I am collecting my criminal records from the countries that I have lived in. So the story so far is this. A little over a month ago I sent my request to FBI. I chose to pay with my credit card and gave them the required information. In the mean while I was hunting down a bank that would give me a check in foreign currency (like USD would be nice). What my own banks told me was that they only do checks in euro. What other banks that I and my friends asked from said was that maybe, no, I don't know. So basically it was really hard to find a bank that said that yes we do create foreign currency checks. My boss tried to ask from his bank (they had created me few checks when I went to Florida) but they said that they didn't do those anymore. I knew that my brother had an account in a bank that did do them (but only for customers).
So I asked him if he could do it. He decided to check from another bank first (which is his primary bank and from where I received an answer maybe for clients). They informed that no problem, just come and visit a bank in person. (He sent a request via online bank.) First time he went, he went to the local bank at the town where he lives. The person there had no idea what he was talking about. Second time he went to a local bank near where he works (a bigger city near by). There he was able to sign some papers and all seemed good for go. Well they called him back about few details and he had to go back to sign some papers. They then promised to deliver the check to my local bank, and send me a txt when the check arrives (within a week).
In the meanwhile, I went to Bulgaria for a week! I took my credit card with me and some cash. I also had my phone with me. Both very important parts of this story ;)
When I was in Bulgaria and running low on cash, I decided to try to withdraw some cash. Well I wasn't too surprised when I was not able to do so. I thought that maybe this is because of the country that I am in. It had worked perfectly when I had used it the othertimes I was abroad. When I was abroad my friend had sent me few text messages that came to me on a loop. When I got home they stopped. We had arrived in the middle of the night. When I was sleeping in my bed I could bearly hear that I got few messages. In the morning that I looked at my phone I noticed that the messages that I had received at night were messages sent to me during the last couple of days. Not all of them had reached me while I was aborad. Funny thing few messages were from my friend that sent me the messages that were on a loop.
The next morning just before I went to the store to buy some food (as my fridge was empty) my phone rang. It was my credit card company. They wanted to know if I had tried to pay anything to FBI as they saw this payment and thought of it as funny. So they stopped all transactions on my card aka froze my card in middle of my vacation abroad... They had tried to call me, but the phone hadn't connected it. I assured them that Yes it was really me, who had done the order. Yes I want FBI to have my money! Then I was told that now my card was unfrozen again and I would be able to use it again...
Next day I went to the local bank where the check should be sent to. I went to ask if there was anything for me as I had this creapy feeling that there might be. First she checked with my name and found nothing (weird as it was promised that I could picked it up with my name) and then I was asked to tell my brothers name and birthday. Luckily that was enough and she found the check! BTW, I told my brother about this as well and he said that the bank hadn't informed him either (dah you also inform the party who requested the check).
So now I had all the papers that I needed to sent the request to Grenada. I remembered that DHL had advertised their low low price of 30 euros and up. So I went to check the site... Oh but to my surprise to deliver the papers to Grenada it would cost me over 100 euros. I also checked TNT and UPS... All were too high for me. So I did something that I though I would never do. I went and check if our postal service would have something similar to the fast service. Well I found an express fast letter which had similar delivery times as the DHL, FedEx, TNT and UPS. The price was stagering 11 euros.
As I had promised my sister that I would take my niece and nephew to their day care, she took me with her to see where the day cares were located. She then dropped me off to the post office just before 8 and went to work. To my surprise the post office did not open untill 9! So I walked to my school and hoped that I would be able to make the post office before 17 when the post is sent out for the day. I was there 20 minutes before the post would be picked up and there was line almost to the door! All I could do was to look at the watch and hope I would make it. After having informed what I want, and having layed all the necessary stickers the post lady ran to the man who was picking up the post and it made to this days delivery!
So now all I need to do is the return mail...with my Criminal Records I hope!
