Payment Limbo

Whenever there's a company that accepts mailed payments, like a credit card company or a loan company, there will be inevitable mishaps with the mailed payments. Some of the mishaps are real.

When a payment is unmarked and unidentified, it falls into a big repository of lost payments, waiting to be claimed by someone. It's sort of like the Ecto Containment Unit on Ghostbusters, except different.

You see, when you send in a mailed payment, it arrives in a large bag or container filled with similar envelopes. These envelopes are then stuck into sort of a hay baler thin, which rips the envelopes off the payments, sending them through a computerized machine.

The inhabitants of this land of restless payments with unfinished business on earth consist of the following:


 * Money orders sent with no identifying markings or account information on the memo section or anywhere else.


 * Blank checks.


 * Checks that lack identifying markings.
 * Cash.
 * Money orders not addressed to the company.