Hitting the USPS today:
September 21, 2009
Ms. Lucinda M. Babers
Director, Department of Motor Vehicles
Government of the District of Columbia
PO Box 90120
Washington, DC 20090Re: Citation #543436103, 9/7/01
Dear Ms. Babers:
Thank you very much for your letter dated September 18, 2009. I know you’re very busy and I appreciate your responding directly to my September 12 letter addressed to the DC Treasurer.
In response to your kind invitation, I am enclosing a copy of check #580 dated October 22, 2001, in the amount of $45.00, cashed by the DC Treasurer on November 30, 2001. My recollection is that we did not pay the citation immediately, but did remit promptly upon receiving the second notice plus the corresponding fine, which increased the total due to $45.00.
Your letter stated that the DMV processed a check in response to the above-mentioned citation for $15 from me on October 1, 2001, but based on my records, I’m not sure that either the amount or the date is accurate. I am convinced now more than ever that this multi-year misunderstanding is the result of a simple human error.
As I stated in my numerous previous attempts to correct this mistake, while we did not write the citation number on the check, we did enclose the remittance slip in the same envelope when we sent you the check. Because the DMV accepted this money and has been in possession of it for eight years, I trust that this letter will finally prove that we paid the citation in full at the time it was due.
Again, I am most appreciative of the time you took to respond to me, and I accept your gracious apology for the inconvenience this matter has caused me. I trust that you are sufficiently empowered to fix this situation immediately before it escalates any further. I have taken the liberty of copying Mayor Fenty and Mr. Gandhi on this letter so that they may be kept abreast of this situation.
Enclosures: Copy (front and back) of check #580 for $45.00, 10-22-2001
Copy of 9/18/09 letter from Ms. BabersCc: Adrian Fenty, Mayor, District of Columbia
Natwar M. Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia
Filed under: cause and effect, city life, DC, letters Tagged: | DC DMV, DC Treasurer, Lucinda Babers, Mayor Adrian Fenty, Natwar Gandhi, parking citation
Oh, that’s good. I can nearly feel the honeyed sarcasm drip. What? It wasn’t sarcasm? Oh, so sorry.
“so that they may be kept abreast of this situation” LMAO
Well, you do have a Gandhi for a CFO. Maybe he’ll see the light….
I would so love to get a response from him!
man that’s a good letter. Can I hire you next time I need something like that written? I stink at those, can’t find the balance on sarcasm & flat out yelling.
Ptooie, thanks, I do write a pretty good letter, if I do say so myself. This dates back to the early 1990s – I was trying to shop at Crate & Barrel, or maybe I was trying to register, or buy someone else a wedding present – anyway, the clerk was behind the counter gabbing on the phone and couldn’t be bothered to really help me (skyooze me??) , and I went ballistic and wrote a letter and they sent me a big ole gift certificate! My goals with the DMV are modest – just TO MAKE IT STOP ALREADY, but let’s just say, I have lots of practice. And I am persistent. Stay tuned…
Does this Babe-ers work at Hooters, by any chance? All this talk of keeping a breast is making me think so.
Your patience is admirable. I’d have gone PFL by now. (Plum f*@%ing loco.)
You are crackin’ me up, CBW!
“Tufferin” totally using that.
I didn’t invent it, but I stole it (with permission) and love it.
Opps. commented on wrong post :)
Okay, this one, I liked in the last letter when you said they owed you $45 if they cashed your check and didn’t apply it. Mind you, with interest.
I tried that in one of my letters from several years ago. Nada.