Re: [AGA-mcm] Whistling Past the Vault

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

Yes, thanks Scott! well done as always! Keep us posted on any new developments 
with TD (Short for Total Disaster?) Bank.

Regards,
Larry

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Whistling Past the Vault
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:38 PM
> Thanks for the info Scott!
> 
>   - Erik
> 
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, S. Hieber wrote:
> 
> > Some of you might have heard on the news or read in
> the newspaper about the current bookkeeping
> > mayhem that TD Bank has committed against some of its
> customers. TD, which absorbed Commerce
> > Bank a few months ago, in the last week has changed
> over all the Commerce customers to the TD
> > computer system. The result is that some folks have
> been writing checks against funds they
> > deposited but TD's system isn't, or hasn't in timely
> fashion, credited to their accounts. The
> > lines are long in New York outside the TD branch
> offices as the checks are bouncing higher than
> > the Empire State Building. I just wanted to let you
> folks know that I have been keeping an eye
> > on the AGA accounts during this computerized calamity
> and we appear to okay. Luckily, I didn't
> > place any deposits by hand during what will be known
> in some circles as the 5 days of the
> > banking black hole during which there was limited
> computer access to TD, account records were
> > expelled into the nether regions of of the universe,
> and deposits slipped through anomalies in
> > the space-time continuum.
> >  
> > Our accounts are reconciled, even if our fiduciary
> expectations are not.
> >  
> > Some of you might not have heard about any of this
> inasmuch as this news of most nonbanklike
> > banking event was displaced by the much more
> important news such as David  Letterman's sexual
> > transgressions and whether Chicago will win the
> international competition to lose a billion or
> > two hosting the 2016 Olympics. And you thought
> producing a convention was difficult! ;)
> >  
> > As it says in the HitchHiker's Guide, Don't Panic and
> always know where your towel is,
> >  
> > sh
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- Erik Olson           
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