City Sticker Renewal 26 Years Too Late
26 years.
Can you believe it?
It took 26 years for a gentleman’s city sticker renewal to come via U.S. mail to the Chicago City Clerk’s office.
The Clerk’s office received this letter and payment Friday, and then posted photos of it to the Clerk’s office Facebook page.
“And THIS is why we advise that you order online as opposed to mailing in your city sticker renewal,” City Clerk Susana Mendoza posted on her Facebook page. “We JUST RECEIVED this today, a renewal from 1986. Kudos to the USPS for timely delivery.”
CBS 2 reports the Clerk’s office tried to reach the senior citizen who tried to renew their city sticker but have failed to locate him. They think, after all these years the gentleman may have passed.
Our guess is that after 26 years of $120 tickets for failure to display his city sticker, he was forced to flee the city where the boot vans couldn’t reach him.
Hat tip to CBS 2 for the story.
On the bright side, he only paid $0.22 to mail it.
I call Fraud..
That bank doesn’t exist any more.
The City Clerk apparently said:
“And THIS is why we advise that you order online as opposed to mailing in your city sticker renewal,” City Clerk Susana Mendoza posted on her Facebook page. “We JUST RECEIVED this today, a renewal from 1986. Kudos to the USPS for timely delivery.”
My comment. An unnecessary snarky anti-government comment. Doesn’t the City send the stickers to the on-line purchasers by the U.S. Mail? There are LOTS of good reasons to buy on-line. This isn’t one of them And she is playing right into the trap of the right wing by somehow suggesting that essential government services (the post office) are really not essential.
Mendoza’s snarky comment is actually a violation of Standing Personal Code of Conduct.
23. Discourteous treatment, including verbal abuse, of any other City employee or member of the public. Provoking or inciting another employee or member of the public to engage in such conduct. The USPS being a Public Service.
32. Treating discourteously any member of the public where such person can reasonably believe that the employee is acting within the scope of her or his employment. Employees of the USPS are members of the Public.
Rule 50. Conduct unbecoming an officer or public employee.
DoR, David-
I kind of see your dual, but similar points.
But it IS kind of a funny comment.
DoR, this is Chicago. Government employees can treat the public any damn way they please. Rahm said so.