[Submissions_heralds] About that tracking info

[Kelly Wyatt]

Regarding the delay in payment from Kingdom, I can speak for Ealdormere. We 
are usually delayed in issuing payment because it has to pass through so 
many hands before going to Laurel.  As external submissions herald, I create 
the external letter on OSCAR and then send notice to Trillium and our 
Kingdom Exchequer that the letter's been created and that payment of a 
certain amount needs to be issued to Laurel. The Kingdom Exchequer then has 
to go about finding time to get to an actual bank in order to get US funds 
to issue payment.  Unfortunately, I've had to resend that notice and/or 
remind that payment hasn't been received yet a few times. If you get a 
distracted/busy Kingdom Exchequer, there's not a whole lot you can do but 
keep nagging them.

Cainder
off to write another nagging letter to her boss and the Kingdom Exchequer.

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MKA - Kelly Wyatt      kgarlow at sympatico.ca
SCA -Bantiarna Cainder ingen hui Chatharnaig
Seeblatt Herald, Kingdom of Ealdormere
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Justus, Fortis, Patiens - Per chevron argent and sable, two sprigs of witch 
hazel and a snowy owl counterchanged.





>From: Jacquie Ziegler <shauna at bresnan.net>
>Reply-To: A forum for Kingdom Submissions Heralds to be easily 
>contacted<submissions_heralds at lists.sca.org>
>To: SCA Submissions Heralds <submissions_heralds at lists.sca.org>, Principal 
>Heralds <principal-heralds at lists.sca.org>
>Subject: [Submissions_heralds] About that tracking info
>Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:04 -0600
>
>Greetings again!
>
>I got a couple of questions privately, but need to put the answers back out 
>to all on these lists.
>
>The information I put into the previous message is what I am showing as NOT 
>being 'in hand' prior to the decision meetings. If you look on the tracking 
>chart in OSCAR and there is a date in parentheses, there is something that 
>is not yet completed so the letter is not fully scheduled. There are two 
>things that affect this status - payments and packets.
>
>I put out the list of what is missing from my records - physical as well as 
>messages. Ansteorra does have their March packet in. I was very happy to 
>see all the Feb packets were in by the deadline. March packets are due to 
>me by the middle of May in order to be properly processed prior to the July 
>meetings. Those still not received for March are: An Tir, Atenveldt, 
>Drachenwald, Meridies and Outlands.
>
>Checks go to the Laurel Exchequer, and I can only remove them from my 
>listing after she A) receives the checks B) deposits or at least records 
>the payments and C) updates OSCAR. After she updates OSCAR, she sends me an 
>email so I can double-check things and then update anything I need to. For 
>whatever reason, most Kingdoms seem to be lagging behind in payments by at 
>least a month or two constantly. It would be really nice, as Elisabeth 
>Laurel noted, to get things all caught up before the transition to the new 
>Laurel and her team occurs.
>
>It is also good to not have potential admin returns for lack of payment 
>hanging over the heads of the heralds - that is NOT a return letter I would 
>want to write!
>
>Baroness Shauna
>Ragged Staff Herald
>
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