FW: Request for Postal Ballot
Vinod Negi
Dear Josephites,
Today is December 12, 2011.. and 11.15 Am in the morning. The Postman just delivered the mail and I quickly went to check if the ballot had arrived finally. NO.
I arrived in Washington DC, last night after two weeks and the first thing I did was check all my mail which my daughter had kept on my work desk. She has also been checking the mail every day for me.
I am now seriously wondering even with snail mail, it does not take 20 days for a mail from India. My sister’s rakish bandana envelop arrives each year without fail for the 23 years of the 26 yrs ( we were in India for three other Rakesh Bandanas) within 5-9 days!!!! And she sends it standard mail !!!
Below, is the postal receipt provided by Rakesh Jindey, the returning officer. If anyone can please verify with the post office if this is a correct and genuine receipt number (leaving no scope for any unintentional error) and let me know what is their estimated and expected time for such a mail to be delivered, I will be grateful.
Best Wishes,
Vinod S. Negi
ICSE 1977
From: Rakesh Jindey [mailto:r_ji...@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:51 PM
To: Vinod S Negi
Subject: Re: Request for Postal Ballot
Posted to you on 23/11 vide Postal Receipt No ARV208913432IN.
Col Rakesh D Jindey
From: Vinod S Negi <vinod....@assaygroup.com>
To: 'Vinod S Negi' <vinod....@assaygroup.com>; returnin...@sjaalumni.com; in...@sjaalumni.com
Cc: an...@psahotjobs.com; 'Nitin Kochhar' <nitin....@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 7:45 AM
Subject: RE: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Returning Officer,
As of date, I have not yet received my postal ballot. Could you be kind to
confirm if it has been mailed and when I should expect it?
Thank you,
Vinod S. Negi
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vinod S Negi [mailto:vinod....@assaygroup.com]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:35 PM
To: 'returnin...@sjaalumni.com'; 'in...@sjaalumni.com'
Cc: 'Vinod S Negi'; 'an...@psahotjobs.com'; 'Nitin Kochhar'
Subject: RE: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Returning Officer - SJA AA Elections Committee.
Please see attached a scanned copy of postal ballot request application. I
was informed that my membership application was submitted today 11/18/2011
to the AA.
I have left the membership # column blank for it to be completed by writing
down my membership #.
Further I am attaching a copy of my Federal issued passport card valid till
2020, Nevada State - Driver's License.
I maintain two homes and for purposes of India related activities, I am
listing down my residence address in Alexandria, Virginia.
A passport sized photograph is being attached to complete the application.
A copy of this email is also being marked to the in...@sjaalumni.com for the
membership authority to expedite the application.
Sincerely,
Vinod S. Negi
ICSE 1977
-----Original Message-----
From: returnin...@sjaalumni.com [mailto:returnin...@sjaalumni.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:30 AM
To: Vinod Negi
Subject: Re: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Mr Vinod
Despite the fact that you are living thousands of miles away, it is
heartening to see your desire to participate in the first election for the
Managing Committee of SJA Alumni Association.
However, ballots can only be issued to those who are members of the
Association for which the present MC may be approached.
We hope that you will appreciate that the membership application &
subsequent confirmation is the sole prerogative of the MC.
Fraternal regards,
Election Committee
Quoting Vinod Negi <vinodn...@gmail.com>:
> Dear Sirs,
>
>
>
> I have submitted my application for membership of the SJA AA. I
> understand it needs to be endorsed by two classmates that I was a student
at St.
> Joseph's Academy, Dehra Dun from 1974-1978 (Joining in Class 7 and
> passing out in 1978 after completing my ICSE). The signatures are
> being sought from Mr. Anuj Jain, Mr. Bharat Bhushan Singha, and
> possibly other classmates who may also be members of the AA.
>
>
>
> Further, I have school pictures with my class mates from Class VII (
> with Class teacher Mrs. Sircar ), Class VIII with Bro. Donovan and
> Class 10 with Mr. Kala. The pictures are posted for full public
> viewing on two Facebook pages St. Joseph's Academy ( administrator
Himanshu Chauhan) and St.
> Joseph's Academy Alumnus ( local Administrator - Rajeev Sachar). I
> have other sports pictures posted two. Ample proof of my being a
> student there during the period that I have listed.
>
>
>
> Once my application is approved I would like to request a postal
> ballot for the elections to be held in Dehra Dun on Dec 17, 2011.
>
>
>
> It is my hope that all this will be expedited in a timely manner to
> enable me to take part in an historic event in young life of the AA.
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
>
> Vinod S. Negi
>
> ICSE 1977
>
>
>
> Address for mailing the postal ballot.
>
>
>
> 1100 Quaker Hill Drive, Suite 406
>
> Alexandria, Virginia 22314
>
> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
>
>
>
>
>
>
Vinod Negi
You do not have to be formal with me. We must have been contemporaries in
school and more or less we are almost a few years apart, so please feel free
to address me as Vinod.
I find your email a little testy and rude. You are forgetting that I have
all the right to wonder and inquire why my ballot has not arrived in 20 days
when post has been delivered to me in the past from India within a
reasonable time period of one week - give and take a few days plus / minus.
No where am I accusing you of not sending me the ballot. Your present
responsibilities are that of a returning officer and not of a mind reader.
What is going on in my mind - you could have no idea unless you are a mind
reader. Yes, I need to verify if some digits could have been missing, the
address could have been possibly written incorrectly etc. I also need to see
if the item was genuinely mailed. Rakesh Jindey, the returning officer may
have in all good intention given the responsibility to a third person or a
peon and that third person/ peon could have made an unintentional error. Why
are you becoming so defensive and attacking my right to question you about
these possibilities?
And finally, I do not wish to be treated like Mussaddi Lal of the Office
Office fame. Please provide me the photocopies of the tracking page and I
will do my part of checking with the post office here in the US. I am sure
you have all the intent of mailing but at this stage, I have a right to
question the delay and also after due diligence on my part, your competency
in getting a sensitive work done in a timely and efficient manner.
Just so you are aware, a senior administrative/IT consultant who also
happens to be a Josephite, serving with the United States Postal Service
must have read this email and sent me a note - to let you know that the USPS
uses the latest and best technology of scanning and tracking. So please do
send me your evidence and I will be happy to clear the air for you.
Warm regards,
Vinod Negi
-----Original Message-----
From: returnin...@sjaalumni.com [mailto:returnin...@sjaalumni.com]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 12:45 PM
To: Vinod Negi
Cc: 'SJA Alumni Association'; stjosep...@googlegroups.com;
josephit...@googlegroups.com; 'Vinod S Negi'
Subject: Re: FW: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Mr Negi,
The EC wishes to inform you that it gives us no pleasure when a
member does not receive the ballot. It looks like you have started
thinking that the postal ballot was never sent to you. In case you
want further evidence whether the ballot was at all posted or Col
Rakesh D Jindey has put together a few digits and letters and created
a fake postal receipt No, then be gracious enough to ask for it from
the EC. Please find attached a scan of the postal receipt which anyone
can take to the Post Office in India to confirm its genuiness.
Please also find enclosed screencap of Mail tracking of your
package. The package has probably left the shores of our country on
25/11. It is in your great US of A that the package has got
lost/delayed. If Mr Aman's ballot can reach him on 07/12 and your
sisters Rakhi reaches in 5-9 days then how has your ballot got delayed
is a question which EC cannot answer. If there is anyone who can find
the answer to this it is you. You are once again requested to enquire
the whereabouts of your the package at your end.
Regards
Returning Officer
Quoting Vinod Negi <vinodn...@gmail.com>:
> Dear Josephites,
>
>
>
> Today is December 12, 2011.. and 11.15 Am in the morning. The
> Postman just delivered the mail and I quickly went to check if the
> ballot had arrived finally. NO.
>
>
>
> I arrived in Washington DC, last night after two weeks and the first
> thing I did was check all my mail which my daughter had kept on my
> work desk. She has also been checking the mail every day for me.
>
>
>
> I am now seriously wondering even with snail mail, it does not take
> 20 days for a mail from India. My sister?s rakish bandana envelop
> arrives each year without fail for the 23 years of the 26 yrs ( we
> were in India for three other Rakesh Bandanas) within 5-9 days!!!!
> And she sends it standard mail !!!
>
>
>
> Below, is the postal receipt provided by Rakesh Jindey, the
> returning officer. If anyone can please verify with the post office
> if this is a correct and genuine receipt number (leaving no scope
> for any unintentional error) and let me know what is their estimated
> and expected time for such a mail to be delivered, I will be
> grateful.
>
>
>
> Best Wishes,
>
>
>
> Vinod S. Negi
>
> ICSE 1977
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Rakesh Jindey [mailto:r_ji...@yahoo.co.in]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:51 PM
> To: Vinod S Negi
> Subject: Re: Request for Postal Ballot
>
>
>
> Posted to you on 23/11 vide Postal Receipt No ARV208913432IN.
>
>
>
> Col Rakesh D Jindey
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Vinod S Negi <vinod....@assaygroup.com>
> To: 'Vinod S Negi' <vinod....@assaygroup.com>;
> returnin...@sjaalumni.com; in...@sjaalumni.com
> Cc: an...@psahotjobs.com; 'Nitin Kochhar' <nitin....@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 7:45 AM
> Subject: RE: Request for Postal Ballot
>
> Dear Returning Officer,
>
> As of date, I have not yet received my postal ballot. Could you be kind to
> confirm if it has been mailed and when I should expect it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Vinod S. Negi
> Managing Director
> A C G, LLC
> ACG FOUNDATION ? Committed to Service (a non profit cooperative to assist
Vinod Negi
Dear Rakesh,
After looking at the attachments, I can figure out ( I think) why the postal ballot was delayed!!! The Street address is correct, the apartment # is correct and so is the pin code but the city and state are missing!!!! I am sure this mail has been going around the whole of the US looking for the City and State address !!!! Bravo EC.
I shall go to the post office tomorrow and see what really happened now. I think, it should have been tracked from the pin code and narrowed down to the city and State.
Now if the address is incorrect, I am expecting the Electoral Officer to accept my vote by another means. I hope you will be a gentleman enough to apologize for this oversight/error.
I will wait to hear.
Thank you,
Vinod Negi
From: Rakesh Jindey [mailto:r_ji...@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:42 PM
To: Vinod Negi
Subject: Re: FW: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Vinod,
Please find the scans attached.
Rehards
Col Rakesh D Jindey
Vinod Negi
Dear Alumni Managing Committee Officials and Members,
After having waited almost two months for the delivery of my postal ballot mailed to me on Nov 23, 2011, I regret to inform that as of date, I have not received any notification of delivery or the physical ballot at my address. I have checked at my end and also have got some reliable people to check at the other end ( India ). Unfortunately, the tracking number does not show up. If anyone within the Alumni Managing Committee cares, please be kind to check at your end and let me know what really happened to my ballot.
I would have let this go as a case of “lost in mail” but when I heard that Mr. Aman Singh who also resides in the US received his ballot on Dec 07th and I have yet to receive mine, it does look terribly odd that two ballots were mailed to the US on the same date, one was delivered and the other remains undelivered. Also, when we checked online, no information appears.
This is my formal request to the Managing Committee to investigate this matter and send me a satisfactory response about the whereabouts of the postal ballot.
I am requesting Mr. Raman Bhatia, Vice President, to please pursue this matter with the committee and I would like to have some written explanation of this matter.
Sincerely,
Vinod Negi
Member – SJA Alumni Association.
From: Vinod Negi [mailto:vinodn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:27 PM
To: 'Rakesh Jindey'
Cc: 'SJA Alumni Association'; 'josephit...@googlegroups.com'; 'SJA Alumni Association'; 'Nitin Kochhar'; 'an...@psahotjobs.com'
Subject: RE: FW: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Rakesh,
After looking at the attachments, I can figure out ( I think) why the postal ballot was delayed!!! The Street address is correct, the apartment # is correct and so is the pin code but the city and state are missing!!!! I am sure this mail has been going around the whole of the US looking for the City and State address !!!! Bravo EC.
I shall go to the post office tomorrow and see what really happened now. I think, it should have been tracked from the pin code and narrowed down to the city and State.
Now if the address is incorrect, I am expecting the Electoral Officer to accept my vote by another means. I hope you will be a gentleman enough to apologize for this oversight/error.
I will wait to hear.
Thank you,
Vinod Negi
From: Rakesh Jindey [mailto:r_ji...@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:42 PM
To: Vinod Negi
Subject: Re: FW: Request for Postal Ballot
Dear Vinod,
Please find the scans attached.
Rehards
To: returnin...@sjaalumni.com
Cc: 'SJA Alumni Association' <in...@sjaalumni.com>; stjosep...@googlegroups.com; josephit...@googlegroups.com; 'Vinod S Negi' <vinod....@assaygroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2011 5:03 AM
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