English Quiz

By William Entriken

1 minutes

Please interpret this letter from PECO, quoted below:

SUBJ: RETURNED ITEM NOTICE

Your payment in the amount of $80.32 that we received was returned to us unpaid. …

Comments

Probably you sent them a check for $80.32. They received it and submitted it to their bank. The bank returned it to them and did not issue funds to them. This is usually because the account has NSF.

Chris

This is interesting. This is the longest sentence I've ever seen to describe "unpaid."

WY

Good guess Chris. It wasn't obvious to me because it's not actually a check, it was a direct debit.

Side note, this wasn't a letter to me, I pay my bills on time :-)

William Entriken

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