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She got 1 postcard and 2 letters about high school dues!

Hi!

My son goes to PH also and we received the postcard, paid the dues etc.

Imagine my surprise to receive in the mail two letters, duplicate, exactly the same regarding the “dues fees”.

If they sent out 2 letters to each student how much did they WASTE in postage, ink, paper, envelope, time….

I am not going on and on about this but just wanted to see if other received duplicate letters in the mail.

Thanks,

Jeanie
ROANOKE

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Note from Dan: One of the things they use dues for is postage. Go figure.

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36 COMMENTS

  1. Suzie | August 8, 2012 at 9:46 pm

    These are the same people who needed restaurants taxed $4 million extra. Remember what happens when liberal bureaucrats get hold of money, people. They have NO incentive to be efficient.

  2. Dan Casey | August 8, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    Da Suze is on record supporting the meals tax increase in Salem, where it will be dedicated to the schools.

  3. Suzie | August 8, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    Da Suze is on record supporting the meals tax increase in Salem, where it will be dedicated to the schools.

    Dan lies, of course. Salem’s taxes won’t be as high as Roanoke City’s. Plus Salem’s is for a building project. It’s not just to keep funding ineptitude.

    I can’t imagine you’d see a private business wasting nearly a dollar on postage per person because of accidental multiple mailings. But see, in that case, it’s someone’s money.

  4. Contrasuzie | August 8, 2012 at 11:17 pm

    Da Suze is on record as being a hypocritical banshee in general.

    Hey Screwzie, was Jesus white?

  5. John Wilburn | August 9, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Ooh, I want to play too!

    Hey Suzie, was Jesus white?

    As a practicing “true” Catholic and self-proclaimed smartest poster the blog has to offer, aside of master’s degree matt, of course, surely you know the answer to this.

  6. Suzie | August 9, 2012 at 8:43 am

    master’s degree matt

    Pretty soon, John W is going to start calling him “college boy”. Insulting the educated is the last refuge of losers.

  7. Contrasuzie | August 9, 2012 at 9:54 am

    “Insulting the educated is the last refuge of losers.”

    But is it okay to insult the people who didn’t get the ‘right kind of degrees’, as you so often do? You know, like the one Pflugrad got despite having to beg to keep scholorship after her drunken slut pics got posted all over the ‘net?

  8. gdad | August 9, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    #6 suzie, you insult the educated all the time. You’ve just called yourself a loser. Congratulations.

  9. gdad | August 9, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    PS — It’s really cool that suzie has finally owned up to posting inane and nonsensical thing AND to being a loser. It’s about time.

  10. John Wilburn | August 9, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    “Insulting the educated is the last refuge of losers.”

    I’m not insulting him because he’s educated. I’m insulting him because he’s an a$$hole.

  11. Bob | August 9, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Y’all are LOOSERS! ha ha ha {umm, that was on purpose)

    FUSS

  12. matt | August 9, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    “I’m not insulting him because he’s educated. I’m insulting him because he’s an a$$hole.”

    Yikes. It’s painfully obvious I am getting to you. Sorry about that. Real men like you always hurl personal insults from the safety, comfort, and anonymity provided by the internet, eh John-boy? Lol.

    ;-)

  13. Art Hill | August 9, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Pass the popcorn…

  14. John Wilburn | August 10, 2012 at 7:55 am

    master’s degree matt:

    “Real men like you always hurl personal insults from the safety, comfort, and anonymity provided by the internet”

    How stupid. What an unbelieveably inaccurate statement from “matt”

  15. Marked Man | August 10, 2012 at 9:02 am

    Matt, how is he hiding? He even has a link to personal info about himself and within the last month there has been a pic of him on this very blog???

  16. Suzie | August 10, 2012 at 9:10 am

    5 Hey John W, did jesus wear purple socks? Huh? Notice John W won’t answer that question, folks. It’s because he’s a hypocrite.

    You keep dodging that question, sport. Why is that? So tell us. Did Jesus wear purple socks? Huh. Didn’t hear your response. LOL. Crickets. Wooohooo.

  17. Miriam | August 10, 2012 at 9:54 am

    Do we get to get our naps soon and juice boxes?

    Children, please.

  18. J.M.White | August 10, 2012 at 10:28 am

    I don’t know if I’d call it a “hurl”, matt; it’s more of a lob. Of course it looked like a “hurl” to you because you’re constantly patting yourself on the back with both hands; you’re basically defenseless.

    By the way, Mr. Wilburn is hardly anonymous. You can get all but his home address from the information he provides openly on this forum alone. He’d probably even give you the address if you had the spine to ask for it. I do like the irony of your statement, though, because your last name is what, now?

  19. dobbs | August 10, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Matt #12. Anonymity? His name is John Wilburn. Says so right there at the end of each of his posts. I, on the other hand, AM anonymous. Most people with a masters degree understand simple four and five syllable words, Matt.

  20. Sandi Saunders | August 10, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Lord have some mercy, oblivious matt does not even realize that John Wilburn is not in any way enjoying any “safety, comfort, and anonymity provided by the internet”. Truly son, stop digging, this is becoming embarrassing for Matt’s everywhere.

    Bob, go wash that Christian mouth out with some soap. Or at least put a penny on your arm to avoid the annoying skip in your record!

    Suzie, the disdain and insults you have hurled at many of the most well educated people on earth as well as your own haughty but seriously lacking ability to communicate should give you a clue about where you stand in the “Insulting the educated is the last refuge of losers” line. That would be near the end, under any rubric. Education and intelligence is much more than a piece of paper. You and matt have proven that beyond shadow of doubt!

  21. Dan Casey | August 10, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    Art Hill, welcome back!

  22. Dan Casey | August 10, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Jesus did not wear purple socks.

  23. Dan Casey | August 10, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    Master’s-degree matt doesn’t know the definition. of anonymity. Snicker

  24. Miriam | August 10, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Sandi – The penny on the arm reference took me way back in a good way. Dan, I thought Jesus wore purple socks…now I’m disappointed.

  25. matt | August 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    Actually, safety, comfort, and anonymity IS provided by the internet. It gives liberal sissies the confidence to spout off at the mouth and say things they would never say to someone’s face. That was my point, and Marked, Dan, J.M., John, dobbs, you guys all know that. I knew your response would be to whine that he has his first and last name posted. So what? Either way, I whittled ya boy down to having nothing left but insults. What can I say? That’s the route most of you take. Lol.

    Bachelor’s Degree Dano, still no comment from you regarding your epic failure of a post from the other day, huh? Lol. Can’t say I’m surprised. (SShhhhh, not many people have seen that thread)

    Sandi the truth monger with another appearance! I thought I was smelling something (again). It needs a bath, Dano.

  26. gdad | August 10, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    I see that matt had to sort of disappear after that embarrassment.

    I can also confirm that Jesus did NOT wear purple socks. Now when will you answer John’s questions, suzie troll?

  27. Warren | August 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Although master’s degree matt does have a confirmed bachelor’s degree, and has been urged many times to get a phDegree from the personal care aisle at Walgreen’s, speculation continues about his master’s degree. In light of his confirmed bachelor’s degree, he probably doesn’t have a masters in Einstein and Bohr, nor a master’s in Watson and Crick, but most likely got his Masters ‘n Johnson.

  28. Contrasuzie | August 10, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    The Jesus I believe in (and Limpballs will agree with me, I’m sure) wore purple ARGYLE socks. His big toe always poked out because they were holy socks! Hahahahaha!!!

  29. Marked Man | August 10, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    I don’t think John W. is a liberal or a sissy?!?

  30. John Wilburn | August 10, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    Suzie:

    16.”5 Hey John W, did jesus wear purple socks? Huh?”

    Well, I know two blacks guys who each wear purple socks, I guess it is possible.
    ;)

    masters degree matt:

    25.”Actually, safety, comfort, and anonymity IS provided by the internet. It gives liberal sissies the confidence to spout off at the mouth and say things they would never say to someone’s face.”

    There aren’t many promises in life anonymous “matt”, but here are two:

    1. I’m neither a liberal in the conventional sense, nor a sissy.

    2. There is absolutely nothing I’ve ever said about you on this blog that I would not say directly to your face.

    Those two statements are far more certain than the job-for-life that you mistakenly believe a masters degree guarantees you.

  31. dave | August 10, 2012 at 11:18 pm

    Warren
    Way too many esoteric references for masters matt. That kiddie lit degree is strained by anything deeper than Dr seuss.

  32. John Wilburn | August 10, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    “He’d probably even give you the address if you had the spine to ask for it.”

    That’s kind of funny because when Tommy Whitt was running for Montgomery County Sheriff, he got a kick out of my “Go Away” doormatt. When he came back running for reelection, he saw my sign that says “There is nothing here worth your life”.

    I actually use the back door, because I park at the back. Only Jehovah’s Witnesses, delivery people, and those campaigning for an office ever come to the front door, so I have fun with it. It’s great to see them walk up and hear them talk about it before ringing the doorbell.

  33. gdad | August 11, 2012 at 12:32 am

    #25 First, matt buddy, Marked is no liberal. He’s a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth wingnut. And then you claim that anonymity gives “liberal sissies” the confidence to spout off. As you spurt off from your anonymity. You don’t see some sort, of, er, problem with that?

  34. matt | August 11, 2012 at 11:19 am

    Wow!

    So many heads, just spinning away. It’s fun to watch. Thanks guys.

    And John:

    “2. There is absolutely nothing I’ve ever said about you on this blog that I would not say directly to your face.”

    If we were face to face…I doubt it. Lol. But, whatever makes you feel better.

  35. John Wilburn | August 11, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    “matt”:

    “If we were face to face…I doubt it.”

    Then come up and introduce yourself, since you lob your stuff from the safety of anonymity, I’d never recognize you. I prefer cordial discussion, but will own everything I’ve ever said to you. No problem.

  36. gdad | August 12, 2012 at 1:02 am

    #34 matt, absolutely nobody on here missed the fact that you criticized posting from anonymity — while posting anonymously.

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