She thought nothing more of it until she received a letter from Bexley Council demanding she pay her £0.00 fine with 28 days or face court action.
Josh said: "At first I was furious because I knew I had paid but when I actually looked at it, it had ‘no pounds, no pence’ on it. I don’t know how much it costs them to post these things – they could be better using the funds for more important things.
"There is a part of me that wants to send a cheque to them for no pounds, no pence but I don’t want to waste a stamp." A council spokesman said both notices were issued by mistake and the “fine” has been cancelled.
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There's actually a story, from many years ago, from the mainframe computer era, where a man was sent an invoice for $0.00 and who sent a check for $0.00. The zero-dollar, zero-cent check cause the invoice-issuer's accounting program to crash.
I don't know if this is true or apocryphal, and I'm not quite sure how to google it.
Lurker111
Heh heh, I hope it is true.
As always, Snopes.com to the rescue
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/zero.asp
Thank you for that!
And thanks as well. A simple Snopes lookup never occurred to me.
Lurker111
Something similar happened to me when I was in college. I received a collection notice demanding payment of unpaid school fees in the amount of $0.00.
I went to the registrar's office several times to resolve the situation (as they were withholding my grades from me), to no avail. So finally I sent in a check for $0.00, and a few days later my grades came in the mail.
Did they cash the cheque, Sooz? :)
Ha! I never heard from my bank or the school about it, so my solution apparently resolved the situation ;-)
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