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Due date for payment

The postal service is pretty much kaput in Zimbabwe. Only very occasionally will I find something in my post box. Saturday was one of those days. I retrieved a City of Harare bill from the cobwebs.

The billing date: 31st August 2008
The due date for payment: 12th September 2008
Date received: 25th October 2008
Amount due: 28097538481133 (no spaces)

Hmmmm.

The bill cites services such as refuse removal – ha, ha, when last did that happen? Like a year ago.

Apparently we have a new Mayor.

Yahooooo. Anyone out there?

This entry was posted on October 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Bev Clark and is filed under Shortages and Inflation, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One comment to “Due date for payment”

Comment by Bill Kinsey:
Monday, November 3rd 2008 at 4:33 pm
Equally as amazing … you were able to open your post office box. Despite having a receipt dated January 2008 stating payment has been received for one year’s rental, my PO box is now firmly locked so that I cannot open it. I am now expected to accept this breach of contract [on what authority remains a mystery] and to pay the new quarterly rents … starting immediately.

But one question is: What is happening to all the mail they are now failing to deliver to houses or allow to be removed from PO boxes? There must be a mountain of it out there somewhere.