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 …

I cannot remember the last time that I had a satisfactory experience with any of the Philippine national government offices since I was born. This is in stark contrast to my experience with my local government of Marikina City, where the government has made bureaucracy a little bit bearable. …

Of all the Home Affairs Departmental offices I have been to, Centurion appears to be the most organized and least busy one of them all.
I arrived outside the offices at around twelve in the morning, with nothing but the worst expectations of the experience I was about to have. …

The “Bay Bridge EZ-Pass” is anything but EZ for some of us.
I made the mother of mistakes, when I chose the convenience of purchasing my pass from my local Giant. My downhill spiral began when I asked the Customer Service Rep?!? some general questions about the pass. She told …

My landline service at home is provided by the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation. The office of my husband usually keeps all the telephone lines in the houses of their staff to avoid the connection and disconnection issues which will arise when a house is vacated by staff members who are …

This is the national train service from The Dutch government. I think there is only one train public transportation in this country. And this is NS services.
When I need to go somewhere without my own car, I normally check first if it’s possible to use train to go to …

From the moment you walk into them, some libraries smell like libraries. That was my first impression of the Citizen’s Library in Washington, PA. Though only in it’s current building about 50 years, the library was established in the 1870s by a leading citizen of the …

I used Fedex shipping services for the first time about a week ago to ship a package of food from New York to Texas for my girlfriend and I must say this is the best shipping experience I have ever had with any company. I was able to pay …

I recently started to ride the city bus to and from school, due to the fact that gas prices have skyrocketed out of this world. My two year old son and I went and got on the city bus and paid out little two dollar fee and sat down …

My phone would constantly ring all day long. I would run to the phone and get very upset to hear a telemarketer on the other end! I would constantly ask to be removed from their marketing list and stress the fact that I was not interested in …

Victory Liner Bus Corporation is one of the largest and oldest Bus Company in the Philippines. It has routes going to all the major cities in the island of Luzon and to some cities in the island of Visayas. I had the chance to ride one of their bus …

I-800-U-Haul says it all.U Haul is a nationwide truck moving company from which you can rent trucks and other equipments in case you are relocating. I rented their truck just once I believe and that was when I was moving from the Hyattsville area to Laurel in the …

U-haul moving foam has always been my favorite way to insure my valuable goods are kept in good condition when in the process of moving. Many times when moving things like china, glasses, silverware, ect… they will get damaged in the process of moving. …

This particular pawnshop chain is owned and operated by a family that has been in the pawnshop business for generations. There is not a city or remote Barrio that has no proximate access to an M. LHULLIER Pawnshop. It’s easy to see why such a business thrives in this …

Ever since becoming a Comcast customer, I have really been pleased with the service. The internet service is pretty fast, and the cable service itself is pretty reliable, much more so than other cable companies I’ve had experience with. I had never had On Demand service …

I’ve taken American Taxi on a number of occasions, mostly on trips from an airport to my apartment and back. If you visit Chicago often or live in Chicago (or nearby suburbs), I highly recommend American Taxi for your trips.
The airport fares are generally set, so they don’t …

I have had the need to go to Rent A Center in the past few years. Rent A Center has very good customer service. The people that work there are friendly, helpful and know what they are talking about. They have some nice furniture there, of course it depends …

I purchase sewing notions on a regular basis; therefore, you can imagine my surprise when I discovered this well kept secret that the Wal-Mart on Archer Road had a sewing department and all this time I had been driving thirty minutes away to purchase sewing notions.
I had never shopped …

After trying to find a phone company that would give me a great price and good customer service, I finally found one in my own backyard.
Powercom doesn’t do a lot of advertising and I wouldn’t have heard about them if a friend hadn’t told me about them. But, for …

What can I say about this place? It is where me and many of my friends received our licenses/permits. Being Montebello area, this place is one of the most crowded places in the city! No joke! You can never get in without a 30-minute wait simply because everyone in …

Our365 is a photography company that takes photos of your newborn baby while in the hospital. They also do follow up pictures of your child as they get older too. After giving birth to my daughter, the next day the photographer from Our365 had came in my room to …

My mail is processed at the Mountainview branch of the US Post Office in Tucson. I also use this post office on a regular basis to ship packages, buy postage and use my PO Box. I am fairly satisfied with the attitude of the staff and customer service I …

This year was my first year doing taxes by myself so I was understandably a bit nervous about the process. To a newcomer to the taxes ordeal, they can seem very ominous and unwieldy. After doing some research, I decided to try Turbo Tax to complete my tax returns …

My electric fence and house alarm are both connected to Securicor which is a security company. This company has the reputation of being one of the best security agencies in Botswana and is all over the world. The agency, therefore, assigns guards in my house 24/7. Compared to …

When I first moved back to Wisconsin, I felt I needed an unlimited long distance plan to help me keep in touch with relatives a long ways a way. At the time, the only packages out there, required me to take about a hundred features I would never use …

When I was on maternity leave I wasn’t getting any pay from work. I decided to check with my local County Assistance Office to see if I would temporarily qualify for any type of benefits. I called and they instructed me to fill out an application online …

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 …

Acme is a window tinting shop that’s located in Columbus, MS. I have gone to Acme several times for car tinting service but they also provide tinting service for homes and businesses. Whenever I need to have windows tinted I go to Acme Window Tinting and I …

I live in Gainesville, FL and my girlfriend lives in Orlando, FL, I don’t have a car, so when I can’t get a ride from my friends, I take Greyhound buses. I’ve been using their bus service for more than twenty times during the past two years. My overall …

my son is 2.6 year old-total naughty brat!!i tried taking many photographys of him but with little success.they were good but none that i can frame!so i decided to take him to studio k.my son never even liked to enter it but with great difficulty i took him in …

A few years ago I had a lot of used clothing, lightly used shoes and assorted items that I no longer wanted and needed to give away. The Salvation Army seemed like the perfect solution. I had seen their trucks driving around the city on several different occasions …

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 …

The Morristown Library is located in the center of the city of Morristown. It is a large library in a big gray building that looks like a church. One of the good things about the library is its size and the sheer number of books it has. It is …

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 …

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 …

After years of commuting to work by private auto, I began riding the bus to work on the first of July. I love it.
Whatcom County Transit provides bus service throughout the county and throughout Bellingham, Washington where I live. Recently they’ve increased their bus service so that along main …

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 …

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 …

Naughty by Nature or NBYN (www.naughtybynature.com.sg ) is a photo studio that offers a lifetime package of ‘lifestyle photographs’. They claim that they have more than 6,000 clients and they even include professional photographers. They also promise that they are able to photograph a range of styles. However, after …

Starkville Post Office is a post office that’s located in Starkville, MS and I have not had a very good experience at this post office. This Post Office is open M-F from 8 am until 5 pm. This is a very small post office and there is …

For quite sometimes in the past, I had been a victim of the scoundrels in the Philippine Postal Service. I don’t know if these people are still existing up to now or not, but I stopped doing transactions with them because of those terrible …

I have done my last two perms at Cost Cutters, a family hair salon located at North Ottawa Plaza in Ottawa, IL, and I am very pleased with the service and with the results. Last year, I had asked for regular perm, and this year I went for spiral. …

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 …

Arriva Bus is one of bus company in the Netherlands that offer you bus service. Arriva Bus are mostly used in the Waterland area. This is the area in North Holland. So you will not find this Arriva bus in the other area or cities outside the area I …

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 …

Palawan Pawnshop is one of the largest pawnshop and money remittance center in the Philippines. It has over 1300 branches nationwide. Palawan Pawnshop is also a partner of LBC, Tambunting Pawnshop, and SM malls in the Philippines. They offer different services such as pawning, money remittance, forex exchange,bills payment(electricity,phone,internet,load …

As mentioned in my review on AT&T, I now have only cell phone service in my home so that I may avoid QWEST and its endless little creepy fees. Do they actually think I don’t read those? Do they actually think it doesn’t matter to me that they …

When I found myself in need of a taxi from Port Jefferson, NY to Holbrook, NY, I called two taxi companies. The first company I called was Lindy’s. When I was dismayed by the outrageous price they were requesting for the short trip, I called Islandwide. The price offered …

We all know about the world being in the digital age, and how high-tech it better. Well, it is really better, or do you just go with the flow of things?
My husband and I signed up for Bright House Digital Phone Service, which basicly means that our phone uses …