Should I send the school a snotty letter

[pixiegumboot]

So request for milk money two Mondays ago (Paid this Monday, to another teacher not class teacher but not really relevant to this). Today received a copy of the original request with a red overdue stamp across it. No 'perhaps you've forgotten, or dear parent in case you didn't get the original letter can we remind you'. Nothing remotely polite.
Bear in mind this was not an invoice with a date due, it was a generic letter asking for money.

AIBU to complain about the lack of politeness? I am beyond pissed off at the sheer bloody rudeness of this and am currently composing a rather impolite letter by return. (In my head so far!)

They are generic letters. They aren't intended to be rude. But if people are ordering then they need to pay. It would be the same with a gas bill or phone bill wouldn't it?

Just cos it's a school doesn't mean they should feel bad for chasing money from.people who don't pay for what they ordered.

wonders why people even bother when surely there's milk at home that's cheaper and not dumped outside office doors whatever the weather

Giles no milk ordered here just a request to pay.

Then ignore. What's the issue.

Points removed for lack of comprehension skills for some of you

Fuck, and you're complaining that they're rude!!!!

partial.....daughter? no.

So sorry for my stupid mistake, my earlier post should have read:

Blah Blah blah... Then let them carry on doing what they are there for: educating your SON

Better now? I hope my careless mistake didn't make you seethe with rage.

Hang on I'm confused now.

You paid for milk but you didn't order milk?

Errrrr

We are talking about the school milk right? You order and pay according to entitlement?

So if you paid then you must have ordered???

Next time ask for a receipt in a gently Passive Aggressive sort of way.

It should be 'although if I were a parent in 2012' if you're going to nitpick other people's comprehension skills

Wow, just read your comment to partial. You are rude as fuck. If I had a little red stamp I'd stamp it on all your letters.

Well to be fair if everybody paid when they are supposed to then there wouldn't be any need for letters.

Pay it yearly then you won't have this problem. Job done.

Got to love aibu. [grin
Since we're all getting along so well, odd- that's grammar you're nitpicking not comprehension.
Dunno about the ordering of milk, we just get asked to pay every year.

Bloody hell, some people love to get the froth over the most unimportant things.

Go ahead, write your letter. Staff meetings are always looking for a little comedy relief.

My job and some voluntary work I do involves getting parents to pay fees..
It is a nightmare and I am much less diplomatic now -I understand how politeness may have gone by the by...
I have dealt with some of these people over years ..(over two groups) and it is always the same people who don't pay on time - I see the name on the list and I think great - good payer - or oh no here we go again.
They are bad payers for whatever reason - busy, disorganised, hard up.
Busy & disorganised I give them an option to pay for several months upfront or in instalments with the dates they are due - they can write cheques in advance or set up internet banking payments...but they don't every time I am chasing the same people...
(Hard up and they can talk to us and we can often work something out...and we tell them that but they often just avoid the issue)
It takes me 10 times longer than it needs to...especially keeping track when people get a new invoice (with overdue and due instalments) and they pay the first and last one but not the middle one...more often than not they do eventually pay all that is due but it is like pulling out my teeth without anesthetic...
Sometimes I feel like telling them to just fucking well pay!

Yes, I know I'm nitpicking grammar. Just pointing out that you're not really in a position to criticise comprehension given you don't seem able to construct a sentence.

My advice is make sure you let them know you have paid it and get it confirmed in writing.

I spent one Christmas desperately ringing the school, council and a baliff agency who were threatening to come to my house to chase up £21 of dinner money that I had paid in September. It was awful - school knew it had been paid and claimed they weren't sure how it got passed to the council, who also knew it had been paid and kept promising it was sorted. The baliffs were trying to convince me I should pay it again and then try and claim it back from the council and sent me a we will be visiting your property within 7 days letter 2 days before Christmas. Fun times.

OP if you send in a snotty letter then expect to have it returned with a big red OVERTHINKING stamp across it!

You have way too much time on your hands...

Oh for goodness' sake. Just write on the letter "Paid £xx.xx on XYZ date. Signed pixiegumboot" and send it back. Don't waste emotional energy on it.

Such nice manners you have OP :)

Write "Did you mean to be so rude?" across it in red pen and send it back.

You have stated that you do not like rudeness, yet you've been pretty rude to several posters on here...

I would write "paid on (date) to (teacher's name)" on it and hand it back in.

I worked in a school office. Never ending increase in work load due to never ending new government initiatives. I know your type OP. Entitled bolshy parent nightmare. Give them a break.

we only pay if we want it

If they'd sent you a letter saying "Give us our f**king milk money you stingy cow" then I'd say you had a point. What you received sounds absolutely normal for an overdue amount owing. The fact that you received it in error is probably the fault of the teacher you paid.

Seems like you have a lot of time on your hands so go for it.
Get a grip.