Fun fact: I'm a USPS employee. Shipping human remains, at least in the case of cremated remains, is perfectly legal, but you do have to follow certain regulations. Yes, I've delivered peoples cremated relatives. And yes, it's a strange experience. It's fairly common when someone dies out of state or something for the cremated remains to be shipped home, and as far as I know the postal service is the only shipping company that'll deliver them.
I just recently had to do this with a friend's cremated remains. He died in Indiana but his family lives in South Carolina, so I had to ship them. It had to be priority mail express and have bright orange stickers that said what was inside, but other than that they treated it like any other package being sent at the post office with just a few extra questions. He got there the next day.
@@reaghank8602 yeah, generally speaking they're just packages from the USPSs perspective, but I always try to show a little respect by having them ride up front with me instead of... In the back with a bag of dog food from Amazon stacked on top of them.
OP: “My father is dead.” Company: “We don’t care. His death certificate isn’t good enough. We still need to speak to him in person.” OP: “Okay. (Gets out ouija board) Father, can you hear me? We need you to give them your signature!” Company: “😱😱😱” Do the people from the water company not know how death works?
Unfortunately it's not uncommon. Here in the UK a grieving pregnant widower wanted to cancel the mobile phone of her late military husband. She provided his death certificate, letters from the british army without success. The mobile service provider said only the her husband can make change! After raising further up, she was told to pay for the cancellation fee & the remaining months of the contract. That created a whole public uproar !
Story 1: Imaging being this stubborn. Like, dead people can't pay, y'know. I would be surprised if they still held that policy after what OP did, because that's just foul.
Of course they do, what these weasels are trying to do (illegaly) is pass the debt on to the next of kin, "can't close the account because he can't come here to do it himself, YOU gotta pay the bill for him asshole" - is what these mongrels are all about.
--- Well, on the other hand, there still a lot of "milking" done with just the name of the deceased individuals, especially in form of "estates" ( E.G. "Tolkien Estate" ). So, yeah, at least in this regard dead-people can still pay (the bills). (( Aye, I got inspired, so this will be yet another topical long-post. )) Alongside of course the name of the dead can especially used to hamper creativity / expressive freedom: One good example was the copyright-holders (who-ever-they-are-I-do not-know) of "Samuel Beckett"-productions cancelling the play of "Waiting For Godot" barely just before the grand-opening: Reason being that the actors were women. The absurdity here is that the copyright-holders / "overseers" had already read through all the production-documentations, therefore were already fully were of the casting! "Naturally" these copyright-holders didn't agree on any compromises to allow women play the roles. So the troupe decided to cash on this: They turned this whole farse into the play itself! Sure, they missed their original grand-opening-night. But they for the most they could just use everything they already had: Most geniously they retrofit(?) their advertisement-posters by smearing / crossing-over everything in relation Godot ( the names "Godot" and "Samuel Beckett" ). And the name of the play was now just called "Waiting", in English that is: Because this happened in March 2018 in Finland, the play was called "Odottaessa" ( in Finnish, this play is also originally known as "Huomenna hän tulee (Tomorrow He Comes)" which also was crossed-over on the poster ). The theatre / troupe-group in question is "Turun Ylioppilasteatteri" ("The University Student Theatre of Turku / Turku Student Theatre", not official English-name). Unfortunately there are no official English publications of this event either. But the translation tools work quite well with Finnish-language nowadays. So you can find various articles, and especially the blog / journal-entries of this event with this slogan: "Vaihtakaa näyttelijät miehiin tai esitys perutaan." ( Change / Switch the actor into men or this play will be cancelled. ) ---
I don’t know if it’s illegal to send human remains in the mail because I sent my father’s ashes to his sister to be interred in Oregon (I’m in California) and they knew what I was sending. The FBI might’ve given the aunt a file because of the bank freaking out, but as a hippie, it’s probably one of her proudest moments and I respect her for that.
I dont kno if sending remans is illegal but it sure is illegal to send live ppl in the mail. Of course things only become illegal bc too many ppl were doing it. Welp, if the mail is cheaper than a bus ticket...
They actually have boxes on the USPS website that are used for and labeled “Cremated Remains.” So it’s ok to send the remains through the mail you just have to use the correct packaging. They are actually shipped more than you think.
The comment chain for that commenter had an explanation as to why they flipped out. Essentially, the bank opened the mail, the bag fell out and they activated their Anthrax response, which calls in hazmat teams and the FBI to investigate. That all came in the wake of the Anthrax terrorist attacks where someone mailed Anthrax to several public officials and banks.
Op enters the company office in full Shakespeare regalia, whips out their dad’s skull, and turns to the employees: “Alas, poor Father. I wish to close his account!”
As much as I hope to never have to do that, at the same time I kind of wish I had the chance to do that! OP definitely had the right attitude there. Shame some companies are utterly ludicrious.
So the first story kinda reminded me of a story about my mum. My mum had schizophrenia, & had been on a drug furniture for over 20 years, she was in the hospital with a chest infection and her dr, without asking her, me or talking to a mental health professional of any kind decided to take her off her meds. Now these are the kind of meds you can't just stop, like they have to be weened off and on to something else in a mental health setting. So you can imagine the state she was in after 2 weeks, during this the gas company we had were badgering me over an overpayment, that's right, we'd over paid and they wanted to speak to the account holder, who they still had listed as my dad, who'd died the year prior. I took in death certificates, and other legal papers no dice, then they said they could speak to the next of kin, which was my mum, who at the time... was mute, and in acute psychosis. So I told them sure, if tou want to talk to her it will have to be in person, because she's mute, and can't come to the phone. (This was 10 years ago and zoom wasn't really a thing) So I set up the meeting, and in walks the adviser, who takes one look at my mum, who's about 4 stone at this point ( about 50lbs) Looks shocked and hands me a cheque and promptly leaves. The cheque that couldn't be paid out, because it was so large it didn't fit the banks cheque machine had to be resent... this time... in my name. Never got another phonecall from them.
I don’t know why but the whole “bring someone’s remains to the office” type of stories are comedy of the macabre flavor, the favorite of my hot topic loving edge lord of a personality.
“You can’t close the account cuz your name isn’t on it.” “Ok then who’s gonna pay it?” “You…?” “But you said my name isn’t on the account, so that’s not happening.”
The aunt with the new fbi likely was given the equivalent of a slap on the wrist by the agent who was definitely laughing hysterically after the chemical composition showed it was wood ash
Went through similar stuff with my mother-in-law!!! We were staying with her, to help out. After she passed, it was a constant shitshow! Call after call "We need to speak with her asap. I don't care she's dead, we still need to see her in person." We told them either buy a Quiji board, or we gave them the address to the cemetery.
I can totally see OP actually going in to do the interpretive dance, smoke signal, etc in person at the water company like the ouija board and I want this person in my life 😆
Story 1 : same thing happened to my friends dad.. his mom passed in 1968 ..1988 the bank called him asking to speak to his mother he replies with :" well of course you can if you dig her up and talk to her" they never called again..
Story 1: I will never understand why some companies are sticklers for this particular policy when they're presented with proof of the account holder's death. They need to reevaluate that. It's just stupid.
If there's anything I've learned from malicious compliance it's the fact that people don't understand the end results of a situation will be worse than what they would be if they were a decent person to begin with
I would totally bring the box with my dad's ashes in person in it with me if I'd encountered the same issues. I would probably put a "hi my name is _______" name tag on the box to go with the official paperwork side that's attached. I even went so far when I was preparing to close accounts as to ask his partner (who has him displayed on her mantle) if I could "borrow Dad" if there was an issue. She thought it was hilarious and was like sure.
Story 1: I had the same problem with the gas company, both people on the bill have passed away but the only way to close the account is for them to give permission which obviously they can't do. It's been 10 years since I talked to somebody from the gas company last, if their policies are still the same then I might have to go digging~ see how they like them apples......
That first story kind of reminded me off when (at that time) my recently decesed grandfather got a package and we tried to collect it at the post office. Problem was that they required him to be there to pick it up himself and when I pointed it out that he was recently decesed, their answer was "Then why would they send a package out if he is dead?" And I was a jerk 17 year old at the time so I replied with "What do you want? Dig up his corpse so we can get his stuff?" We never got to recive that package despite my dad trying to explain to the postal company that my grandfather was dead.
People who stay in a job too long become corporate automatons and often lose the ability of critical thinking. This leads to them saying or doing things that would make them come off as apathetic at best or fired/sued at worst.
I need to add that the postal service in the country I live in is very notorious for being very tough with identification. I've half- joked that the banks have less security then the post but in a way it's true. My mom didn't get her package once because her signature didn't 100% match the one on her id-card. And I didn't get my stuff because the company who sent it misspelled my name.
The first story is very similar to what happened with my family 8 years ago. My great grandfather had passed, so my grandfather and grandaunts started taking care of cancelling every contract in his name. Most companies requested for a death certificate as a justification and that was that, except for the phone company. At that time, this phone company had many cases (from contract breaks on their behalf to scamming) showing up in the news and were going bankrupt sooner or later so the employees started acting very aggressive towards the remaining clients to prevent them from leaving and offering "good deals." Unfortunately this was our case, and no matter what proof we gave, they'd kept declining cancelling contract. So, much like OP, we stopped paying for that bill hoping that the service would be eventually cut off. NOPE. The phone company kept sending threatning letters saying that if we wouldn't pay then it would be taken to court. This went on for almost a year. Welp, my grandfather and aunts did just that and showed all the paper evidence plus phone records demanded by court. The company was sued for refusal of canceling contract, harassment AND also for the heavy emotional damage that we were having to deal with. The judge was 100% on our side and the company was ordered to terminate contract then and there, pay a compensation for emotional and moral damages (to my grandfather and each of my aunts) as well as pay for our lawyer's fees due to all the inconvenience they made us go through. Overall, just a bunch of jerks who wasted time, resources and money for all involved parties for the marvelous outcome of nothing but more bad reputation for the company. Needless to say that a few months later it ceased to exist.
@@donnyshields4450 they refused to cancel the contract when the requested evidence was given and kept on demading for the bills to be payed, aka not just through letters but also constantly calling my grandfather and aunts multiple times a week. Needless to say that said calls had very aggressive and rude people on the other side
Story 1 reminds me of our current issue with my mums electricity supplier. I work for an electricity retailer in Australia and my father passed away back in March. 4 phone calls to their electricity supplier, my employer, and each time over an hour on the phone, sometimes close to 2, to change the account from my fathers name to my mother, and each and every time they wanted to "speak to the account holder to confirm the change". I am listed on the account to do changes, but no they wanted to talk to my deceased father to confirm the change. Last time I called I asked if they had an Ouija board or did they want me to send them one so they could contact him directly.... Yep the account is still in his name, but is now sent to my mailing address so mum does not get upset each and every time an electricity bill is sent to her.
My aunt got sick and tired of getting phone calls from creditors and scammers for her father/my grandfather and she started just putting the phone to his urn and left it until they hung up.
My great-aunt's widower has been dead over a year now and his land-line has been left off the hook continuously since then because they're ALWAYS calling and refuse to accept 'he's dead this well is dry.' Mom can't even hang the phone up and call out most of the time because it rings as soon as it's hung back up.
*plonks a skull down on a government official's desk* "Here's my dad, he's not the most talkative of people, but he'd like to cancel his account. Also he's authorized me to sign as POA since he's not up to much writing these days."
And yet you can buy them in toy stores. Fun story, actually. When I was 19 my sister and I both had Christmas seasonal jobs at Toys R Us. Someone actually came in, in the middle of Christmas shopping rush, asking where to find the ouija boards and while being shown to the board game section informed my sister and one of our coworkers that he wanted to contact H*tler to verify a few historical facts. Coworker's response was "Okay well we do ask that you please wait until you've left the property to do that..."
I just imagine the dude reviving the letter from the aunt like “oh what’s this?” *opens letter* “dear phone company blah blah blah take it up with him yourself” *looks at bag of ash* “what do they mea…..oh god”
Same thing happened with my uncles bank account. They couldn't close I without him there. My aunt (his sister) said, "so should I bring his ashes?" The worker had no anwser and just looked around to pass her off to a higher up. After being passed to higher up to higher up. The final higher up finally said a death certificate would suffice.
OP: "I would like you to tell the difference between these two pictures." **Pictures shows a normal dude, and a corpse** Water Company: "They are the same picture."
Story 1 I had a similar thing happen with the gas company when my grandmother died. We sold the house and tried to get the gas turned off but they refused because "the account owner had to make the shutoff". Even after telling them she's dead they refused. So we just stopped paying it. 1 year later we keep getting collections notices but aren't gonna pay them. What are they gonna do garnish money from my grandmothers now deleted bank account? Just goes to show companies will do anything to keep sucking your wallet dry
Story 2: Why do bonuses cause trouble somewhere, like someone deserves a bonus, but someone higher up goes BS lengths to deny it. Like, if they deserve a bonus, give them it!
In that first story, we have a definite winner. I hope somebody filmed that. And another way he could have gone is two dress up as Paul Bearer from the road WWF days. Oh my undertaker.!
The water bill case reminds me of a case where a man ignored a gas bill for $0.00 and was getting bill reminders, he tried calling and talking to someone at the gas company but they didn't fix the problem. The bill reminders started getting increasingly angry and threatened legal action. In exasperation the guy wrote a check for $0.00 and it crashed the bank. It went to court and he explained it all to to he judge that he was just trying to get to he has company off his back and the gas company got hauled in and had to explain themselves and got be a pretty hefty fine.
My grandma died about a year and a half ago and we’re still getting phone calls asking for her. I don’t answer the landline anymore. I’ve been tempted to give them the cemetery phone number
Same deal with my great-aunt's widower. He's been dead about the same amount of time and the land line is constantly being called so the phone is left off the hook. Often you can't even hang it up to call out because the people won't stop continuously redialing and you can't get it hung up and picked back up before it rings again before you can call out.
i gave the cemetery address and plot number to the gas company as mums new address they squeaked "but thats a cemetery" i said yes that is where civalized people place the dead, what do you do to them?
We had a couple of relatives that when they passed certain companies insisted on continuing to send their junk mail, (they thought maybe someone else would be interested in their junk), we finally started stamping “return to sender” on everything.
The water story reminds me of something that happened during my divorce. We were cordial and didn't fight, just wanted it over with, so in that aspect it was fine. But one thing that didn't get resolved was our formerly joint bank account. I had already gotten my own separate bank account and taken my name off the joint when we separated (there's a waiting period between filing divorce, and the court actually allowing it, in case you change your minds.) For some reason she opted to open a new account and clean out the old one, leaving it at a zero balance. But she never actually closed it for some reason, nor did she update her contact info. Now this bank penalized you for having a zero balance, something like $30 for every full month the account sat empty or something like that. I was no longer thinking about it, and it wasn't until I got a call from the bank's collections department that I realized the account was still open and had a negative balance of like -$300. I explained that we're no longer married, my name isn't on the account, she doesn't live here, and I don't know where she moved to. And to their credit, the bank stopped calling or mailing stuff to me. Not sure how that all panned out, but basically my ex wife got taken to collections over it because she didn't close the account, and refused to respond to my voice messages.
Update to last story: He was told that the security guard isn't allowed to give out parking spots. He lost his spot. A lie was told about the security guard being chewed out just to appease the higher ups.
Hey R/ this is important. I got a message from someone poseing as u saying i won a prize. Ive had this happen before with another channel. I would bring attention to this asap so someone dosen't get tricked into this. Please respond so i know u saw this and dont have to worry. Thank u very much for your help and understanding.
5:22 Unfortunately it’s this mindset that allows stuff like this to keep happening. It’s the all too common ‘not my problem anymore, let someone else deal with it’. At least blast them on social media like Op is doing.
We went through the same thing when my grandmother died. the water company and ADT security would NOT cancel her service and would not let my mom cancel in spite of being the executor of the estate, so they just didn't get paid and they turned my dead grandmother over to collections.
This just sound so weird that you can get human remains back ... If I get buried I hope its forever and not something that you can give to the next ...
Only USPS centers are allowed to send cremated remains. And it has to be clearly labeled as such. Found that out when I went to Fedex to mail my parents to my sister lol
I'm sorry. What country has you "rent" a burial site. I know America is a little screwed up but atleast that's the one thing we have right. Once we're in that ground that's it
Lol I do something similar to story 1 for people I know. Idk why these places like to pull this stunt, but asking for dead people to visit is apparently the norm. Anyways, I was at a flea market and a stall was selling junk from a storage unit. Including a pretty dark green urn. My aunt had recently lost her mother but couldnt afford anything other than the box the funeral home provided so I got the urn to put her in it. Unfortunately, when I popped it open it was already occupied. I thought it was just heavy, good quality porcelain. But nah, I bought human remains for $1. I tried using the tag to track down the family but it was a bust. Just dumping the ashes seemed mean. So now I have a random urn that I've named Terry and if someone has an issue where they're trying to mourn and a company's being unreasonable I bundle Terry up, put them in the little car seat I made for them, and we take a trip to someone's office to dramatically plop them on a desk and I wail about how cruel the company is for making me do this in a time of grief. Every time I've done it suddenly the bosses, who were always too busy to talk to the person I was doing this for, magically have the time to handle the situation and are willing to waive any postmortum fees. I've been doing this for the past 7 years and I worry someone's eventually going to recognize me so sometimes I just loan Terry out for a day. End result's the same 🤷♀️
Quite common in most of europe, where graves can either be bought (so as long as you pay every 10 or so years they stay for basically eternity) or ''rent'' graves (mostly done by those who cant afford to buy or simply dont care enough) which keeps its ''occupants'' interred just long enough for them to decay to bare bone after which the remains are dug up and either cremated or reburied in an anonymous unmarked mass grave (in some countried given a name that roughly translated to ''bone pit'' in english)
You Murrican? Pfft. This is very common in many countries. We had my grandmother moved off site and reduced to a bag of bones because the 30 yr contract expired.
In crowded area like China or India, of course there would not be enough land for mass grave, so most people was either burried in their own private land or lease a place in the temple to keep the ash and as a bonus, get monk to pray for them.
@@LathropLdST Might just be an American thing, but I don't see the point in paying for someone to be temporarily buried when you're just going to have them dug up again and reduced to bones and/or ashes. Seems more practical and respectful to the dead to have their body processed and stored in the columbarium at their church to begin with. If land is at issue, green burial where the body completely decomposes would probably be my preferred route of being disposed of, if a sky burial isn't legal.
That first post reminds me of two phones calls I had to deal with after my grandma's passing. Person on phone: Can I speak to Mrs. Smith? Me: I'm afraid you can't. She passed away recently. Person on phone: I'm sorry for your loss. Would next week be a better time? Me: She's dead, so no? Person on phone: Oh okay, good bye. About a week later. Person on phone: I'm calling to talk to Mrs. Smith? Me: Sorry, she passed away awhile ago. Person on phone: I'm sorry to hear that. Could I try to talk to her next week? Me: She'll still be dead, but you can try. Person on phone: ... -hangs up- Like I get being on autopilot, but yikes! How can you ask to talk to a dead person next week? I'm pretty sure the answer isn't going to change.
There was one where a someone kept trying to get in touch with a dead guy and his daughter kept telling them he was dead, so she brought his urn and death certificate to their office. Girl at the desk was a moron and decided this was a threat to her life.
@@someonebored0100 You're probably right. After her initial shock, bla, bla, bla for eternity. You're right; he wouldn't deserve that. But we hope the next receptionist would be more mindful.
Story 1 isn't the first time I've heard of stuff like this. How hard is it to accept "He/she is dead and here's the document to prove it"? Is this just empty-headedness or intentional stupidity?
In the first story's comments, I believe I was part of that chain myself, and it was explained further to the person about why the bank reacted why they did. First off, it is not a crime to send human remains through the mail, so long as they are in a sealed container. A baggie would suffice. With corpses, it's not done that often, but it does happen from time to time, and there's a declaration that has to take place prior to the body being moved. Cremains generally don't require that. Whatever the case, the reason that commenter's aunt ended up with an FBI file, is because they mailed an 'unknown substance' (that's the legal term for it) to a bank. After the incidents some years back where people mailed anthrax powder and other contaminants to public officials, banks, and so on; the response has been to always treat unknown powdered substances as terrorist acts. What happened with the aunt, is the FBI investigated her to see if it was Anthrax, tested the 'substance' and opened a file in regards to her threatening behavior.
The human remains thing is to stop organ trafficking to protect people and ensure that the organs are not contaminated. Also prevents people who have not donated their bodies from being sold but there are a few out there that gain the rights to move organs but don't even verify if the recipient is qualified to receive them.
My much loved mother died, my father was suffering badly with dementia. I had sent death certificates to all the relevant offices including the new poll tax, she had the misfortune to actually live for 2 weeks into it, the, shall we say, over enthusiastic new office phoned my dad and said he would be put into prison for none payment, I had paid for my dad so it was just my mums and she was adamant that she would not pay Thatchers anti family tax. I told as many members of my family as I could with the name and number of the person threatening a 75 year old man who had just lost his wife. We threatened them with law, police included, press and all the media we could think of. Dad deteriorated after the threat of prison, they were aware of his condition. The last one to get in touch with the designated moron was me. About an hour later, I did feel sorry for her but it only lasted a moment. I soon got over it. That tax was breaking up families, but it was policy to f people over as Thatcher sold our factories order books. She sold the working/ middle class down the river. I am sure and certain that when she died she was delivered straight into the arms of Satan, they deserve each other. ❤
Story 1 I'd encountered in a cpl.other vids. And on one of them I suggested that just the bag of bones wasn't enough; op should have placed the skull opposite herself at the ouija board.
I had a slightly similar experience when I was in my early teens. I was the "accountant" for a small youth club. We did small jobs in our neighborhood, and I'd opened a bank account to deposit the money in. Then came the day when we wanted to withdraw some money to buy something(a tent, I believe). Went to the bank, who said "you're under 18, you're not allowed any money". So I asked "Ok, so how do I get it?" The bank replied "you need to get a signed certificate of permission from the one who opened the account". Me, "Well, hand over the papers, I'm the one who opened the account". Bank said "Um, you can't do that. You need to be over 18 to sign a certificate of permission". So while not dead, I was equally unavailable to do anything with the account. Me "so now what? is that money going to sit until I'm old enough? My club members will be really disappointed. Are you really allowed to keep customers from withdrawing money from their own accounts?" (To clarify, when I opened the account, I'd clearly said it was for the club. It had the club name written into the account name. But I was the only person associated with it. So "my account" even if it wasn't my money.) An uncomfortable silence followed, while I stayed like glued in front of the teller. After some whispered conversation, I was escorted into the bank, to see the Director. He somehow made it feel like it was all my fault, but grudgingly allowed me access to the account from there on. Obviously someone at the bank had messed up when it let a minor open an account, and was now trying to find the least embarrassing way to deal with it. I looked at the history of the account years later when I closed it. and there's no mention of a certificate of permission. But several withdrawals of a minor. I wonder how they tweaked the system to alllow that?
You can absolutely send human remains though the mail. I've delivered some a couple times. There's even a sticker in the post office that the clerks stick on packages that say "human remains".
Sending ashes in the mail is not a federal crime in United States. You just have to send it through the quickest way and pay more. I did it with my dad's ashes recently to give to my aunt
Yeah. After my husband passed away, I kept getting collection letters and bills in his name as well having to change utilities to my name. I had the box with his cremaines and copies of the death certificate in my car so every time I had to deal with stupidity, I pulled both out. Got many strange looks. Also offered to send ashes to telemarters and collections who kept calling after his death.
Sending human cremains through the mail is NOT federal crime. USPS even has a specially labeled box for doing it. Source: I had an inmate cremains box in my office for six years.
my sister used my dead's granma and pa's internet for a coup0le of years. was actually clever. when she moved cities, we could push the termination of contract much much faster. (in germany ISPs usually bind you for 24months), but sending that certificate was instant cancellationl. sorry for my weird wording.
If only were possible to have the puppetry from Halloween town with Benny, the skeleton, LOL. I can imagine having that and trying to sign the document and the hand come off and be like whoops! I guess you won’t be needing that anymore.
I enjoyed the last story a lot but I’m not sure how it’s malicious compliance, since OP verbally and through emails warned the guy about not parking there
My grandfather died five years ago. He had bought an apartment in France (we're Italian and about 2 hour drive away from the place) in the '90s and had hired a local agency to manage renting on that property whenever the family wasn't using it. After he died, my grandmother, whose mind had already begun deteriorating before he passed away, was relocated so that the rest of the family could take better care of her (some took that task more seriously than others, but that's another matter entirely). The agency continued sending mail to my grandfather's address, the place where nobody lived anymore because he died and my grandmother was relocated, summoning him to meetings and stuff like that, no matter how many times and how many ways we notified them 1) of his death and 2) of the fact that, as a result of 1, the property had been passed down to his sons and daughters. It took literal years and speaking in person with the regional manager or something like that before we even came close to solving the matter. The fact that this was still happening when the pandemic hit did not help at all.
i shipped human remains..and had the option to have the remainder shipped back to me. I got a glass orb with my fathers ashes infused into it and had to ship a vile of them to the company.. The envelope was marked that it had cremation ashes in it (don't remember exactly how it was phrased but it had a big red sticker on it) .. So far the FBI hasn't come for me but I'll keep you posted!
1st story: I can relate to the first story. When my grandma died, the water service still was sending the bill, even when NOBODY lived there. Even the water service stopped providing water, we call them numerous times, and they still wanted us to pay. And we cannot stop paying, because it is supposed by the government, and if we have pending bills, se cannot sell the place, at all. 3rd story: A co-worker had a similar deal, but he choose to stay, back in 2018. Guess what happened in 2019?, no promotion, only got a 2 k (pesos, not dollars) raise, and that was it. Yeah, you can bet he wasn't happy. Like, man, what do they expect?, that people work their butt off, making the boss richer because "L0yAlty"?, bruh
You can send human remains through the mail. You just have to declare it and pay an extra fee. Know this because I have done it before. I am speaking for US law though.
We had this problem over 30 years when my husband's Mom died. It got so bad I said I would be willing to go get her ashes, when we went to close out her checking account. Everyone in line was laughing, so with red faces the bank closed the account. It was so dumb.
Ha. We smuggled my Dads ashes across several borders to get him buried in his home country. That was exciting. Especially when my sister started arguing with a border guard about showing her passport again.
The parking spot story has a follow-up and it's not all rosy. The security guard didn't have the authority to give OP that spot and got in trouble, and OP had to go back to parking far away.
In the 1980's one of my families utility companies switched over to a computer system that would aromatically take care of billing. They sent my mother a bill for $0.00. She ignored it but a few weeks later she got an "Overdue" bill for $0.00, with a threat that of the bill was not paid services would be terminated. She called then and while the person on the other end tried to cancel the bill, the computer would not let this happen. She finally ended up writing a check for $0.00. But this generated an issue with the bank when the company deposited the check into their account.
Think it is actually legal to send human remains through the mail only if they are cremated and you have a special permit plus the Box has to be clearly marked If anybody is curious or wants to fact check to me Contact the USPS or view their website I believe it's on there
Sensing human remains through the mail is legal. I just got my brother's ashes, but the requirement is: Cremated Remains may only be shipped using Priority Mail Express® and Priority Mail Express International® service for shipping Cremated Remains domestically and internationally.
Doesn't the people at the water company offices realise that the ouija board is a doorway for the spirits to pass through their world to our world!!! Congratulations, your offices are now haunted!!! Fantastic revenge I'd say!!! 🏢🏢🏢👿👿👿👻👻👻😈😈😈😁😁😁😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
I retired from the Post Office. human ashes can and do get sent, though they are sent via the fastest way possible, and are marked as such. any other way, well never had to deal with that
After my wife died, the company in charge of donating disposing of remains send me a box containing her ashes behaved correctly. So far, I haven't sprinkled her ashes across any buearucrat's desks, But I kn ow she would have approved if id did.
First, that Ouija board bit was epic. If that was a girl, wife her! They sound hilarious. Second... who the fuck RENTS a grave plot?! I guess living in TEXAS with ALL this space has me spoiled huh? lol FInally this reminded me of the story where the son or daughter of a dead man brought their father's urn to an office because they were trying to pull this shit as well.
Honestly... Any company that pulls that crap will be getting a forwarding address of the grave lot number if they refuse a death certificate... and honestly I'm not lawful good, I'm chaotic good let them waste employee time that is worth more than the $10 of dues until they figure it out. What are they gonna do sue me? Your Honor, here is the proof that I sent them the death certificate and a copy of my letter requesting to close the account. I request all legal fees be paid by the water company. Thank you.
Reminds me of when I bought my house. Initially I failed the credit check because my dad had forgotten to remove as an authorized user on one of his credit cards before declaring bankruptcy, so that bankruptcy showed up on my credit history. I explained this to the bank, and they advised getting a letter from that credit card company verifying I had never had an account with them and I could get it removed from my credit history. The idiot I dealt with at the credit card company insisted they couldn't do anything for me without an account number. I explained that was the point, I had no account number because I never had an account with them and I just needed a letter verifying that. They just kept repeating that they couldn't do anything without an account number. It took two days and about an hour and a half on the phone with their bankruptcy specialist to finally get that letter.
I actually work somewhere that sends cremated remains through the mail, including jewlery and special urns. The USPS is the only legal way to send cremated remains, no other couriers will. The snag is that the box must be clearly labeled on all sides, top and bottom as containing cremated remains.
I took an environmental law class. Turned out there was no statute of limitations on prosecuting a person or company for environmental law violations. A few years earlier I had built a structure to prevent our house from being undermined by erosion. No permits, no impact statement, etc. In the class I learned that even after several hundred years, the Environmental Protection agency could dig me up, stand my dead ass up in court and convict me of environmental crimes.
Our electricity company tried to continue charging us after our house burnt down and refused to come meet us at the now rubble claiming they were still reading the electricity meter that was behind a "warning: asbestos" sign on a tall construction fence
