posted on Nov, 18 2008 @ 02:56 PM
One year I found out that I had two shares of stock in a company I had worked for many, many years ago. I had received them as a stock options bonus
but had long since forgotten about them. Curious, and wanting perhaps to sell them, I got in touch with the company and updated them with my new
address and married name.
A few months later I received a huge pile of envelopes in the mail. Each paper envelope contained a separately printed check for 32 cents. These were
my quarterly dividends for the past who knows how many years. Each envelope and the postage required to mail it was worth more than the check inside.
Incredible. How many trees died for that one gigantic mailing? What an incredible waste of corporate resources. No wonder these big corporations are
all going bankrupt.
Sometimes automated bill-and-mail systems are ridiculous.