Apparently, there’s no expiration limit for how long you can live in a country and still do stupid things. I’d been feeling pretty proud of myself for handling the move to the new apartment smoothly, notifying skatteverket or the tax authority and even paying for the adressändring or address change service. A vendor at Hötorget food hall yesterday had complimented my Swedish and we had a long conversation – in Swedish – about where I was from, what I was doing here, etc.
But I had been noticing that while we had received a few pieces of mail, we were not getting our usual allotment. So I called up the folks at adressändring to see what was going on. I started explaining the problem in Swedish, then asked to switch to English to make sure that everything was absolutely clear. And yes, I had screwed things up. Because right there on the bank girot – the part of a bill that you pay – was a section that I needed to sign and send back. All of which I translated myself while I was on the phone with the adressändring guy. I just hadn’t realized it was there. Oh well. The signature is in the mail now. As for where all our mail is from the last few weeks and whether we will ever get it, that’s another story.
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Glad your Swedish is getting better. My last trip–this weekend cost a thousand dollars extra because I didn’t call the travel agent back in April and actually tell her the final revised booking was acceptable. I checked SAS 5 days later using the booking reference number and they had the reservation so I assumed all was well. WRONG. But because the travel agent never paid them, SAS canceled the booking with out notifying me. The travel agency says it was all my problem (getting someone around here to take responsibility for mistakes is like getting someone to admit responsibility for the sinking of the Vasa)
Don’t worry about your mail. We missed some bills. Fortum sent the unpaid bill immedaiatly to a collection agency which sent us two letters in two weeks (which we didn’t get, cuz we weren’t getting mail). Each one adding a steap fine. On the third week they sent it to Kronofogen and you know what that means.
This is not a service economy. Customers are expected to do more than their part.
Oh Tom, that made me laugh out loud. We’ve all been there and can sympathize, obviously. The “you mean you didn’t know that”…. thing gets old fast.
https://www2.adressandring.se/kundtjanst/information-in-english
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Roger…you made me laugh with that little link! Sandra…we’ve all been there!
Thanks Roger–ha, ha! I am taken care of now. Maybe.
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