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Rejection Letter Of The Day: A Firm That'll Make You Pay Proper Postage To Be Rejected

It'll cost you around $5 to find out you didn't get the job.

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These days, when a law firm decides to pass on your job application, you’ll be lucky if you ever receive a response. Some firms, however, are old-fashioned in that they believe in common courtesy. If you send them an email or a rare hard-copy application in the mail, they’ll eventually send you a response in due course.

Unfortunately, even firms that mean well are capable of completely screwing things up. Earlier this week, we heard from a tipster who received a rather costly rejection letter:

Got this in my P.O. box and couldn’t figure out how a letter could have so much postage due. Called the post office and found out it was from a law firm I had interviewed with a couple of weeks prior. They had added tracking but there isn’t tracking available on first class mail, so the post office upgraded it to priority mail and sent me the postage due notice.

Did this would-be lawyer ever pick up the letter? Our tipster says, “Because people call to hire but mail rejections, I’ve decided not to pay the $5.47 to read, ‘Thanks but no thanks.'”

Have you received a rejection letter so bad it was good? Please send it our way by email, subject line “Rejection Letters.” We’ll read all the submissions and share our favorites.

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