[TenTec] Shipping Items to Ten-Tec

[Bill Steffey]

hope that TenTec passes along to us, whom are charged shipping, the actual 
cost of the 'shipping'. INCLUDING DISCOUNTS/REBATES.

MANY COMPANIES MAKE HUGE PROFITS ON THE DISCOUNTS/REBATES PAID BACK TO THEM 
FROM THE SHIPPERS FOR "VOLUME"...

Some 'smart' shipping guys figured how to show their clients that they 
could make money on shipping stuff!!!.    The shipper charges the end user 
'actual shipping charges'...let's say 20$... then the SHIPPER gets a 
'rebate' or 'discount' due something they'll call volume or something else 
( which of course is not attributable to that particular shipment or 
customer. - hence not due to the customer.  And even the good shippers do 
it , because their competition does it.
That always seemed to make things ok in the USA.
All those good mailorder and internet prices are supported by this hidden 
profit center.   I'll bet FedX has a great rebate program.

bill

At 05:07 AM 7/19/02, W5VPU@aol.com wrote:
>Hi, Ron.
>        Nope, you are not missing anything. Yup. They can receive from other
>shippers, I discovered after a call to Scott.
>        However, I had presumed (my error) their note meant I should use 
> FedEx
>as their "preferred shipper." That gives a total of three additional days in
>transit on a turnaround shipment to Sevierville and back to OKC. If one
>counts as speedy delivery, it won't happen.
>        I think I am missing something from Ten-Tec as to why they made the
>switch of contract. Something about Saturday delivery, I believe Stan said.
>It may just as well wash out as an even swap. I'm willing to wait and see. A
>lot of things are both "a blessing and a curse."
>        Let it be carefully noted by all that I trust Ten-Tec as a company to
>make decisions in both their best interest and also in mine as well. They are
>a company of people who still remember and practice customer service as first
>and foremost. Whichever shipper one chooses, there is always room for "bad
>things to happen to good people." I probably should have left my first note
>unwritten for this reflector. But you guys are good guys, too. You keep me up
>on these old toes.
>
>73  Raymond   w5vpu
>
>
>
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