[Mishmash] Patriot Act

[Fred Atkinson]

     Does anyone know anything about the Patriot Act (I don't mean what you've heard, but what you know for sure)?  

     I have a bank that is demanding my street address before they will process my paperwork.  I do not take mail at the street box (I almost never check it, in fact) but at my P. O. Box.  

     Every time I've told them not to send it to my street address (and I don't mean just them, I mean just about everyone that has ever asked for my street address), they send it there anyway.  And it always turns into some kind of disaster because it gets misdelivered or because I was sharing a place with other adults and didn't want them handling my financial or other private mail.  In this case, it's because I don't use the street box at all.  

     They say they can't do business with me without my giving up my street address due to the Patriot Act.  

     Once, American Express demanded it (also citing the Patriot Act) and I refused to give it to them for entirely legitimate reasons.  They said they couldn't process my application without it.  I said 'fine then, don't process it'.  Within a few days, the new card they were processing me for showed up in the mail.  

     I'm getting a bit annoyed by all these banks demanding information from you because of the 'Patriot Act'.  

     Regards, 



                                            Fred Atkinson