Dear AT&T, My Dad is Still Dead

Post mortem bureaucracy

SG Buckley

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Photo by Miryam León on Unsplash

Dear AT&T,

Like I mentioned a while back, my father has passed. He died just before Christmas 2019.

Three weeks later, I gave you a call. I explained that my dad set up an AT&T account for my apartment in Florida because I lived abroad. He paid the bills with checks from my account. I asked if I could automate payments…

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SG Buckley

Writer, editor, parent. Former staffer at Quartz, WSJ and Inc. magazine.