell them I don't work for the Post Office.


Well, maybe you wouldn't be surprised.

So can you let me know when this arrives.

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction!input.action?tLabels=9405503699300330639085

[DRKWNG]

It's only off by one letter.  How much difference could that make?

[jaxduc]

Today I looked in the mirror (idiot sighting)

[Pedro-bot]

Not so much of a sighting, but an identification nonetheless.

About a month ago, get a hospital bill from my daughter's stay.
This is about the 5th or 6th hospital/doctor's bill, and none are detailed.  

My wife calls and asks what the bill is for.
Lady on the other end rudely tells her it's "a bill. can you pay it? We take cc's or cks by phone."

Without specifics my wife declines paying. Tells the lady to send her an itemized bill.
Lady says fine and hangs up on my wife without notice.  

My wife pulls out previous bills we've paid for and notices the same amount quoted to her, $700 odd dollars, is the same on a previous bill marked, PAID.

Hmmm..., my wife calls back and asks for the same person.
My wife tells her what she has. Quotes her the date it was paid and the check number used, with online banking showing the check as tendered.

Lady says, "Oh ok. I'll mark the balance as zero. It must be a glitch in our system. We just switched billing programs."  

So my wife asks her what would have happened if she had simply paid, could she have expected for someone to notice the "glitch" and call her back with her refund. Obviously it was a rhetorical question.

Service person says, "Oh of course."



The bills come in so vague I think they purposely make them that way to keep people paying.
I swear even the original bill itself wasn't clear on what the primary insurance paid or what was left for secondary. Craziness.