What would you do with an eight cent check?
I know what I did,
I cashed it.
Let me tell you why.
First, I'm not thinking about myself when I cashed this check. I'm thinking about all the people behind it to make it possible for me to receive my money. You see, a while back I refinanced to a lower rate with my mortgage company so I could save about $150 per month. Somewhere through that process I paid an extra 8 cents. Since the mortgage company by law has to self audit and pay it customer's back for any discrepancies, I got my money. But that's not all. The audit department had to send the information to the company's financial department which got the okay to print the check. They sent the check to their mail department which put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it, and sent it to the Post Office. A member of the Post Office had to put the envelope on a conveyor belt so a machine could quickly read the zip code to send it to the right location. A different conveyor belt sent it to the right truck, so that truck could take it to the right airplane, so that airplane could take it to the right city for processing at a central hub. That central hub then sent my envelope to the correct city so my local Postman could deliver it to my mailbox.
You see.
If I didn't cash that check all the effort it took
and the cost accumulated through all those channels for me to receive my eight cents would have been wasted.
I didn't cash it for me.
I cashed it for them!
This is,
Just A Guess On My Part But I Would Say That The Whole Process To Pay Employees, Cost Of The Check, Envelope, Stamp, And To The Tax Payers So I Could Get My Eight Cents Would Be Between $200 To $300 Dollars
Jim Hauenstein
And,
“Did you ever see a little kid’s face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?”
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That is my story and I am sticking to it!
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