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Here are some tariff and billing form updates/Clarifications that were reviewed and implemented in the AccuBill form.
1. INT/BAG – updated to the Iceland effective dates for 04-14-06 to 09-30-06. Previously programmed end date of 09-01-06 per MOA previously provided to us, but Supplement 5 to the I-16 states 09-30-06 as the expiration date.
2. INT – billing Clarification for Item 520 to CWA – when billing long deliveries CONUS. Program is already updated to reflect new billing requirements on…

As many of you know, our website, XRSNet has been randomly experiencing some technical difficulties over the last week. We had made some minor updates to our website that no longer allows some of our customers to retrieve PDF documents, such as invoices, registration sheets and so forth from our website. We are working towards long term resolution on this, but if you are experiencing this problem, here are a few short-term troubleshooting tips to help you get the information…

A great big Congratulations is extended to the Dittmers, as they have a new little addition to their family! Joshua Patrick Dittmer was born on Monday, July 24th here in Norfolk. He weighed 9lbs, 10oz, and is 22 inches long.
Mike is our Director of Operations here at The Day Companies. He and his wife Sarah, along with their 5-year old twins, Abbey & Aaron, anxiously welcome Joshua into their family.…

SDDC has recently released the awaited billing procedures to clarify proper interim billing of the International SIT Delivery item codes 520A and 520B since the updates made to these item codes in CWA release 3.7.3. The full billing clarification can be found at http://www.sddc.army.mil/sddc/Content/Pub/37074/520A520B.pdf.
We would like to confirm for our billing and our AccuBill customers that the billing procedure outlined in the release is how we have been calculating the charge since the update to CWA. If you have…

Thursday the 29th we suffered a power outage that caused our servers to shutdown improperly. Normally what should happen in a power outage is the battery backup would kick in and give our servers about an hour of runtime and then if the power hasn’t been restored (either via generator or the power coming back on) the battery backup will signal them to shutdown cleanly. Unfortunately none of that happened. The power went out and instead of the battery backup…

As was noted in our Second Quarter 2006 Newsletter article “The Day Companies Switching to Image Billing”, everything is now scanned into our system before the billing is created. With this new process, the billing department would like to provide a few suggestions for you, our customers, when submitting your paperwork to us for billing.
 Highlighting. We ask that you refrain from highlighting the documents that you send to us. The scanners often darken the lines that have been…

Are you currently a post audit customer, or are you considering becoming one? Do you not have the manpower or time required to box up your files for us to pick up and audit? The Day Companies would like to let you know that we are now able to audit your files using images/scanned documents. If you currently scan your paperwork, this can be submitted to us to perform the audit service. These images may be sent to us via…

We recently were made aware of the following notification sent to a TSP from a representative of the Coast Guard regarding inquiries for payment status on invoices submitted to them:

Due to a very busy season with a large amount of billing, new staff (50% turn around), new systems coming on line and mandatory training ALL requests for customer service must come through our web site.
Our web site is: http://www.fincen.uscg.mil/vendor_info.htm.
The site is available 24/7.
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As promised we have moved to the new XRSNet blog. This blog will be located at http://web2.xrsnet.com as well as the old location of http://www.xrsnet.com/weblog . One of the first things you will notice is that the blog will replace the information that was on the homepage of web2.xrsnet.com. All of that information will still be available at http://www.xrsnet.com .
I will start by giving you a quick tour of some of the features of the new blog.

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The following Domestic items/charges have been updated by our programming department:
Updated the rates for 1st day (145A) and warehouse handling (145C)for all controlling bases and counties.
CONUS SIT delivery rate increases for Schedules A through R (Appendix 4E – PDS)
Reweigh fee (125A) from 55.59 to 56.09
Appliance service charge (135A) from 17.43 to 17.59
Nontemp inspection fee (154A) from 2.78/cwt to 2.81/cwt.
Numerous bridge/ferry charges:
Bridge Charge:… Virginia Beach VA -Norfolk – Cape Charles VA (136R) – .56/cwt