Ranking pretty high on the fucked up meter


How would you feel if you came home and found a note in your mailbox from your neighbor urging you to call your debt collector?

Ashamed? Humiliated?

That’s how one Maryland woman said she felt after opening such a note. Her neighbor received a call from the company that financed her husband’s truck. He was past due on the payments.

“Now our neighbors are aware we were having these financial difficulties,” the woman said. “What the loan company did was just not right.”

It might not be right, but it is, for the most part, legal.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act allows companies to contact a third party to track down a debtor.

LA Woman73 shot this link to my neighbors mailbox.