The Archibald Library is one of my favorite places to visit. For me, the library is within walking distance, and is a good reason to get outside for a healthy walk.
The Archibald library originated, in 1994. Originally, a county library, the city took control of …

Media Mail is a great service from USPS (United States Postal Service) and one I have used many times. Over the years I must have mailed out over a hundred media mail items, some in boxes and some in bubble envelopes. It’s a very affordable way to mail books, …

With the opening of the school year in the last 2 weeks, it was a frenzy of endless shopping for books, stationery, clothes and shoes for my kids. Most of the time, I did not know where to go as I do not know Brussels that well despite …

My husband’s job had us moving a lot. One of the times we moved Allied moved us. Without writing nasty, I can only say it was bad!
The guy that showed up to give us the quote was a pill. He smelled like liquor and …

I recently moved and I used Budget Truck Rental. I was able to make my reservation online and use an online coupon to receive 10% off. The web site is very user friendly and you can reserve or just get a rate quote. They have locations …

In those days where you can only see water flowing at the glass panels at the hotels and department stores, Danny had it. It made his salon look expensive and intimidating. At other shops where the staff wore nice uniforms, better be prepared for the unusually high …

Each month every homeowner everywhere dreads the utility bills. I am no different. With electricity rates skyrocketing and already high cable rates rising, it seems that telephone service should be the least of my worries. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The cost of basic …

Mediacom cable is my cable provider who I had for 2 years now. I like the service in the beginning because of the promotional rates and the installation was quick and fast. After a while my cable would just go out for no apparent reason, right in the middle …

My friend took me and my 9 month old baby to The Picture People at the Deptford Mall in Deptford NJ. I heard good things about them so I was excited. This was our first time taking my daughter to get professional pictures. We went to …

When I moved out on my own from my parent’s house, I wanted a telephone company that was inexpensive but that provided unlimited service to anywhere in the country. That seemed too good to be true, but then I heard about Vonage. The commercials all said that Vonage would …

I’m a part time writer for a publication in Manila. After my manuscripts are approved they send the deed of sale contract for me to sign through express delivery mail. After signing and sending it back to them, they provide my check and send it to my adress in …

I used Access USA as a mail forwarding service when I could not have my products delivered to my home address. I like this service a lot because it does what it promises to do. First of all, a mail forwarding service brings your delivered goods to your temporary …

I recently visited Dukas Auto Repair due to a radio promotion on 1220 AM in Waukegan. I was the lucky caller who got a certificate for a free Oil Change.
I needed my oil changed and Dukas was close to where I …

I recently celebrated my 35th birthday. And, as part of that, I realized my driver’s license was set to expire and I had to go to our local Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles to renew it.
I received the renewal notice in late August. But, even though they gave me …

Greyhound bus services are present all over the US and they are one of the main sources of bus transportation for people looking to travel from one major part of the country to another.
My experience with it was travelling from Anderson,South Carolina to Silver Spring, Maryland.The ticket for the …

Buying Distilled or purified water in the country has been predominant ever since it got well known in some establishments. Most private houses now buy 5 gallon containers and drinks purified water because tap water has really not been clean even after you boil the water. Most of the …

Hello prepaid phone card from singtel is not really a good phone card.I used this prepaid phone card to call to India from Singapore.There is real difficulty to get calls connected.Previously talk time was less for a 10$ card.Now they increased the time,but talk time gets slashed very …

For all my landscaping needs I go to Yardworks and I have had a great experience with this company. The staff at Yardworks is very friendly and they truly seem like they enjoy helping the customer. Whenever I need anything dealing with landscaping I love being able …

We feel sometimes skeptik about public E-mail providers, like Yahoo, Altavista, Hotmail, and so on. The central question is about security, and one more question is about their funcionalities. Until last week, I thought that it was not possible to receive calls for meeting at Hotmail.com, but surprisingly, I …

Have you heard about Pingo. They are the latest arrival in the international calling card business and with a bang. They provide prepaid calling card service that can really save you big money on long distance calls. They provide calling cards that are designed to provide you with the …

My hats off to the very helpful people at the Rustan’s Bridal Registry Service.
They helped make this part of my wedding planning problem-free. Here’s what I love about them:
1. The department store set up a very classy room for the service. This room …

The Landmark Department Store in Makati City was one of my top choices for my wedding’s bridal registry. What attracted me to this department store was the fairly wide range of tableware and kitchen items available at reasonable prices. The store is also connected to a major appliance shop. …

In the past few months in the course of my travels I have passed through the Greyhound bus station in Tallahassee, Florida on a number of occasions. As with all things in life it has it’s good points and it’s bad points.
One of the good things about the …

If you ask about the cheapest way to ship a gift for someone that live in other countries, most people in Indonesia will tell you to use EMS Post service.
This is the special service from their post company. Pos Indonesia is the one that offer you this EMS service. …

My husband and I bought our first home about a year and a half ago. We decided to use Verizon Fios as our internet and cable provider because they were cheaper than Comcast. Not many of our friends or family lived in areas where Verizon Fios was an option …

I used the service from Speedy Turtles few years ago. Speedy Turtles was one of courier service company that can ship your goods door to door to another countries in the world.
When I was moving from Jakarta to Europe, I had some goods that I need to ship. …

When I had a flood a while back ago I needed the place clean and cleaned up in a rush so I contacted Service master cleaner and I must say that this place left me pretty darn impressed with their services. The first thing I would like to say …

As a current subscriber to Vonage I am satisfied with there service. Almost all problems I personally experience are those out of the companies control for the most part, and simply subject to that type of service (VoIP).
Vonage pricing is a often big relief compared to normal landlines services. …

After living in Bellingham for thirty years, I finally found a real barber shop. I’m talking about a small shop with a real revolving barber poll, stacks of magazines, and men who come in to get a haircut.
I’ve been there twice now and have no intentions of going anywhere …

Water concessionaire for eastern zone of Metro-Manila and nearby towns. It prides itself as the best water supplier Manila has ever experience.
All is not well though for Manila Water Co. Inc. (MWCI) as I experience a sad incident involving their subcontractor for the town of Cainta.
It happened …

Do you need quick and fast courier service in Indonesia? Why don’t you try Tiki Courier service? As far as I know, they have great service when it come to deliver your goods or stuffs from one city to another city in Indonesia. Not only between the cities, they …

I have used Roto-Rooter Plumbing and Drain Services on several occasions and I have had a really great experience with this company. This is a locally owned company and the owners are very friendly and they have been serving customers for a long time. They are very …

Sun Cellular phone really pisses me off right now! They have been bugging me to the depths of my mind because every since my phone application was approved with them, I haven’t used my phone yet! And that is already 3 days, and counting. I just came from their …

A few years ago, Wisconsin followed a trend started by several other states and implemented a Do-Not-Call list to cut back on the number of calls by telemarketers.
In my opinion, it was a complete failure.
Not only do I still receive telemarketing calls, I receive just as many as …

Comcast Cable is awesome! I loved having their service. They offered some great packages such as the triple play package which is what I ordered at the time. For around $100 a month I had internet, phone, and cable. The triple play package was great but the price should …

This is how much I dislike AT&T: I now have only cell phone service in my home, so that I may avoid land line usage and thereby AT&T (same for QWEST, but I’ll get to that in another review). The land-line long distance service was more trouble …

In my desire to minimize our telephone expenses at home I subscribed initially to PLDT Teletipid. Eventually PLDT abolished Teletipid and replaced it with PLDT Telesulit so I had no choice but go with the changes. Then again another change occurred, PLTD junked the PLDT Telesulit again and implemented …

I have only used grey hound for one trip and I found the customer service to be severly lacking. Although they are a cheaper mode of transportation they do not have the level customer service you would see with an airline or other mode of transportation. Leaving my Colorado …

I have been a customer of this phone company for many years. I have not always had good service from them. They were very slow in getting internet service for their customers. We have had internet service for only about 4 years. Their service men are not the brightest. …

I recently traveled on Mega Bus from Washington, D.C. to New York City. I was intrigued by this company after hearing from friends that you could book one way tickets from as cheap as one dollar, but I was a bit skeptical at first. I wondered if the service …

First time I went to this library,I was not a member yet.So we just read the book there but we could not bring some books to our place. But then my daughter registered as a member there few weeks later. She got a pass card that she can use …

Fedex is a shipping company and I have had a really good experience with Fedex. I have found that Fedex has some of the lowest rates compared to some of the other major shipping companies and that’s why I use Fedex for most of my shipments. Whenever …

I took the Greyhound bus, and it was absolutely horrible! The bus had to make many stops, and the wait in between each stop was long. There were in the worst part of town where a few strangers came up to me and were talking jibberish. …

I joined Cavalier Telephone service instead of Verizon. I dropped Verizon way to expensive I was paying 80.00 per month for toll free calling and long distance calls and no internet service. I also paying for amother internet provider for $13.00 per month so total for this per month …

This shuttle has its presence in most of the airports of US.We booked for this service to drop and pickup for LAX airport.Though we had our flight by 1.00 AM yet we booked the timing for 8.00PM for pickup as we are 45 miles away from …

I started using ACP Laundry’s services 3 months ago. I decided to try them out because they were very near our place and they offer free delivery and pick-up. My laundry was piling up since my house help eloped.
Our first encounter was okay. They got the …

I never had to use a daycare before last year. I used to be a stay at home mom who could spend her time taking care of the kids. After the divorce I had to radically change the way I lived in the world. Between taking care of my …

There are plenty of private companies which will collect and deliver packets, packages and other items of mail. The British national postal service, known as Royal Mail,is still the biggest handler of letters, cards and small packets within the U.K. I am not the only one to notice how …

I have been a Triple A member for the last 4 years. During this time I have never had the need to actually visit a Triple A office. I have always taken care of the yearly membership dues through the mail or internet. I have used my membership for …