Maybe there's not enough fiber in his diet. :p

Yes, because charging regular rates that no one would regularly pay for mail delivery is a great business model. ;)

They're just dandy for international courier service but the model for regular mail doesn't really work at that scale.

Some would say that this is the model the USPS seems to be going for.

So I sortof got offered a real job tonight. The guy - a partner I've been working with off and on for almost 2 years - asked me to name my number so they could put it in the budget for next year. I'm not so sure I want a real job. Is that wrong?

On the plus side, the job would be about 60-70% travel, albeit mostly domestic.

Our European office uses TNT, it is constant :rolleyes:

I can see how going back to the grind after freelancing can be a tough choice. Me personally, I'm hoping I nail Friday so I can start working again.

Has the upgrade list on CO.Com changed?
 

Has anyone noticed that M ups (and by inference the B and Y ups as well) are not listed as upgrades on the First Class upgrade list anymore? When did this change occur on CO.com at the upgrade site?

Just arrived back. Car told me it needed service (:rolleyes:) and I took it in for an appointment. Service advisor told me instead of losing car for tomorrow, he could get car in tonite. ^ 60 minute service for 3 letter car company is :cool:.

^ Negotiate your terms and go for it. Having a steady income without worry is a great thing.

I did the freelancing for 3.5 years, I was successful, sometimes more than now, but it was full of ups and downs as well.

Time to hit the sack, Box. Let's see if the cars move tomorrow. My hunch is no.

Night, all.

Awesome that you got the offer! My travel is 100% domestic but helps get personal travel :-:.

Look at the number -- I got my number 2 years ago, took a cut in 2009 and stepped forward this year. Big picture is huge... ^

I believe that happened when they did the last round of fare bucket changes.

Just today I had a client threaten to throw his laptop out the window because he claimed the charts in our product were "a f---ing piece of s--t". When I calmly explained to him that my company did not actually own his laptop and thus, I really couldn't give a rat's posterior if he threw it out the window, he began to come down off the ledge. Of course as it turns out, he was totally reading the chart wrong, he only had a moving average line in the chart, and was reading that as the price line.

They were still doing it at the beginning of Jan but my last flight last week on an M fare was not listed as an upgrade. Was the change in fare buckets during that time period?

Yeah, I get parts one and two from customers a lot. Not so much the last part though. :rolleyes::D