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Curiosity would get me in.I'll place this post here as "joke" seems appropriate to me. If not, Mods please move it.
Yesterday I received via snail mail a letter from the CBA addressed to my late wife which has been dead for nearly 14 years. Hmm, me thinks what on earth is this about?
It's about a safety deposit box and the ID needed to physically collect it. My, my when I read the letter in more detail. The box is at a CBA branch in Cairns. My wife would have left Cairns in the early 1970's - 50 years ago - and my guess is she would have collected the safety box contents but not bothered to formally close the activity. Hmm, if the CBA is able to address a letter to here then surely they could determine through Births, Deaths and Marriages the person is likely to no longer to be alive. Then maybe not and the bank is erring on the side of caution.
While I am defiantly in favour of flying up to Cairns it certainly would not be with the intention of forking out a couple of thousand $$'s merely to not collect something which doesn't exist. I am, however, happy to spend $1, or possibly $2, in loose change to send the letter back with a copy of the Death Certificate together with an note suggesting they update their records.
Although if the bank told me it's full of gold bars and precious jewels worth a few million, this post would not exist as I'd be on the first flight out this morning.
I'll place this post here as "joke" seems appropriate to me. If not, Mods please move it.
Yesterday I received via snail mail a letter from the CBA addressed to my late wife which has been dead for nearly 14 years. Hmm, me thinks what on earth is this about?
It's about a safety deposit box and the ID needed to physically collect it. My, my when I read the letter in more detail. The box is at a CBA branch in Cairns. My wife would have left Cairns in the early 1970's - 50 years ago - and my guess is she would have collected the safety box contents but not bothered to formally close the activity. Hmm, if the CBA is able to address a letter to here then surely they could determine through Births, Deaths and Marriages the person is likely to no longer to be alive. Then maybe not and the bank is erring on the side of caution.
While I am defiantly in favour of flying up to Cairns it certainly would not be with the intention of forking out a couple of thousand $$'s merely to not collect something which doesn't exist. I am, however, happy to spend $1, or possibly $2, in loose change to send the letter back with a copy of the Death Certificate together with an note suggesting they update their records.
Although if the bank told me it's full of gold bars and precious jewels worth a few million, this post would not exist as I'd be on the first flight out this morning.
I have a safe deposit box and there are some new regulations recently, we had to go to a branch and confirm our identity, they passed that on to the safe deposit branch.
OR maybe they consider that she owes them 50 years rental?
Curiosity would get me in.
Good luck with that.
Probate has been granted so tough for any outstanding creditors.
Nah. She would not have left anything of hers behind when she departed Cairns for Uni. Had a mind like a steel trap. Read a research paper and comment the conclusions were contraindicated in another paper she has read 18 months or so previously. Had no need to look it up. I did though and she was correct.
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