Online banking has made it easy to track payments/checks.
Out fox the foxes!

> On Jun 10, 2024, at 11:16 AM, RAandBOB <raand...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Recently, we sent money and a birthday card to our grandson in Alabama. The 
> card arrived with no money inside. Upon careful examination, we noticed at 
> the bottom of the envelope had been carefully cut open, and then resealed 
> with invisible tape. We always mail cards with money into the slot inside the 
> post office, so we think this was probably an inside job somewhere along the 
> route. 
> 
> Ruth Ann
> (She, her, hers)
> 
>> On Jun 10, 2024, at 10:29 AM, DJCP <djcp0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I had that happen a few years ago and then read in the squirrel that someone 
>> was stealing mail from the post office drop box behind the building. I did 
>> have someone try and cash a fraudulent check before the scheme was 
>> discovered. The post office has since removed that drop box and changed the 
>> one in front to one that's presumably harder to tamper with. But maybe 
>> there's a new scheme? 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 10:21 AM RAandBOB <raand...@earthlink.net 
>> <mailto:raand...@earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>> Yes, many times. One time it was the property tax payment. I wound up 
>>> having to pay $120 penalty for a late payment.🙄
>>> 
>>> Ruth Ann
>>> (She, her, hers)
>>> 
>>> > On Jun 10, 2024, at 10:18 AM, Peter von Mertens 
>>> > <petervonmert...@gmail.com <mailto:petervonmert...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > Yesterday I received notice from a tradesman that I had not paid them.  
>>> > But when I looked at my records I noticed I had sent them a check in 
>>> > early May.  This is the second time this spring that a check that I think 
>>> > I mailed has gone missing.   And after watching "Mr Bates vs the Post 
>>> > Office" on PBS ( a true story about how a computer system in Great 
>>> > Britain robs hundreds of local post masters of their wealth and lives )  
>>> > I wonder if others have experienced that same problem, i.e. a check 
>>> > getting lost in the mail?
>>> > 
>>> > Peace Peter
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