Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 03/11/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 03/11/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Doing stuff I'm almost sure is a waste of time and money. My grandfather who passed away in 19****89, had multiple bank accounts including multiple ones for hs grandchildren. Turns out when his estate got settled the executor missed some. Literally decades later, I discover the one in my name in an unclaimed funds list.
The proof required for the claim is proof of shared address with the account on record. Aka my Grandpop's PO box. Which obviously I don't have what with having been a child who didn't get mail and who lived at a different address. Also the executor of the estate passed away in 2012. And, I live in NZ but this is State of NY bureaucracy.
So I'm like 99% sure I'm throwing away a notary fee and postage on a chance at a completely unknown amount of money (but probably not all that much).
If anyone has any windmills, I'd be happy to charge them with a lance.
You're spending some money where you have a chance of getting out more than you paid, a good chance of it being less, and a minuscule (but real) chance of it being lots.
You're basically buying a lotto ticket 😄
Good luck!
Ha! You're right, thanks!
I've been dealing with something along these lines with a UK bank account. It's been a long time since I lived in the UK, but it's useful to maintain an account there. But for reasons I don't fully understand, they decided to make my account "dormant", even though there was money going into it within the last 12 months. This is a thing in the UK they're allowed to do, and eventually the government can claim the money. In principle, it's a good idea, because the govt can make use of money that's otherwise sitting around doing nothing. But in my case (and I'm sure many other's cases) it's been very frustrating.
You can't do much without going into a branch, which is not helpful since I don't plan going to the UK any time soon. So I've spent a lot of time on calls with them figuring out what I need to do... I sent them everything I thought they needed.... but, my application got rejected. At least now they've sent me clearer instructions, so hopefully I can get it right this time. But I'll probably have to have another call with them to check, and then there's time to collect the documents, have them certified, and send it out (and then wait a few months until they actually process it).
Gotta love bureaucracy! It's definitely not as bad in NZ as in a lot of other countries.
That sounds like a proper bureaucratic nightmare. Yeesh.