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Over the President's Day (Feb 15) weekend the KY Legislature was not in session on that Monday, so Rita and I did not leave for the Capitol until 6 AM on Tuesday.
On that Saturday I wrote checks for numerous bills that had come in since the previous weekend and stupidly put them in the rural mailbox with the red flag raised. For most of the bills I used my official stationary envelopes (which I personally pay for), but used providor enveloopes for two of the bill payments.
Last weekend I received a bill from AT&T Yellow Pages for my corporate Yellow Pages ad and the bill was for 2 months, complaining that I was late with the February bill. Knowing that I had paid it, I looked at the business checkbook stubs, and sure enough there it was. Since the bank statement had come in I double checked to see if the check had cleared. Horror!! Rather than $61.42 the check was listed to Wal Mart for $686.33. Thinking that perhaps I had made a mistake in posting I looked at the date, and the date the check had been presented at the cashier stand I was in the state Capitol.
Next I opened my campaign account checing account statement, and the one check I had written this year for something over $600 for campaign pens (getting ready for the November election) was listed as Wal Mart for $131.22.
Fortunately my bank is open on Saturday mornings, and as luck would have it, the Assistant VP who also handles bank security was working (he is a loan officer: Small town bank). He took my statement, the copies of the check listings that I had made, and filled out his report.
Next I went to the local Wal Mart and, luck again, the store security lady was working that Saturday. She took the check copies which I had made, and the notes that I had written explaining and outlining the sequence of events (not expecting the head of security to be working on Saturday).
Next, the Murray PD where a Sergeant took my statement and filled out a report.
I figured that I had just paid out something over $700 in tuition to the school of life/hard knocks and had learned that I should henceforth take all my bills to the U. S. Post Office for mailing. The thought also occurred to me that I had been fortunate in that the theif obviously thought the bills in my personal stationary envelopes were just correspondence and thus left them in the mailbox, taking only the two in the providor envelopes.
Much to my surprise, the Detective assigned to the case called me yesterday to report that the bank had assumed the loss, putting the funds back in my accounts, and that the bank would be the agrieved party. He indicated that the two Wal Mart stores (both over the state line in two different, but nearby, Tennessee towns) involved were reviewing video security tapes, cash register records, etc. and that it should be possible to find the guilty party.
In any case, tuition or not, I will henceforth take my bills to the post office for mailing!!
On that Saturday I wrote checks for numerous bills that had come in since the previous weekend and stupidly put them in the rural mailbox with the red flag raised. For most of the bills I used my official stationary envelopes (which I personally pay for), but used providor enveloopes for two of the bill payments.
Last weekend I received a bill from AT&T Yellow Pages for my corporate Yellow Pages ad and the bill was for 2 months, complaining that I was late with the February bill. Knowing that I had paid it, I looked at the business checkbook stubs, and sure enough there it was. Since the bank statement had come in I double checked to see if the check had cleared. Horror!! Rather than $61.42 the check was listed to Wal Mart for $686.33. Thinking that perhaps I had made a mistake in posting I looked at the date, and the date the check had been presented at the cashier stand I was in the state Capitol.
Next I opened my campaign account checing account statement, and the one check I had written this year for something over $600 for campaign pens (getting ready for the November election) was listed as Wal Mart for $131.22.
Fortunately my bank is open on Saturday mornings, and as luck would have it, the Assistant VP who also handles bank security was working (he is a loan officer: Small town bank). He took my statement, the copies of the check listings that I had made, and filled out his report.
Next I went to the local Wal Mart and, luck again, the store security lady was working that Saturday. She took the check copies which I had made, and the notes that I had written explaining and outlining the sequence of events (not expecting the head of security to be working on Saturday).
Next, the Murray PD where a Sergeant took my statement and filled out a report.
I figured that I had just paid out something over $700 in tuition to the school of life/hard knocks and had learned that I should henceforth take all my bills to the U. S. Post Office for mailing. The thought also occurred to me that I had been fortunate in that the theif obviously thought the bills in my personal stationary envelopes were just correspondence and thus left them in the mailbox, taking only the two in the providor envelopes.
Much to my surprise, the Detective assigned to the case called me yesterday to report that the bank had assumed the loss, putting the funds back in my accounts, and that the bank would be the agrieved party. He indicated that the two Wal Mart stores (both over the state line in two different, but nearby, Tennessee towns) involved were reviewing video security tapes, cash register records, etc. and that it should be possible to find the guilty party.
In any case, tuition or not, I will henceforth take my bills to the post office for mailing!!
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