It's Hard To Believe
The long awaited personal check blanks finally arrived yesterday. The order was first entered at a Bank of America local branch in person 10 days before Christmas last year, AD 2004. It was promised that we could pick them up at that office after 10 work days. My son and I went there for them in January after the New Year holidays and found the letter “T” was missing in my address in “Taiwan”. It was assured that corrected ones will be there in a week’s time. We called after good 10 days and the person who took the phone said that they could not find them but would check with the person responsible and call us back. But there was no call . We went there again and met with the manager and he reordered them for me and said that the blank checks will be sent via FedEx and will be awaiting me when I got back to Taiwan on January 18th. But I never got them. Meanwhile, I received a monthly statement from this same bank . To my horror, after scraching the Zip Code for my address in Taiwan, they added “China (PRC) 00000″. With that address, it will be or certainly be sent to CHINA in the first place! So I have to trouble my son to go to the bank to inquire about the blank checks ordered and make correction for a right address. My son made an appointment and found out at the bank that the blanks had the address of the branch instead of mine and were sent to that branch bank. In front of my son, Jane, at the office, reentered the order for blanks and repeated line by line with printer for correct address. She also entered correction for their mailing record and assured that “China (PRC) 00000″ will be dropped in the future. The amazing thing is that there is no “Taiwan” on the blanks I got finally almost after more than two months time and mistakes, and, on the monthly statement which just arrived still has that nasty “China (PRC) 00000″ . The address has not been corrected. While in the States, I have also notified the Board of Pensions of the Church my new address in Taiwan. I received a letter yesterday from it for verification of the address change. It is addressed, after my correct Taiwan address, an additional line,”Taiwan, Province of China”. Can you believe all this that happened?