Save room in there for me too please - who wants to be read by a sanctimonious muppet like you anyway?
Save room in there for me too please - who wants to be read by a sanctimonious muppet like you anyway?
Ah that's true.
Doesn't seem very expensive compared to some customer services... some are maddening rates.
True...the most annoying thing for me is that 0845 isn't in the inclusive minutes on my mobile! In one case (the bank) I call the 0870 number they give instead, because that *is* in the inclusive minutes on my legacy tariff.
But you might be surprised at the fuss *some* people make over 0845,
0870 and so on, because there have been significant discounts applied to the geographic numbers...
When it costs more to call 0845, supposedly a 'cheap' number, than the US on a standard tariff, then it seems reasonable to make such a fuss.
clive
How strange... With mine its the other way around LoL.
Perhaps companies should just go back to their geographic numbers like in the good old days. Ah I forgot it'll be a +/00 91 prefix for many a customer service call and that might not help the phone bill ;-)
True, perhaps if we went back to the good old days of companies with geographic numbers. But then again it wouldn't be very friendly for phone bills as many a customer service centre will need a +/00 91 prefix ;-)
Have you tried:
Iz Veer Naice (as people who have just gone to see the Borat film would say)
AE
Actually I think it would work well. Customers would be much more incented to choose companies with call centres closer to home (e.g.
+299, +298 etc. ). Definitely the way forward....
That's a useful website thanks AE from PE that used to have a cam.ac.uk address ;-)
Make sure you send it special delivery and get a signature, or they'll claim they never received it. Better still deliver it by hand.
Ivor
That really wouldn't look good for the Post Office ;-)
Special delivery is useful for getting attention, but relatively expensive. Recorded delivery is considerably cheaper, just not guaranteed next day, and you still get a signature.
I don't think you even need to pay for recorded - you can get free proof of postage at a Post Office, and ISTR that, legally, proof of postage constitutes proof of delivery.
No it doesn't but IIRC it can constitute "service" of various notices, documents, etc. If it constituted proof of delivery then there would be no need for recorded and registered (or whatever it's now called) post to be used to "prove" delivery. It can be tantamount to proof of delivery if a contract or agreement states that proof of posting of an associated document is sufficient to satisfy a requirement to give notice.
I don't know if that's true or not...but being able to check, online, that it HAS been delivered is very useful. And you can get a copy of the actual signature - useful to brandish at the company.
In message , at 01:17:50 on Wed, 15 Nov 2006, asdf remarked:
The free "proof of posting" doesn't prove very much. Merely that you posted *something*. The Post Office had a pile of pre-stamped forms next to the till and simply gave me one. They had no idea what it was I had posted, or to whom.
The point is academic.
If the issue at hand is worth pursuing, the cost of Special Delivery of a letter is about £4 including tracking and PoD.
If the issue is not worth that investment then it is a non issue unless one is a civil servant, jobsworth or both.
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