{"id":323817,"date":"2025-10-22T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:32:10","slug":"city-knowingly-overcharging-for-trash-bins-is-a-scam-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323817\/","title":{"rendered":"City knowingly overcharging for trash bins is a scam \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cRollout of city trash service pressing forward\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/10\/19\/new-garbage-cans-subsidies-and-signups-heres-how-san-diegos-paid-trash-pickup-rollout-is-going\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oct. 19<\/a>): I own a house in the city. At my tenant\u2019s request, I ordered the least expensive bundle of trash bins. When I received my property tax bill for that property, I was charged for the largest size trash bins, $120 more than stated on the city\u2019s website for what I ordered. When I questioned the department in charge of this matter, I was told I would be billed for the largest bin bundle for this tax year and would receive a credit on next year\u2019s property tax bill. I was told this was in the pamphlet the city sent me. It was but was buried on the back page. Shame on the city for overcharging on this year\u2019s tax bill to receive significant funds now and for failing to clearly advise homeowners from the start about this scam to receive more upfront money.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joseph Fox, La Mesa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cRollout of city trash service pressing forward\u201d (Oct. 19): I own a house in the city. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-323817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115417837975481503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}