Archive for the ‘Customer service’ category

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The most inappropriate hold music?

December 20, 2009

It isn’t just in Europe that snow is creating havoc with travel plans. Snowstorms on the Eastern seaboard of the United States mean that many flights have been cancelled. Delta Airlines customers, however, were particularly incensed to find that, when they rang the airline to try to find out whether they could fly or not, [...]

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Vote with your feet to end bad customer service

December 15, 2009

Hats off to Which? magazine, which is launching a new campaign to encourage customers to give the heave-ho to companies that offer bad customer service. They will run the campaign throughout 2010 and will apparently be offering help and advice to consumers who are keen to switch services, apparently suggesting they move to companies who [...]

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Not so broad band

November 30, 2009

As broadband becomes a utility almost as essential as electricity and water, we are turning into a two-tier society. Never mind the question of whether you can get the speeds of “up to” 8MB promised by the ads. If you don’t live in a built-up area, the question is more likely to be whether you [...]

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Zebu hero Paul McCrudden: Charging shops for wasting his time

November 9, 2009

Have you ever been kept waiting in a shop or restaurant, fuming at the senseless waste of your time? Stupid question. Of course you have. We all have.
Unlike the rest of us, however, digital media consultant Paul McCrudden decided to do something about it. Over six weeks, he calculated the time spent in interacting with [...]

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Sorry You Were Out

October 10, 2009

Letter in The Daily Telegraph
SIR – The card claiming that you were out when a postman tried to deliver a packet (Letters, October 9) instructs you to use the website to arrange “redelivery”, or to telephone. The website asks for the 13-digit code that the postmen are supposed to have written on the card. Surprise, [...]

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An out of house experience

October 8, 2009

THAT LETTER about “Sorry You Were Out” cards shoved through the letterbox by postmen who don’t even have the packages with them has kicked up a deservedly gritty storm.
It’s happened to us many times before, so it’s hard to believe that the Royal Mail management didn’t know about it. But then, they aren’t credited with [...]