Late post

[dormouse1953]

I received a letter this morning addressed to a previous occupant of my house.  I moved into this house in 1995, more than 15 years ago.

The letter was from Lloyds TSB so my first thought was junk mail but I opened it and it did seem to be a genuine letter informing the person that there had been some change in the terms of some financial agreement they had.  You'd think one or both parties would have noticed by now the bank didn't have the right address.

Even more amusing, the bank had updated the post code to my new post code.  Post codes in Guildford changed about ten years ago.  I guess organisations like banks could update addresses automatically when that change came in.  Not that American Express did so in my case.  I got an Amex bill this morning that had the old post code.

The addressee of the Lloyds TSB letter was the wife of the person I bought the house from.  I never met her.  But they left the house, if not in a hurry, at least keeping silent about it.  A month or two after I moved in, I had a visit from a solicitor who claimed that this person was involved in a court case involving a large sum of money and making it sound like he'd done a runner.  He'd told me that he was moving abroad for his health, and as he had a large oxygen cylinder in the living room, that might well be true.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think I told you about my mother's premium bond win? Died 1995, £25 prize came earlier this year (and had to be returned because it was more than a year after her death).

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

No, don't think I'd heard that. I think we cashed in all dad's Premium Bonds when he died.