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  • #1

    Are you brighter than my bank?

    Not sure where this lives-I think here's best for it.
    Now boys and girls you can use your brains to work out this one.

    This is the letter the bank printed off for me at the branch and insisted they sent to me.

    Can you spot why I don't believe them? *


    *Ignoring the blue splodges because I don't want hilarious peoples using my bank details to set up subscriptions to rodent porn or the like....
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    Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
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    • #3
      I can't read most of it, even the parts that aren't blue'd out. What does it say?
      “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
      One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
      The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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      • #4
        ...I don't get it...

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        • #5
          How could they mail it to you without printing your address?

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          • #6
            Gm, I think you solved it! Can't believe I missed that x.x
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            • #7
              The address could be printed on the outside of the envelope. Where the postman could read it...

              I don't see anything wrong--or right--with the note. If the boxes hold information that is actually something they should communicate with you, then it would seem to be appropriate.

              .....I'm obviously not smarter than the bank....
              “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
              One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
              The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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              • #8
                Every business letter I have even seen has the address printed on the letter itself. And the letters I get from my bank use window envelopes.
                "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                • #9
                  I'm usually reading after work plus commute (away from home 14 hrs/day most work days), so tend to be a bit brain-fried. I thought the problem was that after all the justified redactions, there was just about no actual content.
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                  • #10
                    IA - Same here. Setting them up that way is standard practice even if the letter is NOT going to be sent via window envelope.
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                    • #11
                      It may be standard practice, but it is not required for the correct functioning of the missive. So it may be a little unusual, but I don't see anything wrong...

                      Though, as I said, I may not be smarter than the bank is.
                      “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
                      One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
                      The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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                      • #12
                        At my last office job, any letter that came in from a business, if it was not properly formatted was filed in the circular file under the desk. Proper formatting includes the address on the letter itself, even if it did not come in a window envelope. Of course letters from clients were allowed to be formatted any way they wanted, even written in crayon, but the thinking of our organization was that all legitimate businesses would use proper formatting.

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