Category: Business
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How many 1st class stamps to use on heavy letters?
In our office, we buy Royal Mail stamps in ready to use denominations of “1st Class”, “2nd Class”, “Large 1st Class” and “Large 2nd Class”. However, these are only useful for 100g weight letters. For heavy letters, we can use multiples of these stamps. I noticed I was routinely having to do the calculation in…
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Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates
Following on from an old blog post about Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know a reader posted this question in the comments If you’re not sure how to calculate margins, read that first. Hi, how do you do multiple rebates % to give a true value of what the total discount…
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Spam from Scottish Power, their response: we’ll carry on spamming (just not to you).
Spam annoys me. More specifically, the effect of spam annoys me. It annoys me that from time to time I find emails I really need have been filtered to a spam folder. It annoys me that from time to time customers don’t receive emails from us because our email is filtered to their spam folder.…