{"id":13500,"date":"2026-04-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:20:48","slug":"that-one-thing-about-that-bank-of-america-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/that-one-thing-about-that-bank-of-america-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"That one Thing about That Bank of America Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: If you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, the specifics don\u2019t matter. But the general advice, <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/\">inertia kills<\/a><\/em>, <em>always applies. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you get a letter from Bank of America in the mail over the weekend, yesterday, or maybe in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/manage\/informed-delivery.htm\">Informed Delivery<\/a> today about that automatic thing? You\u2019re definitely not the only one, they\u2019re showing up in batches and in theory the jig is up on May 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you do if you\u2019re affected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hit it as hard as you can until you can\u2019t, the downside of doing so is minimal now<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find other regional versions of the thing, ideally more than one<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send (more) sirens in every chat room, but only if your name starts with a J and ends with an immy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But thinking bigger picture, remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/\">inertia kills<\/a> and you were just its latest victim if you don\u2019t have other plays waiting in the wings. Fortunately you can fix that going forward if you\u2019re scrappy. Always be probing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3389-1024x840.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13499\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3389-1024x840.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3389-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3389-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3389.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The normal BofA letters, on the other hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: If you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, the specifics don\u2019t matter. But the general advice, inertia kills, always applies. Did you get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-ms-hints","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13504,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions\/13504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}