Parking tickets from St. Cloud?
* Two posts in two days. I'm crazy.
* You peps from SCSU might enjoy this and can maybe relate. So, over the last 6 months I have got about 3 letters saying I owe $80 for "fees". The penalty for not paying these stated that if I don't pay my fines I will not receive my diploma. Well as most of you know I graduated in summer 2003 and yes did receive my diploma. I obviously ignored these letters and laughed at them. Then I got one recently that said I only owed $20 but if I don't pay the MN Collections Division will come "hunt me down". (Seriously for $20!?!?!?). So I e-mail SCSU billing to find out what this is all about. They tell me that the original $80 in fines were from four parking tickets. Check out the dates for them: 12/04/01; 02/04/02; 02/05/02; 02/20/03. Yeah, that's right late 2001 through early 2003. Close to 2 years before I graduated on the first one. So, they knocked off the first three since I was ignoring the original letters and want me to pay $20. $20 isn't a big deal but I decide to ask why I should pay those since they are so old and I already have my diploma. Here is the response: In answer to your question, parking charges were not entered in the Accounts Receivable at the time of your graduation. It is for this reason you were able to receive your diploma. I would recommend that you pay the $20.00 especially since three charges were removed - in other words, you are still getting a deal. WOW!!! Thanks for such a great "deal" SCSU. Should I pay $20 because it took you almost two years to enter parking charges in to the system? I don't think so, you snooze you lose. I know it is only $20 and I'm sure I'll pay it, but its kinda weak. I asked them to prove to me that those were tickets on my car(s) that I had during those times. Now I'm making them look up the old tickets and check with the DMV to see what vehicles those tickets were given to. Overall though, this is a bunch of crap.
* First league basketball game tonight. Good luck to the boys playing. I will not be in attendance since I am going to my 6th T-Wolves game tonight. Word.
posted by A-Wine44 @ 3:49 PM
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Thats a great story. I am never paying a parking ticket again. What a waste of money. And it only takes 3yrs for scsu to get the collections against you? I can for surely ditch them by then.
I like how you tell SCSU that you snooze you lose.
Seriously, they were snoozing on those tickets for many years. I mean my first letter about these tickets came in mid-2005. Thats like 3 1/2 years before they realized I owed $80.
Because 1 member of our little family has "less than perfect" credit, you have to pay the ticket. So we don't get taken away to bad credit jail. :( More money to the St Cloud State leaches... But there were some good times there. How many Hairy or White Buffalos could we buy for $20 tonight?
Funny. That happened to me a few years back, but they contacted my sister for a ticket I got in my car that was registered under my dads name. She went there about 3-4 years before me. Apparently they picked her instead of me. Sweet. I had to pay. Not sweet.
Glad someone else had to deal with it. Today I paid and they lady at billing said she was really embarassed. It sounds like it 1oo% Public Safety's fault that these tickets take years to get sent to billing.
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