That is not to be expected at all. Corporations ought to have good customer service. If they did, they would be successful. Look at the airline industry. Horrible service, force people to endure gropings and x-rays, make them wait around on airport ramps for hours at a time, tiny seats with no legroom. And the airlines are all doing poorly, other than Southwest which notoriously treats their customers better.
Then look at the cruise line industry. Treats the customers like kings and queens. Provides shows, all night buffets, a different interesting destination every day. And they are doing very well.
That doesn't always work. When I moved from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, the carrier I had did not provide coverage in my state. They STILL would not waive the fees. I finally got them to reduce it to half.
If the fee is mandatory and not voluntary and the customer has no choice about it, then it is a cost of doing business and should be included in the carrier's cost and not passed to the consumer. If they need to raise their prices to cover it, that is fine, but advertising a price and then tacking a non-voluntary fee on is dishonest.
If my car is damaged by someone else, i don't get my insurance company involved at all. The less they know, they less likely they will raise your rates. I would only get my insurance company involved if the other party refused to pay for the damage.
That makes them professional special effects artists. It doesn't make them professional ballistics experts, or professionals in about 90% of the stuff that they do. It only makes them professionals in those 10% of episodes where they fake up something at the end to show how a video was faked. The rest of that stuff, they have no business doing and are just as likely to have an accident as you or I, except that they probably have professionals helping them that only rarely appear on camera.
The fact is, without USPS, there are addresses that FedEx won't deliver to.
We can't know that for sure until there is no USPS. If USPS goes away and Fedex abandons some areas, then you are right.
Public companies exist soley to raise their stock price any means necessary by utilizing creative financial ratios. CEOs get their raises or get fired by them.
That's not what public companies USED to exist for. They USED to exist ti make profits and pay dividends. Now, every shareholder imagines themselves to be a daytrader and insists that if the stock price doesn't go up, then the company is doing something wrong.
Don't sell yourself short. An MBA can be a great employee. But you also have to look at his/her resume. Any MBA school worth their salt will not accept a person into the MBA program unless they already have management experience. Neither should you accept an MBA as an employee unless they had management experience prior to obtaining their MBA.
In some cases, they utilize USPS for the "last mile".
That may be so, but USPS also utilizes Fedex, UPS, and various airlines for some of their trunk routes.
I should have said "partially suspend". You should be paying 1/3 less towards your retirement
Oh, yes, it definitely went down to 4.2%. The company still has to pay 6.2%, so still about 10.5% of my salary is going to fund SS. However, I am not putting 1/3 less toward my retirement, just toward SS. Thanks to this change, the amount going toward my retirement has INCREASED.
By law, the USPS is mandated to provide universal delivery.
I am aware of the law, but apparently there are loopholes. My friend does not get mail delivery. However, there is a loophole in the law that says that if they do not feel like providing you with home delivery service, they can instead offer you a base model post office box for free. My friend gets FedEX and UPS deliveries, but USPS will NOT deliver, mail or packages.
It is quite a nuisance, because a lot of companies will not take a PO BOX as a valid address for shipping. Also, sometimes places will ask for an address and he has to specifically note that he cannot receive mail there, but they will sometimes go ahead and send it there anyway, and then get it returned.
We should not force the USPS to fund their pensions fund, but neither should we give them tax free status on land purchases, sales tax, traffic ticket exemptions and so forth. If they want to be independent, make them independent.
You get bills and checks in the *postal mail*??!! man, you're doing it wrongly. I'm all online and EFT with that stuff.
Sorry, but I don't find it "convenient" enough to pay their "convenience fees" which are more expensive than 4 stamps and when in fact all the convenience is on their side since they don't have to pay someone to open and handle the mail.
That is anecdotal (and from some posts below, also still nowhere near a bargain). From my location, I looked at rail as a possibility to go to Disney World with my family. It ended up being much more expensive than air, and was going to take 100 times as long. FWIW, driving ended up being the cheapest option, even though it took four times as long as flying would have.
Except going to the post office to pick it up is already more than the cost of one first class stamp if you live further than half a mile from the PO. And your box might be empty. I for one DO have a PO Box for our business, and I always thought it would be a good idea for the USPS to offer the service of some sort of notification that an item or items are IN your PO box. In fact, for what I pay for a PO box, I would expect something like that to be included. In fact, the information is all already there in the system for them to do things like tell you the number of items that were put there on a given day AND at least the zip+4 where they originated and possibly more information.
Anybody with a smartphone believes that. Webpages are chock full of cruft these days. Mostly advertisements, with all kinds of flash and images. And of course they are loaded first. Sometimes the advertisements take so long to load that they are refreshing before you have even got to the content of the page.
I wonder if browsers will still allow you to turn off images like they used to do back in the dialup days.
The USPS plan to fund their crazy generous pension plan is to increase the volume of junk mail.
Being that we are entering into winter and the cost of natural gas and firewood is increasing, their ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletter.
It's trivially easy to find someone on facebook or similar and email them.
Unless of course, they are not ON facebook or similar. granted, I guess you have a similar problem if the person you want to invite is homeless.
I was thinking more about FedEx and UPS not delivering to the destination, as they're not required to (and do not) deliver everywhere like the USPS. Fedex does deliver to all addresses. Don't know about UPS. USPS does not.
Isn't not charging them money that they would normally have to pay pretty much the same thing as giving them money? From the economics side of thing, it works out the same way.
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All the companies scored 0 out of 10, so they just drew straws to determine the worst.
That is not to be expected at all. Corporations ought to have good customer service. If they did, they would be successful. Look at the airline industry. Horrible service, force people to endure gropings and x-rays, make them wait around on airport ramps for hours at a time, tiny seats with no legroom. And the airlines are all doing poorly, other than Southwest which notoriously treats their customers better.
Then look at the cruise line industry. Treats the customers like kings and queens. Provides shows, all night buffets, a different interesting destination every day. And they are doing very well.
Unfortunately, getting yourself reduced to a 0 or 1 will probably affect your credit and your ability to get signed on with another carrier.
That doesn't always work. When I moved from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, the carrier I had did not provide coverage in my state. They STILL would not waive the fees. I finally got them to reduce it to half.
If the fee is mandatory and not voluntary and the customer has no choice about it, then it is a cost of doing business and should be included in the carrier's cost and not passed to the consumer. If they need to raise their prices to cover it, that is fine, but advertising a price and then tacking a non-voluntary fee on is dishonest.
If my car is damaged by someone else, i don't get my insurance company involved at all. The less they know, they less likely they will raise your rates. I would only get my insurance company involved if the other party refused to pay for the damage.
Are you kidding? This is mythbusters. They probably had a camera mounted on the cannonball.
That makes them professional special effects artists. It doesn't make them professional ballistics experts, or professionals in about 90% of the stuff that they do. It only makes them professionals in those 10% of episodes where they fake up something at the end to show how a video was faked. The rest of that stuff, they have no business doing and are just as likely to have an accident as you or I, except that they probably have professionals helping them that only rarely appear on camera.
The fact is, without USPS, there are addresses that FedEx won't deliver to.
We can't know that for sure until there is no USPS. If USPS goes away and Fedex abandons some areas, then you are right.
That's nothing. Throwing away money on frivolous toys has outperformed my investment accounts.
Public companies exist soley to raise their stock price any means necessary by utilizing creative financial ratios. CEOs get their raises or get fired by them.
That's not what public companies USED to exist for. They USED to exist ti make profits and pay dividends. Now, every shareholder imagines themselves to be a daytrader and insists that if the stock price doesn't go up, then the company is doing something wrong.
Don't sell yourself short. An MBA can be a great employee. But you also have to look at his/her resume. Any MBA school worth their salt will not accept a person into the MBA program unless they already have management experience. Neither should you accept an MBA as an employee unless they had management experience prior to obtaining their MBA.
In some cases, they utilize USPS for the "last mile".
That may be so, but USPS also utilizes Fedex, UPS, and various airlines for some of their trunk routes.
I should have said "partially suspend". You should be paying 1/3 less towards your retirement
Oh, yes, it definitely went down to 4.2%. The company still has to pay 6.2%, so still about 10.5% of my salary is going to fund SS. However, I am not putting 1/3 less toward my retirement, just toward SS. Thanks to this change, the amount going toward my retirement has INCREASED.
By law, the USPS is mandated to provide universal delivery.
I am aware of the law, but apparently there are loopholes. My friend does not get mail delivery. However, there is a loophole in the law that says that if they do not feel like providing you with home delivery service, they can instead offer you a base model post office box for free. My friend gets FedEX and UPS deliveries, but USPS will NOT deliver, mail or packages.
It is quite a nuisance, because a lot of companies will not take a PO BOX as a valid address for shipping. Also, sometimes places will ask for an address and he has to specifically note that he cannot receive mail there, but they will sometimes go ahead and send it there anyway, and then get it returned.
We should not force the USPS to fund their pensions fund, but neither should we give them tax free status on land purchases, sales tax, traffic ticket exemptions and so forth. If they want to be independent, make them independent.
You get bills and checks in the *postal mail*??!! man, you're doing it wrongly. I'm all online and EFT with that stuff.
Sorry, but I don't find it "convenient" enough to pay their "convenience fees" which are more expensive than 4 stamps and when in fact all the convenience is on their side since they don't have to pay someone to open and handle the mail.
That is anecdotal (and from some posts below, also still nowhere near a bargain). From my location, I looked at rail as a possibility to go to Disney World with my family. It ended up being much more expensive than air, and was going to take 100 times as long. FWIW, driving ended up being the cheapest option, even though it took four times as long as flying would have.
Except going to the post office to pick it up is already more than the cost of one first class stamp if you live further than half a mile from the PO. And your box might be empty. I for one DO have a PO Box for our business, and I always thought it would be a good idea for the USPS to offer the service of some sort of notification that an item or items are IN your PO box. In fact, for what I pay for a PO box, I would expect something like that to be included. In fact, the information is all already there in the system for them to do things like tell you the number of items that were put there on a given day AND at least the zip+4 where they originated and possibly more information.
Anybody with a smartphone believes that. Webpages are chock full of cruft these days. Mostly advertisements, with all kinds of flash and images. And of course they are loaded first. Sometimes the advertisements take so long to load that they are refreshing before you have even got to the content of the page. I wonder if browsers will still allow you to turn off images like they used to do back in the dialup days.
The USPS plan to fund their crazy generous pension plan is to increase the volume of junk mail.
Being that we are entering into winter and the cost of natural gas and firewood is increasing, their ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletter.
It's trivially easy to find someone on facebook or similar and email them. Unless of course, they are not ON facebook or similar. granted, I guess you have a similar problem if the person you want to invite is homeless.
I was thinking more about FedEx and UPS not delivering to the destination, as they're not required to (and do not) deliver everywhere like the USPS.
Fedex does deliver to all addresses. Don't know about UPS. USPS does not.
Isn't not charging them money that they would normally have to pay pretty much the same thing as giving them money? From the economics side of thing, it works out the same way.
There's nothing wrong with Social Security. At all.
What does this mean? They are still deducting SS from MY paycheck.