Anyone who’s received a traffic camera ticket in Cleveland knows it’s all about the details. Those lovely notifications arrive in your mailbox bearing the time, location, speed, date of your infraction, and a handsome photo for your scrapbook.
But it seems the finer points don’t go both ways. Envelopes recently mailed from Cleveland’s Ministry of Traffic Sphincterism arrived bearing one glaring mistake: Privileges was misspelled “privilages.”
Spokesman John Galic says only a few recipients pointed out the error, likely because citizens expect no more from their government than approximations of competence. Or because they have no idea how to spell privileges either.
Rest assured, those responsible for the misspelling have been sacked. “We are now in the process of switching print vendors,” says a spokesman for Affiliated Computer Services, the company that supplies the city’s envelopes. “The printing error did not cost the city any added expense.”
ACS declined via e-mail to estimate how many bad envelopes had been mailed, but did so without a single misspelling.
This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2011.
Didn’t anyone from the administration proofread and sign off on the proof? I’ve never had a print job where I didn’t. I think firing the printer is just passing the buck. Someone needs to take responsibility for the government’s lack to professionalism.
Government and lack of professionalism kinda go hand in had, don’cha think??
Misspelling privileges is unconstitutional!
Affiliated Computer Services has taken control of 26 federal and most state agencies and even one may be paying their car loan to one of their numerous subsidiaries that are part of an international, interlocking cabal that past Congresses gave full immunity form criminal investigations and can’t be internally audited. No govt official has power over them, and files and monies are missing in many agencies on my case alone. Worse is they will soon become those infamous ‘ death panels ‘ for all as they will be regulating all health care plans in 2014 as OPM contractors. We feds already know how deadly this can be when ones state medical school and clinic has a subsidiary as billing and management and must bill Federal workers comp which has hi jacked that program. All info whether paper or It goes to them first and they decide what even administrative judges are allowed to see. Ask your candidate if they will pass one simple bill to correct this: make all govt contractors equal before the law. Allow criminal investigations and prosecutions and periodic internal audits of use of our tax dollars as once occurred. Even judges’ orders can’t get to the govt official as medicare coordination of benefits, a govt contractor said: we don;t care what a judge says and violated their US Dept of labor contract by altering who pays first of my insurances to facilitate the ongoing going trillions stolen from Medicare by unaccountable govt claims processors. even getting appellate judges rulings that Fed workers comp should repay medicare for oxygen ended up in the ‘ trash’ at ACS along with 11 years of unprocessed oxygen claims and telling suppliers I got a million dollars to pay them which is not true and isn’t even possible by fed law. Giving an order a decade ago to let her die.Watch out for those yellow lights that turn red too fast and cause a ticket to be sent if one survives the car crash it caused. Linda Joy Adams