So, after contacting FCO about their collection, they send me a bunch of documents, including what seems to be a letter from the OC sent 7/23/12. I never received this letter, go figure(the owners of this apartment complex are known to be unscrupulous). So looking at it, I found it pretty peculiar that:
1) The Certified Mail Numbers were partially cut off
2) There is no address on the Certified Mail receipt, since people would likely write who they're sending it to (at least I do).
3) The Receipt conveniently covers the address block, obscuring the address where they mailed the letter.
So maybe they did mail it - to an address I no longer resided. Although, their included statement has my current address (and old name) and a statement date of 7/23/12, the OC was never given my current address, as I indicated a PO Box on my move out form, so the first time they would have known of this address was after I contacted FCO.
Wanting to determine an actual mailing, I used a certified tracking receipt I have and tried to match the bottom half of the numbers on their receipt to actual numbers based on the look. Then, using Excel, I came up with ever possible combination I could think of for the numbers, ensuring I captured the difficult ones with all its possibilities(i.e. I have no clue what the 15th number is so I tried 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8). In all, I came up with 684 possible tracking numbers. I then used the USPS site to find statuses on each of those numbers. Only 6 came back as valid tracking numbers - 1 in 2013, and 5 in 2014. Obviously, none were from this company to me.
So, my questions are: Should I ask FCO for a complete tracking number since the OC claims they sent it certified mail? Should I ask for the original letter from the OC without the address block obscured? What happens if there is no tracking information to indicate the letter was ever actually mailed?
