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Santiago
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[*] posted on 3-9-2011 at 09:30 AM
Watch those dates on forms.


An interesting story from Fulano's blog here. Regardless of what you may think of the entire issue, a lot of the problem seemed to be caused because the date on the insurance form was filled out m/d/y instead of d/m/y.

With that, out popped from the back room the man running the office. He knew all about the whole incident…. He said it was his mistake…. He was the person that told the police the Morris's had no insurance. He was very sorry and assured us every expense would be taken care of. It seems the problem was in reading dates. In the US we write month, day, year. In Mexico, they write the day first. So when he looked up the renewal payment, it appeared not to be in effect.
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[*] posted on 3-9-2011 at 12:27 PM


Another thing I have to pay attention too , back in the day,
like 25 yrs. ago, it was nothing for me to travel the
peninsula no insurance, beer in hand. Ignorance is bliss?
I suppose I wasn't the only one. Then or now.
A little 'smarter now',?, all i's and t's dotted,etc. A folder full of
Mex Ins, fmm's, add to it, dates on the Ins form
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[*] posted on 3-9-2011 at 05:35 PM


Not sure why, but your post triggered the idea that the US is a total laggard when it comes to metric measurement. Seems like decades ago, we sort of had a resolve that we were going to convert.

lb. sand?
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