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Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

The Daycos January Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here.  A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:

• 2012 Tariffs to be Detailed
• Post-Audit Recovered Revenue Continues to Increase
• We Are Officially Daycos, Inc.
• NTS Implementation Delay

If you did not receive an email with this month’s newsletter, but would like to receive it directly each month, please feel free to subscribe here: Daycos Newsletter….

For the first half of our 33 year history, Daycos was exclusively a  post-audit firm, examining closed shipment files to find revenue left behind. While billing and related services now account for most of our work, we still perform the post-audit service for hundreds of SCAC codes each year. During the past year, we reviewed over tens of thousands of shipment records to find revenue that would have otherwise gone uncollected by the TSP.
In 2011, Daycos recovered an average…

At first glance, it may appear that the newly released 2012 tariffs contain only minor revisions to the 2011 versions. And while it is probably true that there are less significant changes this year in comparison to previous years, TSPs should not assume that there are not important changes that they need to be aware of in the 2012 400NG and the 2012 International Tender….
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This week, there was a widely published Associated Press story about “survey fatigue.” The article, which can be viewed on the USA Today website, highlights the frustration of consumers with the increasing number of survey requests. Here are a couple of passages from the article:

 While market-research polls have been conducted for decades, customer-satisfaction surveys have proliferated in recent years because of technology, a growing emphasis on getting data to shape decisions and measure results, and a drive to …

The price of fuel was $3.78 per gallon as reported on Monday, January 2, 2012 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 1/15/12 through 2/14/12 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 13%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.28
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.28…

Many times when we have disagreements with SDDC about the interpretation of certain issues in the tariff, we remind them that it is not what they “think” about an issue that is important, it is what is “written” in the solicitation that should be the guide. After we posted our last blog article… about the delay in posting the solicitations, I had a call from SDDC that reminded me of this lesson. This representative from SDDC called to tell me