The tangles some people seem to have had reminded of a parallel experience
and tip once given to me by a Frenchman when dealing with officialdom - like
the tax authorities or the civil service as a whole, when you can't get what
you want. I've used this technique on a number of occasions and it works
perfectly.
Obviously, keep copies of all incoming and outgoing mail to do with the
matter. The next time you receive a letter or form from 'the corporate body'
you answer it. Then, photocopy the whole file, making sure the last incoming
letter and your outgoing reply are on top and mail back the whole
photocopied file. You get another reply from 'the corporate body.' Reply to
it making yet another complete file of all previous correspondence and
include the latest incoming letter and reply are on top. Mail that wodge of
paper too. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get yet another reply - so deal with
that in exactly the same way as you did with the two previous responses from
your end. It's improbable you'll have a fourth response and you'll probably
get what you wanted in the first place. How? These corporate organisations
only maintain a limited amount of hard copy filing space and the receipt by
them of all this paper from you comprehensively screws it up and they'll
accede to your request. My experience anyway and its worked superbly for the
last 15 years. I've recently been using this method with a pain in the butt
lawyer who openly admitted he didn't know which file to read - and lawyers,
like banks, never throw anything away.
John Mac
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