Being I am a senior citizen, I am very careful of the bills that I pay. Last week, I got the renewal notice for my daily home delivery of the Sun Sentinel newspaper. Since I pay every three months, my January bill of $50.35 indicated that I was paying for delivery through Apr. 11.
My new bill that I just received last week showed an increase up to $63.09 and that the expiration date of my former bill only paid me through Apr. 4 — not the date of Apr. 11 as indicated in the January invoice. Thank goodness I looked back at my January bill or I would not have known this.
I immediately called the 800 number and was fortunate, after punching and punching on my phone, to reach a gentleman in MANILA. He pulled up my records and rectified this error.
What I want to say to all Sun Sentinel subscribers who have home delivery is this:Be sure to keep good records of the dates you are paying for. When that bill comes in and you are writing that check, go back to the old one and check the dates you are paying for. To have your invoices back-dated, as mine was, for only one week, amounts to a lot of money and just who is paying for this? We, the ones who are getting home delivery, are.
I do not know who is responsible for this but as I told the man in Manila, I don’t think that I can be the only one.
Virginia French
Deerfield Beach
Transportation cuts hurting riders
Dear Editor:
Tri-Rail is handling record numbers of riders to get them to their jobs from Palm Beach to Miami and all points in-between. Yet, Tri-Rail claims rising costs are forcing it to cut 20 trains on weekdays and to eliminate all weekend service.Good luck all you workers, tourists and students. Many elderly residents of Broward County who can no longer drive have depended on free Broward County bus transportation to get them to doctor’s offices and grocery stores. But the county recently discounted all free bus transportation for them, claiming it had run out of money. Good luck all you seniors! However, mysteriously, there is enough money in the municipal piggy bank to pay for a $515 million — costs will no doubt escalate fast once construction begins — state-of-the-art ballpark for the Marlins, a team that has, for years, ended up dead last in attendance figures for all Major League ballparks nationwide. Average attendance per game last year was just over 16,000, far less than half the capacity of the planned new stadium. And some games attracted as few as 500 fans. In addition, while Tri-Rail and Broward buses service South Florida residents year-round, the Marlins’ new multi-million dollar digs will operate only during baseball season. Good luck all you Florida taxpayers! You, who depend on municipal transportation, get shafted by the politicos while a handful of baseball fans get the red-carpet treatment. No wonder we continue to be the laughing stock of the rest of the country.
