Some companies that provide Courier Service have less than desirable or questionable practices. Your Courier is the front line between your business and your customers. Understanding some of the fundamentals in making decisions for which Courier Company you use will be one of the most important things your company needs to be aware of. Your best arsenal to prevent a poor company image with delivery of your products is to be informed of many of the less than desirable practices for Courier Service some of the companies perpetrate and to learn what the industry's best practices are.

Manual date stamps are adequate for marking date in years and months. However using manual date stamps for marking date in months, days, hours, and minutes is problematic. Further, manual date stamps require rotation of bands and pre-checking of the positioned date on a waste paper. This is necessary because embossed numbers do not resemble normal numbers. Electronic date stamps are designed to overcome such drawbacks.

The Federal Trade Commission recently put forth a report to the franchse industry for comments to use in an upcoming rule-making event, which is sure to modify the current franchise rule. Many have been critical of additional rules in the industry, but none more critical than myself.

Finally, we are beginning to see real serious consequences for some of the players in the frauds that have been so prominent in the recent news. A third Enron executive is now sitting in a jail cell, and one WorldCom top dog has been arrested.

Should every business have a mission statement no matter what size they are? Absolutely. Absence of a mission statement can cause you to waste a lot of time on the wrong tasks.