On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:32:43 GMT, ObiWan Kenobi
wrote:

yet deny
giving it TO THE PERSON PAYING FOR THEIR PROFITS AND SALARIES.

The person paying for the profit and salaries is an overrated
position. Anyone who can do a better job cheaper will quickly take
the vendor's place. Paying a mark-up, like everyone else in a free
market society, doesn't make you anything special. Profit's and
salaries are a necessary evil for the survival of the demon vendor.
There's no doubt, if you could buy the product for $.05 less somewhere
else, you would. So stop whining about profits and salaries, unless
you're some damned communist.

Moronic policies like this are usually only small public symptoms of
serious internal problems at a company.

Usually there's a reason for such policies, but one sided input from
someone who doesn't like the policy rarely pinpoints the reason for
said policy. Having such a "don't give out a tracking number" policy
is certainly no proof of a "serious internal problem" as you suggest.
Actually, you making such a claim casts more doubt on your own
rationality than Boater's World's good business sense.

I'd guess the problem resulted from a customer, such as yourself,
who'e used tracking numbers to drive both Boater's World and their
shippers nutty with minute by minute bitching and whining about why
their package isn't at some depot when they, in their infinite wisdom,
think is should be.

Their policy prohibits supplying tracking numbers. Period. End of story.

More than likely, not the end of story, just the end of your input.
Yeah, the customer is still always right, but some of them are a
monumental pita.

JMO, bb