Protection

[Anakah]

I get all the weird stuff, I swear...

There was this woman with her kids up at the cage to cash a check. Don't worry this isn't an issue about fingerprints lol Well, we require a street address instead of a PO BOX and this is the responce I get:

WC: (Weird customer) I can't give that out, I'm under protection...

ME: Uh... Okay, let me go ask.

I don't know if she meant witness proctection or what but WHY oh WHY would you tell me that!?

I asked and my supervisor came out because it was so odd.

SV: Unfortunately we do require street addresses... Nobody see's them and we don't give them out to anybody.

WC: Okay, but put a note that I am under protection okay?

Both of us: Okay.

I got the address and sent her on her way.

Now, on the way out I hear this between her and one of her adorable children:

Child: Mom, I need to use the bathroom, please.

Mom: No! We are leaving you can piss your pants for all I care!

At that point she became a bitch. And also cashed a check for other reasons than gaming which sucks because we are not a bank. But I already knew she wasn't going to play it since she had all her kids with her and no sign of anybody else to take them if she played.

Now, I always thought in witness protection they gave you a new location, name, social, etc Why would she have stayed in the same place? I don't know if she meant the real witness protection or if she had some kind of restraining order or something. I was confused. But if she was in WP she's an idiot for telling anybody!!!

And her poor kid---take him to the bathroom! You had ten mins to stand there and do a check with me but not a few to let him pee? WTF?

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

There is a domestic violence protection program. Basically, a person can get all their mail sent to a P.O. Box, and then it is sent to their home address. It's used so that an abusive spouse can't contact a company and get their new address, even if they have the account information.

I was on that program after I left my ex.

She could just be on that.

[Merriweather]

I get all the weird stuff, I swear...

There was this woman with her kids up at the cage to cash a check. Don't worry this isn't an issue about fingerprints lol Well, we require a street address instead of a PO BOX and this is the responce I get:

I SO hate that rule. A few years ago my DH was posted to a tiny military facility up in the mountains in WV. We lived in a tiny town (just a crossroads, really) a few miles away. There was no mail delivery there, we had to pick up mail at the tiny post office. And the "street" we lived on was unpaved and unnamed, with no house numbers (our lease even said "x number yards from one street, x number yards from another" to the nearest named intersection. We absolutely had NO street address.

I couldn't order from the internnet or most catalogs, and it almost got my husband thrown in jail. We were visiting my mother in North Carolina, and he was stopped in a tiny town for going about 3 miles over the speed limit. The officer demanded his driver's license, which was from his home state (perfectly legal and legit for military members, rather than change every duty station). But our tags were from WV, so he demanded our address. DH gave him the post office box and town. He demanded a street address. DH calmly tried to tell him we didn't have one, and the cop was just about ready to toss him into the patrol car, argueing the point with him, telling him that we HAD to have one, he didn't believe him for a minute. Finally I took the risk (I was almost afraid of him drawing his gun at that point) and got out of the car, and showed him my WV license, which indeed, only had a post office box number on it (DH had forgotten about that, or just didn't think of it under the stress).

[Anakah]

I honestly don't get why we need a street address since we don't send mail or anything. Hell, I don't get why we ask for a social either. And its funny, everybody who ends up in collections the casino eventually gets tired of it and just writes it off. They wrote off this high roller for
75k. I don't get some of their policies.

I think we should just get telecheck again and have it be less of hassle and invading personal info. I actually feel like a total jerk for asking for some of these things.

[infinitemonkies]

I'm used to the idea of not having an actual street address.

I grew up on a farm, about 10 miles outside of the nearest town.
Our "street" address was "R.R. #1" (Rural Route 1) which included about 18 other farms nearby.

Several of my friends had much more remote farms, and would give addresses such as "about 2 minutes past the turn off from <whichever> road."

Finally, in the mid-90s, the govt decided to give each property a unique # along with a highly visible reflective sign to mount out by the mailbox for the purpose of informing emergency crews.

Imagine before: "Yeah, 911? I need an ambulance asap! Where? Well, y'all head down Snoogams rd, hang a left where that big tree used to be. Go 'long for about 4 minutes, then turn right when y'all come to the swimmin hole....."

[Flying Grype]

I grew up on a farm, about 10 miles outside of the nearest town. Our "street" address was "R.R. #1" (Rural Route 1) which included about 18 other farms nearby.

Wait a sec, are you my brother? Actually, he's in Vancouver, not Victoria...

I lived in that kind of place until I was sixteen. The directions included 'turn onto the gravel road, keep right until you pass the stone farmhouse, then turn left and go down the hill 1/4 km'. The mail carrier never had any trouble finding us, though. A couple of times we even got UPS deliveries.

After a while the emergency services instituted street numbers so that they could pinpoint rural route addresses more easily, and now everybody just uses that as an actual street address, even though it was meant for emergency services and not the mail.

[Jetfire]

I'm used to the idea of not having an actual street address.

I grew up on a farm, about 10 miles outside of the nearest town.
Our "street" address was "R.R. #1" (Rural Route 1) which included about 18 other farms nearby.

Several of my friends had much more remote farms, and would give addresses such as "about 2 minutes past the turn off from <whichever> road."

Finally, in the mid-90s, the govt decided to give each property a unique # along with a highly visible reflective sign to mount out by the mailbox for the purpose of informing emergency crews.

Imagine before: "Yeah, 911? I need an ambulance asap! Where? Well, y'all head down Snoogams rd, hang a left where that big tree used to be. Go 'long for about 4 minutes, then turn right when y'all come to the swimmin hole....."

Hehe Ron James has that sort of addressing as part of his act; going on about how to get an address in the Maritimes you need to know the history of the county because all directions are given like that. Granted the directions tend to give you that history lesson too but that doesn't help much. :P

Before 911 addressing, my family lived in "Rural Route 3 (RR #3)" which in our case was about 30 families, if not more along the road. Now we're actually a number along the road number. ( ### Route ###)

[PepperElf]

you know i don't know i they still do rural districts here still but i remember i lived in RD3 growing up. we had a street addy tho.

there IS one solution if you need a street address tho, but it does cost - get a box at the local UPS store, since they let you use the street address.

[dalesys]

Chuck Brodsky has a song about how to get to his place: "3rd Dead Cat"

[Thunder Mug]

I SO hate that rule. A few years ago my DH was posted to a tiny military facility up in the mountains in WV. We lived in a tiny town (just a crossroads, really) a few miles away. There was no mail delivery there, we had to pick up mail at the tiny post office. And the "street" we lived on was unpaved and unnamed, with no house numbers (our lease even said "x number yards from one street, x number yards from another" to the nearest named intersection. We absolutely had NO street address.

Always thought that was a strange place for a Naval base

[MadMike]

I'm used to the idea of not having an actual street address.

The area I grew up in didn't have street addresses either. Almost the entire county was very rural. Some of the streets were only route numbers, and even the ones that did have names didn't have house numbers. It was that way up until just a few years ago.

My dad still lives in that town, and the road he's on -- one of only two that pass thru that tiny town -- was a route number with no name until recently. They named it "Big Spring Road", for the next town a few miles west of there, which that road led to. Unhappy with having to put up a sign in his yard with a street address, he abreviated it out of protest. According to the sign he put up, he lives on "B.S. Road."

[Dips]

It doesn't matter why the OP's place of business requires a street address. You give them what they are for you don't cash your check.

It's simple, really.

Don't have a street address? No cash for you.

But I sympathize with you, Anakah. We can't deliver to a PO box so we need a street address for delivery.

People argue and we basically tell them the same thing. Some of them try to claim they don't have a street address. While that may be so for some, it means we can't do business with you. So sorry.

It's funny how many of them suddenly acquire a street address when they realize we aren't going to budge.

My second signature, though, was inspired by a customer of my husband's who took it even further. He had a customer who insisted they ship coins to him but refused to supply ANY address at all. And persisted multiple times in not understanding why that wouldn't be possible.

[firecat88]

Where I'm living right now, we have the weirdest street names. Some have numbers (24 Road), some have letters (D Road) and there are even weird combos of letters and fractions (Yes, we seriously do have a G 4/10 Road).

[Chromatix]

Where I'm living right now, we have the weirdest street names. Some have numbers (24 Road), some have letters (D Road) and there are even weird combos of letters and fractions (Yes, we seriously do have a G 4/10 Road).

Ah, must be like King's Cross around there then.

[Andara Bledin]

Where I'm living right now, we have the weirdest street names. Some have numbers (24 Road), some have letters (D Road) and there are even weird combos of letters and fractions (Yes, we seriously do have a G 4/10 Road).

I'm willing to wager that G 4/10 is .4 miles from G on the way to H, since most major city streets tend to be laid out at 1-mile intervals, with streets at every 1/10. Although, I seem to recall one place that had only 7 streets between major intersections; they seemed to decide that furlongs were a good unit for street distance. It would make for deeper parcels, at least.

^-.-^