There was a FedEx envelope outside my door the other day. I opened it up to find a check inside - WooHoo!
The check was for… 3¢
:smack:
Class action settlement, I suppose?
Thank Og they Fed Exed that bad boy to you! Imagine if it had been lost in the mail.
No, although that would have really been funny.
I recently transferred some money from a brokerage account to an annuity, and the addition of funds can only be done once. There must have been 3¢ of interest that occurred during the transfer window, and they couldn’t deposit it, so they cut me a check. The FedEx fee must have be at least $10…
Who was it from?
Reason I ask is that sending a three-cent check by FedEx is such an outstanding model of efficiency that it could not possibly have been from a private enterprise, because all private enterprises are ruled by the incredibly efficient Invisible Hand of the Free Market!
ETA … didn’t see the preceding reply before I posted! 
There is (or was a few years ago at least) a bar nearish to me down on Ventura blvd called “Royalties” or some such. You’d get a free drink if you came in with a royalty check for some stupid tiny amount (such as 3 cents) and they would put it on the wall. It is/was a snobby hipster place for all the failed actors in the valley.
One of my troops in the military got a paycheck that he thought was for $37. Since he had just had a Captain’s Mast, he was expecting a small check, but was happy he at least had enough for some smokes. Turned out it wasn’t a dollar sign, but an ampersand in front of the amount, which apparently was a code of some sort. Thirty seven cents couldn’t buy a pack of cigarettes even way back then.
Back in 1990, Donald Trump made the news for cashing a check for 13 cents sent to him as a prank by Spy magazine.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-spy-magazine-prank
And if you don’t cash it, you can really mess them up, man. They’ll keep that 0.03 on the books forever! They’ll never be able to balance out. It’ll be a gas, maaan.
We recently cancelled the insurance policy on one of our cars; it turned out to be cheaper to transfer the title to our son and have him go get his own policy than to add him onto ours with its high liability limits. We received a check in the mail yesterday for a refund of the ‘unused’ policy: 17 cents.
But at least they sent it USPS first class, not FedEx…
MARKETING!
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I think it might be less costly, than to employ someone to segregate things worth FedExing, from things not worth FedExing. I also get ridiculously small things in ridiculously large boxes, because in the long run, that is cheaper than stocking too many different sizes of boxes.
My online gambling house wire-transfers any amount, no charge, once a year to my bank. I could request cash out for an amount smaller than their wire transfer charge, but it would still be cheaper for them than to intercept my order and re-assign it to someone who would drop what he’s doing and cut me a check and put it in the mail.
When I worked for FedEx, we FedEx’d everything. I never knew anyone there to use the USPS for anything.
When I was going through the hiring process, my manager-to-be FedEx’d me a FedEx shipping envelope so I could FedEx something back.
Didn’t you hear - the author of The Anarchist’s Cookbook just died, man!
Once upon a time, my private propane company forgot to include a 25¢ tax on my bill. They sent me a separate bill a week later for 25¢ in an envelope that took 40¢ postage.
This was a small four-person office. It’s not like a big company that sends 100,000 bills a month and can’t have someone to sift out all the ones that are for less than a postage stamp.
Instead of using another 40¢ postage stamp to mail payment back, I stopped by their office to pay in person. (I passed it regularly on the way to the supermarket anyway.) I mentioned this to the lady at the desk. She told me that if preferred, I could just wait until the next regular bill and it would be included on that.
It just went totally over her head, and she missed the point. I concluded that they do stuff like that out of sheer stupidity.
Every 3 months I get an update on my retirement investment by mail. I have repeatedly tried to set it to email only, but they still keep coming.
There’s also 6 pages in each envelope, containing data that could trivially fit on 1 page.
Yesterday I got another one. I’ll be making 1c less a month for the next 3 months. Looks like grandma’s not getting that surgery for a while.
That’s some fine office management there, Lou.
I got a sub-dollar check when I cleared out an investment account before some interest or dividend hit. The woman I was talking to on their end told me it would save her some paperwork if I deposited it, so I did.
When I worked as a waitress long ago, we got paid about a dollar an hour plus tips. Tips had to be declared, and you had to declare at least 10% of your sales. Taxes were taken out of your paycheck.
More than once I got a paycheck for $00.00.
BAH! Not Royalties…Residuals! The bar was called Residuals! I knew it didn’t sound right when i was typing that up the other day.