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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 996067, member: 6986&quot;]This reminds me of two stories.&nbsp; One involves the time I sent mutilated money to the BEP.&nbsp; I won it in an Ebay auction from Australia.&nbsp; It was all burned but large enough portions were there.&nbsp; I did not pay much for the lot.&nbsp; I sent it to BEP and received a check for $385.00.&nbsp; All the notes were 1934A series FRN.&nbsp; I kept one that was the least damaged just for show.&nbsp; It pained me as a collector of US government checks to cash the check but I already had that style of check in the collection.&nbsp; Which leads me to my other story, this one about government bureacracy.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, I collect US government checks.&nbsp; I sent in an old 10 cent war savings stamp to the Bureau of the Public Debt for redemption.&nbsp; They sent me a check for $.10.&nbsp; Although it was a style I did not have in the collection, it was a very drab looking, computer generated check from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.&nbsp; It said on its face that it was only valid for 6 months.&nbsp; Five and a half months later I received a note indicating the check had not been cashed andwould soon be stale.&nbsp; It advised me that I could contact them if I had lost the check and have them issue another one.&nbsp; I did not have the stones to do so, but I thought about playing that game and having them issue me a new check for a dime every six months just to see how long it would take before they stopped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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