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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 2311658, member: 28550&quot;]Yes, it had tracking. The court only cares that they mailed it on the day that they claim they mailed it (the statute only specifies that the bill has to be paid within 20 days of the bill being sent).</p><p><br /></p><p>One judge (in the lower court) refused to further my appeal because he lacked jurisdiction once 20 days had passed. The clerks at the county court are refusing to schedule any hearings on the case because they returned the file to the lower court.</p><p><br /></p><p>A catch 22 that I haven&#039;t unraveled yet, to be sure. I wonder if I had mailed in payment and could present proof that the USPS took forever to deliver it that the situation would be handled differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for fun, I got the full 98 page file document copied from the lower court and tried to fax it to the county court along with a motion requesting a Special Exceptions Hearing. The fax line on their header turned out to be out of service, but when I called in and asked for their correct fax line, they gave me a different number (one digit off, so I&#039;m assuming it&#039;s just a typo that they don&#039;t care to fix).</p><p><br /></p><p>I followed up a few days later, and was told that a) they didn&#039;t get any faxes from me, b) they received 101 pages of fax in no discernible order, and c) they don&#039;t accept motions via fax. I guess they really have the A Team working over the holiday season, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I copied the document, drove to the county court (half an hour away), and tried to manually file it. They kept me waiting at the window for almost an hour while occasionally coming back to tell me &quot;We don&#039;t know what to do with this motion; we don&#039;t have a file to put it into since the case was returned to the lower court.&quot; Finally, I said &quot;You&#039;re right - you&#039;re absolutely not qualified to make a determination on a rule of law. I&#039;m leaving this here for you to file on my case and look forward to hearing from the Court Coordinator about scheduling a hearing.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I received the whole stack of documents in the mail yesterday, returned to me with a note saying &quot;Here&#039;s the documents you accidentally left at our office.&quot; GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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