# The only thing I feel like bitching about...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-thing-i-feel-like-bitching-about/54071>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 11, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-thing-i-feel-like-bitching-about/54071 "2001-02-11T22:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-thing-i-feel-like-bitching-about/54071/21 "2001-02-13T21:38:47Z")

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My utility company reminds me every month not to send in stamps for payment. (?)

I can’t imagine that every utility company is as forward- thinking as Cincinnati Gas & Electric, though…

Soooo, I’d put an old .33 stamp in there\* with a note to "Keep the change." Worse comes to worse, they'll have to pay another .34 to tell you that they can’t accept a stamp as payment.

\*And we surely have old .33 stamps around since nobody seems to have the .01 stamp here in Cincinnati. I’m suspecting it wasn’t even printed. This is yet another conspiracy against the consumer, but that is another thread.

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-thing-i-feel-like-bitching-about/54071/22 "2001-02-14T06:52:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \*  
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> \*And we surely have old .33 stamps around since nobody seems to have the .01 stamp here in Cincinnati. I’m suspecting it wasn’t even printed. This is yet another conspiracy against the consumer, but that is another thread.  
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I bought some today at that post office off Warsaw Ave, behind the St. Vincent de Paul shop…

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**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-thing-i-feel-like-bitching-about/54071/23 "2001-02-15T00:50:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Balduran \*  
> \*\*And it reminds me of my university where the tution fees were automatically deducted from my TA. They were exactly equal so for the whole semester every paycheck I got was $0.00 . Gotta love the automated payroll systems. \*\*

Ahhh, another tuition snafu! I got a “bill” from Liberty University, where my son is going, and after reading the entire thing, at the end, it said I owed “$0.00 Please pay this amount, or penalties will acrue!” I thought they might keep my son, or at least put him on layaway.

\*\* Satan, \*\* I like the idea of sending two dimes taped to an index card, then you’ll get another check!

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