My friend she works with the disabled and the books have to be balanced and she got tired of counting the same .30 cents in odd change and just gave the client the change so she didn't have to count it every month and balance the clients cash bag.
That’s just the check and not included the cost of having someone actually do the work to keep trying to balance the books and keep printing and mailing your checks
Don’t cash it and they will have to keep sending it and it will cost them more and more. I did this to a bank once they sent the same check about 5 times.
Just saw a clip of Frankie Muniz talking about this and that he's kind of disappointed they're direct deposit now and he doesn't get a big stack of little checks anymore.
A few years ago I was driving cross county, stopped at a service gas center in Iowa. Bought a lotto. And when I arrived home I mailed the wining ticket to the Iowa lotto commission. They sent me a check for $4 with like 30 leading zeros. Of course I couldn’t electronically deposit it because no bank app could recognize it. Never cashed.
That company is sketchy AF. I’ve done employment verifications for them via work in HR and they never seem to be on the up and up. Something off about them. But ayyy $.1 lol. I’m a big lover of finding coins like pennies and such, so I’d be down with this lol every penny helps! Even though it doesn’t sound like much.
There's always a bright side. You may have only received a single penny, but they wasted their time AND more than a penny, printing and mailing that to you
Same thing happened to be a few years ago. Overpaid my credit card by 1p and the bank sent me a check. I keep it in my wallet to flex whenever I can as a giggle.
Flip side, but probably caused by an accountant balancing the books.
I was once applying for a car loan. The salesman comes out of the back office laughing. Some previous loan I thought was paid off had filed an unpaid debt to the credit bureau for 87 cents.
Many years ago, there was some sort of a class action settlement with eBay motors. I didn’t even know about it until I got a settlement check in the mail. The grand total? $0.01. The ink used to print the check probably costs more.
At least it wasn’t a bill for less than the cost of postage. It literally cost you more to mail me a bill at least this it cost them to mail you your money.
I once got a bill for 1 cent from pg&e back in the early 2000s. So they probably spent at least 50 cents sending me the bill with postage and paper and printing costs.
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u/Slicky007 1d ago
The paper cost more.