Excellent work. Thank you for keeping them aware of our position.
Sent from Ila's iPhone with a mind of its own.
On Jul 4, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Julia Pond <juliapond@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Remember how Hamstreet pledged to provide “regular updates” and paid a
communications firm to construct a website which has so far been used to
provide information at a rate slower than the postal mail? Today I sent
AEMReceiver this email with subject “Regular updates”:
Hi,
It would be good if we could get just a bullet list per week on findings and
activities. That is not too much to ask. A simple list: “This week, we:”
followed by “Next week, we plan to:”. “ A summary of the court filings by
Hamstreet and others with results/implications would also be important for
creditors to know. However long it takes”, is an unsettling phrase to people
who have been kept in the dark a long time already.
You have constructed a website that has not been updated, save for the
Documents section, and thus has no advantage over a postal mail packet that
arrived weeks ago. The landing page contains stale information, which really
should be updated weekly in support of your claim that you paid for the
website for the purpose of communication superior to postal mail. That
landing page could provide one place where creditors could get a snapshot of
the process as it unfolds. You have failed to acknowledge (after seeing most
of the group in person) that the creditors are older people who are not
digitally savvy, so it would be of benefit for them to have one place, one
link to visit for a summary.
If this arrangement truly is for the benefit of creditors (who sat unpaid and
in the dark for many weeks on end before this arrangement came into being),
you really should at this point have some empathy for the creditors’
perspective: what happened to our money? Also, you are making money hand over
fist when many people are in dire financial straits because of this. This
creates and sustains ill feeling, understandably. Sharing information about
the process (since it is advertised to to be to our benefit ultimately) might
be somewhat mitigating. We have been told we will see no money this year, but
it also appears we will remain in the dark without information.
You have pledged transparency and a commitment to communication. You tout
your firm’s fine reputation. When will you put these things into practice?
Julia Pond
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Julia Pond
juliapond@xxxxxxxxxxx
