Have you ever heard of someone so cheap that they refuse to buy a 43 cent stamp? Well, if so, I’d be really surprised because I never thought there would be anyone as cheap as my husband. I’m simply appalled at some of the things my husband will do just to save five cents. He’ll go as far as to commit mail fraud to save money. Yes mail fraud. It’s one thing to be cheap, but he’s a borderline criminal!
Let’s say you don’t have enough postage on it, the post office will send back a piece of mail to you and indicate undeliverable due to insufficient postage. Get this – the cheapskate will put his name and our address in the “To” area and the address of the person or company he wants the mail to be sent to in the “From” area. So the post office will end up sending the mail back to the person/company. In essence, the piece of mail gets to the intended receiver and my husband doesn’t have to buy stamps!
On Mother’s Day my husband got a call from his mother. She wanted to know why a piece of mail addressed to him came to her house. She said her name and address was in the left-hand corner of the envelope, but she had no idea what it was. She never sent anything to him in the mail and the handwriting on the envelope wasn’t hers. Oh, geez, I can’t believe he pulled that trick on his own mother! He told her it was a Mother’s Day card and explained to her his method of sending mail.
I could hear his mother’s loud voice come through the phone.
“Oh, honey, are you guys having financial troubles? I could buy a couple book of stamps for y’all,” she said to the cheapskate.
I just rolled my eyes. All of this drama coming from a man who used to have no problems spending money. Now he’ll commit mail fraud without any hesitation.
If you thought the Mother’s Day card incident was bad….Well, one Christmas season I had him work on sending out the holiday cards. I even gave him a book of stamps thinking that he’d use them. Can you believe this cheapskate still pulled the mail fraud stunt? What the hell is he thinking?!? I got all these calls from friends and family wondering why they were getting this piece of mail addressed to my husband. How embarrassing is that?
– Jennifer, Portland OR
