NSW: SOCOG re issues cheques after mailing blunder

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2000
NSW: SOCOG re issues cheques after mailing blunder

More than 9,000 people who missed out on Olympics tickets will finally receive their
refund cheques next week, more than two months later than promised.

Red-faced Olympics officials say a processing blunder at the Olympic mailout centre
meant the tickets hadwere not printed during the massive mailout of 68,500 cheques last
November.

It is the latest in a string of SOCOG mishaps, including the multi-million dollar budget
shortfall, the ticketing fiasco and the marching bands saga.

SOCOG had initially blamed the refund error on a heavy …