Dear Jac – Page 69
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Dear Jac: In competition with its own network?
I've had an email, from a sub-postmistress of long standing, accusing the Post Office/Royal Mail of being the main competition out there. She writes: "An office can expand its work via many of the Post Office-driven items. However, each and every...
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Dear Jac: Are you on their list?
Dear old Britain is getting on, and so are many of its buildings. And English Heritage likes to do that preserving thing by listing buildings. But if you haven't worked out whether your bricks and mortar are worth preserving, it could cost you.
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Dear Jac: What really is the ‘worst after’ date?
Rajan Jhanjee rang from his Paradise Stores CTN in Brentwood, Essex, with that hairy old question about 'best before' dates. We know that retailers can sell items past that date, but what constitutes a reasonable amount of time; ie what is the...
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Dear Jac: When paying online isn’t an option
Are you doing your VAT online? Alvin Wilkinson isn't. A bit of a reactionary is Alvin. No computer, no epos, no mobile phone. But his store, Countdown in Hornsea, Yorkshire, does very nicely thank you and he pays his considerable VAT on time. Or...
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Dear Jac: An update on Chip & PIN charges
On the subject of PayPoint, I have been asked to point out that there is a crucial piece of information missing from the story in the last issue about George Mahay and his out-of-date flyer (Get it in writing but it may not help, C-Store, September...
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Who has the winning ticket?
The date on this issue's front cover is a fingers-crossed day for Camelot. The National Lottery Commission's closing date for interested parties to make their final representations about its provisional decision to withhold consent for Camelot...
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High (cost of) finance
There's no such thing as a free lunch, or free banking, apparently. A year ago Karim Mawji, who runs Young's Newsagents in Pinner in Middlesex, recommended Nationwide Building Society's Business Investor account which, although restrictive, did...
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Dear Jac: What to do when a tricky landlord holds out on the lease
Howard Coffey, asks how do you get the council to sell you the freehold after it says it won't dispose of commercial leases but is busily transferring them to other companies?
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Dear Jac: A tender message which is pretty tough
Zac Hussain got signed up to Utilities Savings Corporation (an energy broker) on the NFRN's say-so.
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Dear Jac: Subpostmasters are ‘working in a climate of fear’
Like many of you who are subpostmasters, I also believe the Horizon system is faulty owing to the sheer weight of evidence.
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Dear Jac: A few tips to keep you on the straight and narrow
Hitendra Patel, who trades in Harold Hill in Essex, has passed on numerous nods, tips and winks on the several occasions he has rung me
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Dear Jac: Cheers to enterprise
Not long ago I saved a couple £1,000. Before you all ring up, let me stress that this isn't something I can do often.
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Dear Jac: Are you planning to diversify?
Like many of you, Asif Malik, who runs a Nisa Supermarket in Cardiff, is exploring diversification.
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Dear Jac: Is this leasing or fleecing?
Asokar Ramalingham took out a loan to refurbish his Best One store at Gravesend, Kent, but now he's been sent a further bill for £1,207.50
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Dear Jac: Just who can you bank on?
Resham Singh Sunnar (Sunnar News, Slough, Berkshire) was prompted to ring about Naresh Sandhir's and Nimish Patel's two-year battle with Halifax/Bank of Scotland to recover missing thousands
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Dear Jac: Goods outside the store been stolen
I got a couple of responses to my report (C-Store, June 25) on Arul Masilamany whose remote refrigeration motors were stolen just as his new store was due to open in Chigwell in Essex.
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Dear jac: A power salute to the subpostmasters
I'm indebted to a couple of retailers for sending me recent update emails and cuttings on the subject of the Post Office's accountancy system Horizon.
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Dear Jac: Putting a spanner into Tesco’s works
Ian Layton, who runs Maple Street Stores in Bracebridge, Lincoln, has put together a letter intended primarily as information for local councillors in the hope that they'll want to put a spanner in Tesco's works
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Dear Jac: We’ve got news for you…or not
Time for a regular, and thoroughly justified, whinge about news wholesalers - both of them.