Prompt Payment Discounts

[Tooold]

wasnt meaning they are wrong, just do they know how hard it is for everyone else and how little support they are going to get from the general public. My neighbour is a postie so I do have sympathy, but they have lost 6 letters a month from me as invoices from two suppliers payments to both are now done electronically. I am also payimg cheques in through the atm not at the post office so another two letters a week lost. There must be a better way than striking.

 

[Zeespark]

Oh I agree with you old about a better way of striking, its called work to rule. If you do that in RM then letters etc are still being processed but the backlog turns empty warehouses into full ones, a real headache for RM management and both the posties and the public are happy as the service is still contuing albeit at the minimum standards RM have pledged. Doing it this way will open up the public to what RM are doing.

AndyGuiness Drink

 

[exbdc]

I remember the postal strike in the 80's. It did wonders for the sale of fax machines, which was new technology at the time. Maybe this one will bring people out of the dark ages & get them to use the internet & BACS etc. a lot more. Just maybe we can get rid of the silly little bits of paper known as cheques.

 

[Tooold]

I do feel selfish not using the post service but I have to pay the bills. I still tax my van at the po, one of the reasons I'm with A&L is its through the po, I like keeping it local etc and would carry on but the "cheques in the post" routine costs.

 

[exbdc]

Can't stand the queues in the PO. Only time I go is if i've got a parcel. The old dears paying all their bills over the counter & withdrawing their money just does my head in & takes forever. Have these people never heard of standing orders, direct debits & bank accounts?

 

[Zeespark]

Yes they have exbdc, but that little ist of things is as foreign to them as texting, iplayer, ipod is to Me

AndyGuiness Drink

 

[M107]

Does anyone offer prompt payment discounts?How much and for how long?

Do they work?

(Please don't start a poll! )

Done this for years now.

When you quote add an extra **% to the cost (dont lable it as anything just put it in with general costings).

Then when you send invoice put a foot note stating that if funds are paid before ** date a **% can be deducted from the overall invoice cost (dont say a refund)

This way all the customer is getting back is a **% that they were quoted.

 

[exbdc]

Yes they have exbdc, but that little ist of things is as foreign to them as texting, iplayer, ipod is to Me AndyGuiness Drink

But at least your halfway there. You can use a computer & surf the internet.

 

[PC Electrics]

Prompt payment discounts? Nope.

going on strike = shooting ones own foot!

History will repeat itself (motor industry, miners.....)

 

[Riggy]

History will repeat itself (motor industry, miners.....)

Tolpuddle Martyrs?

 

[Apache]

late payments of debt act or something similarsee here for more info

Andy - that only applies business to business debt, not direct to your customers

Can I charge individuals statutory late payment interest?No, the legislation only applies to business to business transactions.

 

[Andy™]

i thought we were on about commercial stuff rather than domestic in this thread?