Most Idiotic Letter From Officialdom?

[mrs_overall]

Mine has to be when my mum died. I wrote to Vodaphone to cancel her contract and enclosed a copy of the death certificate. They replied to my mum at her address and the letter started: Dear Mrs Blank, we are sorry to hear of your death.

[Buenchico]

But what reply did she send?
;-)

[mrs_overall]

I'll get the ouija board out and ask her

[daffy654]

Mine was ... Please find enclosed a cheque for the underpayment covering the period from(?) to(?) in the sum of £0.01

[mrs_overall]

Needless to say I made an official complaint and never received a reply

[emmie]

local council usually takes the top spot.
council survey
"we value your opinion on the local traffic problem"
this seems sensible, however they ignore all letters of complaint, same for planning, noise, and so forth.

on phoning them once, was told that they did not receive the documents, even though it was returned in their stamped addressed envelope, same for a local businessman friend, so why waste our time..

[PipinDorset]

Not a letter, as such - but I was threatened with arrest for being AWOL (nine years after leaving the army) - an MOD computer glitch. Just one of many!!

[Frank97]

I received a letter once threatening to take me to court for non-payment of my gas bill, I didn't have gas in the flat!

[lady-janine]

i recieived a questionnaire for our nearest village (no pavements, no yellow lines, etc) one question was did i find curb crawlers a nuisence? i replied that i found it good for business. never had any come back.

[DTCwordfan]

From Cumbria County Council 1976

Dear Mr DTC

We are pleased to enclose a cheque for your University maintenance and expenses for the sum of £0.01

Blah Blah

I got the rest two days later.

Never cashed it and it sat on my wall as a trophy of stupidity.

[gness]

As D97....resulting in a man coming to cut off the gas I didn't have.

When I received my re-cycling bin the council sent a letter telling us not to put peelings in it unless the fruit and veg had been peeled in the kitchen. This was a nuisance at Christmas.....getting the kitchen satsuma peel mixed up with the sitting room satsuma peel.

[zebo]

When my MIL died and my husband informed various organisations, we got one reply, addressed to her, Thank you for informing us of your change of circumstances.
When we were living in Gib in an quarter we asked if we could have a letterbox in our gate, as I worked for the local government and got post sent to home. One afternoon, I heard the bell on the gate ringing and took a letter from the postman. It informed us that as military personnel had their post delivered to their place of work, we didn't need a latterbox!

[emmie]

received an invoice from M&S for 1p, it was from an account i had closed,
i tried paying the 1p at one of their stores, but because i had cut up their credit card, they wouldn't accept it.
they kept on sending out the same bill until I gave up and sent a cheque for 1p,

[Eve]

I had HMRC saying they owed me money so I said to send me an invoice (as didn't believe I did). They sent me an invoice for... £0!!!!

[lcg]

my hubby still has a giro from 1992 for 1p framed and in the bog. we have all sorts of curios in there.