All Dear Jac articles – Page 20
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Dear Jac
Who is getting this extra fee to protect rural ATMs?
It’s all in the way you define the term ‘operators’
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Dear Jac
The collapse of this coffee firm left a lot high and dry
And they were stuck with too-long leases for the equipment.
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Dear Jac
There’s no one to notice a post-dated cheque these days
It’s all automated now and the machines can’t read
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Dear JacTop tax tip
This tip, on the Very Awful Tax that HMRC is insisting upon making digital, comes to you from the BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme via Ian Phipps, who describes himself as a newsagent from Bolton.
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Dear Jac
The error had been admitted but still no refund
Instead it was to and fro, back and forth, for months and months
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Dear Jac
How can this retailer remove a display stand he hasn’t got?
And why are they chasing him for a debt he doesn’t owe?
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Dear JacDoing the sums
When we last featured Taranjeet Singh in this column in mid-May, he was waiting for the rep’s visit from Hermes to decide whether or not to continue with the parcel service.
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Dear Jac
A couple of tips about PP terminals old and new
Don’t panic: you’ll get time to decide, and then shop around
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Dear Jac
What to do when your delivery gets mixed up?
Especially when you are trying to take a bit of a break
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Dear Jac
Is the answer to great service to outsource to India?
Retailers may take some convincing when the product is perishable
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Dear JacWhat’s in a name?
Samir Patel sent me a picture of his shopfront. It says Londis, but you can see it has been stuck over another sign which reveals just two letters, a B at the beginning and an E at the end.
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It’s not quite getting your own back, but every little helps
Are you among those giving up your original PayPoint terminal?
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Dear Jac
The minimum wage only ever moves one way
And it comes straight out of your pocket. How to counteract?
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Dear Jac
It been fairly quiet on the PPL/PRS licences front
But this retailer set alarm bells ringing with a backdated bill
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Dear Jac
Up in arms over the switch to charging for ATM money
And why was there no reminder of the rollover contract?
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Dear JacHalf-price sting
Most things in this world are negotiable (despite Brexit evidence to the contrary so far)…
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Dear Jac
Something about this accountant doesn’t add up
He not only won’t do the work but won’t give the books back to you
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Dear Jac
A cabinet reshuffle that never came to pass
It was status quo: in with the old and out with the new
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Dear Jac
Western Union: they didn’t sign up for this
A money transfer service really shouldn’t mean out of your account to some crook.
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Dear JacPlenty of company
Dilbag Sandhu rang with a complaint about his post office contract. He runs Halfway House, a Local Plus post office, in Glasgow. He says he is doing more transactions than the main PO in his area and yet is being paid less.