Bureaucratic banking solution
published: Friday | December 30, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

HERE IS my advice to the writer of the article 'Bureaucratic Banking Nightmare', which appeared in the Financial Gleaner on December 16, 2005.

Before your niece can open an account, the bank requires a post-marked letter addressed to her to prove that she lives at the address she claims. Instruct your niece to do exactly what the authorities expect her to do and behave like Brer Anancy. Simply address an envelope to herself, slap a postage stamp on it and drop it in the mail. Within two to three weeks, the empty envelope will arrive at her gate. Open it in the usual manner and use it as proof of your address. It's that simple.

The fools who make laws in this country think that the citizens are all idiots. Let's show them that we are smarter than they and just get on with our lives.

I am, etc.,

S. DAVIS

ttsdavis@hotmail.com