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The cheque's in the post
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A number of debtors have used the recent postal strike to buy themselves more time. CM'S insider certainly feels short-changed.
Anattier day, another empty doormat.There should be flyers from Morrisons and Specsavers... a Cancer Research envelope.., the odd bill or five — and, God willing, several brown envelopes containing cheques and registration documents.
Nothing doing. While Royal Mail workers continue their strike action, yours truly and many like me are left short-changed as debtors (or truck buyers, to give them their proper title) claim to have put their cheques or V5 documents in the post.
Things have stopped moving.Trucks aren't being delivered to their new homes; they aren't being part-exchanged or snapped up by dealers. Following a recent sale one auction house is waiting on £500,000 and a host of registration documents before it can move stock to the new owners.
During the first wave of postal strikes one haulier bought a trailer and sold me a Daf CF85 in separate transactions. He was late with the money but I bided my time until he phoned to ask if he could have his money "sent electronically"— oh, and while we're talking money, he added, "my cheque's in the post".
fimm... he wanted me to wait for a cheque while paying him immediately via an electronic bank transfer at an extra cost. "Likewise," I replied, "I posted it today." Various Anglo-Saxon words followed with "Ill come down there and dangle you upside downthrown in for an extra threat. I sewed up my pockets and watched the gates, but his cheque arrived before he did,