u/immaterialraven

Hello, I'm here for any potential advice because I'm at my wit's end. I live in an apartment complex with 5 washing machines and 5 dryers. No matter which I use or what I do, however, there is ALWAYS a gigantic amount of lint that ends up on my belongings, and subsequently, my body.

Some of my clothes have looked almost ruined from how much lint had gotten on them in some loads, even. But generally, I can -somewhat- manage this with washing only my clothes alone. The worst situation I'm having, by far, is with my towels. I will ONLY wash my towels with other towels despite it burning through my wallet (coin laundry!) and yet my towels will shed off so much fabric onto the other towels that it literally doesn't matter which one I use (I have 6), I will look like a human lint roller if I try to dry off with any of my towels right now. And that's not an exaggeration, it's really that much lint coming off.

I wash them with one laundry pod and in the dryer, I will even put in multiple of these extra strong dryer sheets meant for pet hair (I was against dryer sheets in the past and still am on principle but I had to try this when I started suffering with this issue, it's only improved the issue by about 5-10%) *and* I also use wool balls. It doesn't matter what I use or which machines I use, there will inevitably be a coat's worth of lint on every single towel. Also, there's always much more lint (because apparently that's possible) when they're coming out of the washer than out of the dryer, so the dryers do marginally help with the lint which means that air drying is not a feasible option.

Does anyone have any advice on what I can do about this?

Hello. As the title states, I'm having an issue of being charged late fees for an invoice I've disputed (and still being expected to pay the original invoice as well), and since UPS is not responsive with me, I'm asking here for advice on any other channel I can contact before they attempt to send this to collections.

I received a package in October and was hit with an invoice for the duty charges just last month (surprisingly), but within was what I believe to be a mistaken 200% tariff charge for the "Russian Steel and Aluminum" category even though my item was nothing of the sort, which means I was being charged over $700 which I simply can't pay.

I reached out to the number and filed the dispute form they gave me and emailed it to gbapostentrydesk@ups.com as directed (twice in fact, a second time two weeks later with some adjustments just in case since I'd received no response). I also asked for who I can speak to for account services to put a pause on my charges while the dispute is ongoing, since I know it will take UPS a very long time to process this since it'll involve getting their own money back from US Customs. I was given the email for upsimporttemporaryaccount@ups.com, which I emailed regarding my invoice and also have received no response from whatsoever. I even emailed both sdfpostentrydesk@ups.com and aknentyrvw@ups.com not expecting anything from either of those emails, but simply to have it further in writing the effort I've taken to dispute this charge.

Since then, I've been sent two more envelopes in the mail regarding my original invoice and also regarding a new invoice for late fees on top of the original. It's clear that UPS is going to continue sending me further bills regarding this, even though my disputes are already clearly filed in writing to several different sources.

Does anyone have any advice on what I can do in the meantime to at least get any late fees taken off and no threat to collections while this charge is being reviewed? Thank you very much.