In a message dated 3/23/2004 9:50:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, wb5igf@ipa.net writes:

I'm glad Chris has a copy of our petition with the REAL filing date stamped on it.

In my work circles crossing out a date and restamping or writing a new one would not be allowed without some written explanation. I guess that doesn't apply here, especially at today's FCC.

Is there any benefit in at least bringing this to their attention??

Joel

Here's what happened. We filed the petition via courier as we always do. The courier receipt shows that it was filed at the Massachusetts Avenue address where all FCC filings to the Portals must now go, since Anthrax screwed up the USPS worse than it was before. What was done with it after that is a mystery. The stamp shows that it was targeted at a "bureau" rather than the "office of the secretary", a matter over which we had no control. When Cross printed our petition off the ARRL web site, he wanted a copy of the stamped page to take down to the Secretary's office. We sent him a pdf file of the cover page showing the date stamp. He took that and the reconstituted petition down to the Secretary's office, and since that was the first they had seen of the petition, they say (despite the fact that they had it at Mass Avenue when we filed it) they gave it a new date stamp. I told Cross it didn't matter, since they were going to release it on PN shortly anyway. The PN should have been out yesterday, though, Cross had said. Anyway, a mystery never to be solved. All our other filings that went in that same day, via the same courier, for other clients were received fine. chris