By the way, did you know that the French army still has a special corps of carrier pigeons at its disposal – just in case all other means of communication suddenly become unavailable? Yes, communication formats are constantly being improved, but there are always people who adhere to old traditions.
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The author of the post once got an email from a title company demanding some important data over their upcoming deal
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The employee sent everything via email, but the client demanded it in letter form only
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So on Monday, the title company employees called and demanded the author send everything via email anyway
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The author replied that they’d already sent the email on Friday and wouldn’t do the same job twice
So, the Original Poster (OP) says that among the contractors with whom their employer usually works, there is a title company, which one day urgently needed information about the payoff amount of one of the clients who had a $1500 lien on a piece of property.
Imagine the OP’s surprise when the title company’s employee replied that they needed this information ‘in letter form’ only. And, of course, it was needed urgently, because the deal was scheduled to close on Monday. Oh yes, we completely forgot to say that it was on Friday afternoon!
So the original poster shrugged and did as they were told. They simply printed out the whole email chain, put the papers in a properly addressed envelope and tossed it in the outgoing mail. Unfortunately, the author states, the post office has already closed. And, as Scottie Pippen once said, “the mailman doesn’t deliver on Sunday!”
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“Well, I understand perfectly well that in some areas of activity it is still required that certain types of information be sent exclusively in letter form, and I also encountered something similar,” says Alexei Shkurat, thefounder and CEO of the Peach Studio, with whomBored Pandagot in touch for a comment here. “However, if an employee says that the law allows emails, and they have done this more than once before, I don’t get why this option wasn’t suitable for their counterparties…”
“Moreover, the telephone conversation on Monday clearly confirms that email was still an absolutely legitimate option. Therefore, I can imagine two options: either the title company had some kind of outdated procedural instruction that ordered them to require information in letter form only, or simply one of the employees showed obvious negligence. Moreover, the first does not exclude the second… Unfortunately, this also happens in business,” Alexei summarizes.
By the way, some commenters on the original post also confirmed that they’ve encountered something similar in their work practice as well. And things didn’t end well in their situation either. “Banks, HOAs and mortgage companies love doing this stupid s**t,” one of the commenters wrote.
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