When I got home today I had a letter from Fedex. I opened it, and it was a past due bill, which I found particularly impressive since I have no accounts with them. I looked at it, and it listed a package I had sent from a Fedex drop off location, which I did send. Of course the whole thing is ridiculous since they would never accept a package from me that was not prepaid. I then checked my credit card statement, and confirmed I was billed at the time of shipment. Of course I get the thing after all their billing offices are closed for the night. Another annoyance to deal with tomorrow. Idiots.
And in the category of annoyances that never end,T-Mobile sent me a letter (at my parents address) saying they think I owe them $25.00. I have the most spectacularly bad luck with cell phone companies. First I sign up for AT&T, and they double bill me for stuff I paid for at the time of the purchase. I bought my phone late in the month, so I got my first bill about a week afterward. I went to the store to have it corrected, and they said I needed to call to the service department. The next morning they turned off my phone because there was this enormous unpaid charge on my bill (which was not even due yet). I have yet to find someone else who had their phone deactivated before their first bill was due. Their first string customer service rep was useless, and claimed they would have to investigate it before reactivating the phone. Their second string rep called the credit card company, confirmed the payment, and reactivated my phone within an hour, but told me I had to fax them a whole bunch of receipts, which I did that day. It still took them over 2 months to fix the stupid charges on my bill. Now I have a cell phone company I don't have an account with sending me a bill.
I would say it is just not worth the hassle and stop using things that you could billed after the fact for, but in these two cases they are just random out the blue events. I am curious why things like this always seem to happen in clusters.