I sent a COD carton via the USPS. I sent it almost a month ago and I know it be picked up/paid for but I...?
I haven't received the COD check back. I can't find the getting and I can't get a hold of the customer to see if they could distribute the receipt, tracking or doesn`t matter what, number to me for me to look it up.Am I SOL? Or is there a opening that I could still get my money. It be a little over $200 so not a small amount.
Answers: Here is the procedure for COD's. Any mailer may use collect on assignment (COD) service to mail an article for which the mailer have not been remunerated and have its price and the cost of the postage collected from the receiver. The recipient have the option to payment the COD charges using either change or personal check. Only one form of payment may be used for a single mailpiece. If the receiver pays the amount due by check payable to the mailer, the USPS forwards the check to the mailer. If the recipient pays the amount due surrounded by cash, the USPS collects the money instruct fee(s) from the recipient and sends a postal money order(s) to the mailer. The amount collected from the receiver may not exceed $1,000.00. COD service provides the mailer with a mail receipt. USPS maintain a record of conferral (which includes the recipient's signature) for a specified period of time. Customers may get hold of a delivery text by purchasing return receipt service. If you enjoy not recieved your money contact the USPS at 1-800 -275-8777, ask to speak to the Consumer Affairs office that serves your city. The hand at the 1-800 number will be able to connect you.
If you are not competent to reach the customer after a month I would voice you are SOL. I'm not sure how you even know it was picked up if you can't find the tracking number, getting, and can't get a hold of the customer to verify it??
Write it past its sell-by date as a loss and remember never to send stuff by mail unless they are compensated in full first.
There's a word for supplies that are routinely used up and reordered. I've used it, but immediately I can suggest of it!
I mean I CAN'T meditate of it.Answers: Inventory?
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Who invented hollister company ? What year was it?
Answers: William Welles Holllister was born to John Hollister and Philena Hubbard in Ohio on Jan. 12, 1818. He was one of at least six children, and was a somewhat sickly child. When he was 15, he attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, although his health prevented him from going full-time. After his father died, Hollister left college and became a farmer until 852, when he sold his farm and purchased approximately 300 head of cattle which he promptly took to California.
The next year, Hollister persuaded his sister, Lucy A. Brown, who had become wealthy thanks to the death of her husband, to help him purchase another 200 head of cattle and nearly 10,000 sheep for a second trip to California.
"She had all the money," said Earlene McCabe, a docent with the San Benito County Historical Museum. "He came across the country with his sister and brother and along the way, met up with the Flint-Bixby party, which was also driving sheep."
Both parties took a southern route from Salt Lake City in order to avoid the winter snows of the Sierra Nevada. They pastured their flocks for a year in southern California, near what is now Santa Barbara.
"Hollister saw that land and just fell in love with it," McCabe said. "But it wasn't for sale."
Instead Hollister, who by now had dubbed himself Colonel, headed north.
"He bestowed the title on himself," McCabe explained, "which was not an uncommon practice at that time."
Hollister's party ended up here in San Benito County, and discovered that Don Francisco Perez Pacheco was selling what was known as the Rancho San Justo land grant for $25,000. Hollister wrote to Dr. Thomas Flint, head of the Flint-Bixby party, telling him of a sale of "beautiful land that was great for sheep," McCabe said. Flint-Bixby and Company bought the land in October, 1855 with the understanding that Hollister would buy a one-half interest in the property in 1857.
Hollister, California
Rancho San Justo was held jointly by Flint and Hollister until 1861, when the pair disagreed over a business matter and dissolved their partnership. Flint took all of the land east of the San Benito River while Hollister took the land west of the river, including what is now known as the San Juan Valley. In 1862, Hollister married Ann James, daughter of vigilante leader Samuel James. The couple built a home at the base of a small hill known today as Park Hill. Flint's home in San Juan Bautista today is the St. Francis Retreat.
"Hollister's home was built right where the old Fremont School stands today," McCabe said. "It's my understanding that Ann's Alley, on the south side of Fourth Street, behind the county offices and crossing Briggs Alley, is named after Hollister's wife."
Shortly after his marriage, Hollister decided he had been slighted in the dissolution of his partnership with Flint, and asked for a $10,000 damage settlement. Instead, Flint offered to trade land holdings if Hollister paid him $10,000. Hollister agreed, and the two men swapped land.
In 1868, Hollister decided it was time to head south to Santa Barbara. He sold his holdings in Rancho San Justo - a total of 20,773 acres - to the San Justo Homestead Association for $370,000.
"He owned so much land that when he was ready to leave, no one else could afford to buy it all on their own," McCabe said. "So the association bought it and sold homestead lots."
Approximately 12,000 acres was divided into 50 homestead lots of about 172 acres each; about 100 acres were reserved for the town itself and were bounded by North, East, West and South streets. About 8,500 acres were reserved for future sale and the remaining property was parceled out and sold as farm units.
When it came time to name their new town, the founding fathers were anxious to get away from the Spanish names given to most of the towns cropping up in the area, such as San Juan Bautista and Tres Pinos, McCabe said. Instead, they chose the name Hollister, after the man who had sold them the property.
Hollister took the profits from the sale, and earnings from his sheep business, and along with Annie and his herd, began the trek to the area he loved.
Hollister Ranch
Today, Hollister Ranch is a private land holding of about 14,000 acres along the coastline of Santa Barbara County. It is divided into 100-acre parcels where multi-million dollar homes reside, although much of the land remains undeveloped. In many spots, the land looks the same as it did thousands of years ago, when the Chumash Indians built at least two settlements there.
Colonel Hollister, in partnership with Thomas and Albert Dibblee, purchased about 26,500 acres shortly after his arrival in the Santa Barbara area. The partnership was dissolved in 1881, with Hollister taking the coastal ranches, including what is known today as Hollister Ranch.
"What makes a fellow look at a piece of property and say 'This is it. This is where I want to be?'" McCabe said. "We don't know why Colonel Hollister chose this particular piece. It was just a nice piece of property - green, shaded, removed from town."
Hollister and Annie built a home on the property and raised their family of six children there. Hollister's sister Lucy had moved to Santa Barbara with them, and lived with the Colonel and Annie in their home. It was not a pleasant experience, McCabe said.
"Lucy felt that her brother had married beneath him," she said. "Eventually, it got to the point where Annie told her husband he had to choose between her and his sister. He handled it very tactfully, I think. He built Lucy her own home on the property."
During the 1870s, Hollister, who was now well off financially, made many contributions to the Santa Barbara area. He helped develop many different institutions, including Santa Barbara College, the Arlington Hotel, a local newspaper and the Lobero Theater.
"He pretty much built the town of Santa Barbara by himself," McCabe said. "I like to liken him to the big money people who helped develop San Francisco."
In spite of his successes, McCabe said personal tragedy seemed to follow Hollister and his family. Two of William and Annie's children died - a daughter in infancy after a fall from a stroller, and an adult son died from influenza. Another son became an alcoholic and was "paid by the family to stay away," McCabe said. Another daughter married a man who her father felt was beneath her station, and she was no longer accepted by her family.
Hollister died in 1886, and his now expansive holdings were left to his wife, Annie, all of his children except the two he had disowned, and an illegitimate child he had sired years previously. His sister Lucy was left nothing, not even the house in which she was living.
"She couldn't believe it when the will was read," McCabe said. "She was the one who got him started; it was her money that made everything possible. She said 'no, no, this is not right. He can't give everything away.' But she got nothing."
The Hollisters of today
A resolution by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to have the land developed into a national seashore was denied by the Department of Interior in 1969. Title passed to the Mortgage Guarantee Company in 1970, which came up with the idea to divide the ranch into 135 parcels of about 100 acres each, saving about nine miles of coastline for common ownership. The parcels were designated for agricultural use or personal residence only, and today, the Hollister Ranch Owners' Association manages the multi-million dollar homes overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
In the 1950s, the Hollisters allowed the region's Sportsman Hunting Club to have access to its land. The club was later divided into smaller clubs, including a surf club headed by a local surfer named Reynolds Yater. Yater and his friends found the surfing at Hollister Ranch to be ideal, and since then, because the coastline is privately owned, many a surfer has tried to sneak his way in. Its limited access has added to Hollister Ranch's legendary status, and has helped the area become a major part of Hollister Clothing Co.'s allure.
The city of Hollister was incorporated in 1872 and became the San Benito County seat two years later. In 1880, its population was 1,000 residents; today, almost 48,000 people call Hollister home.
In spite of its growth, however, Hollister remains a mostly rural community, with agriculture and ranching two of its biggest industries.
Aside from the sharing of the name, McCabe said there is no real similarity between the Hollister of San Benito County and Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County.
"He was a much bigger name down there than he was up here," she said. "Really, we just took his name is all. He didn't leave much of an impression here."
For those interested in learning more about William Welles Hollister or the history of the city of Hollister or Hollister Ranch, the following sources were used while researching this story: the San Benito County Historical Society (www.sbchistoricalsociety.org); Surfline (www.surfline.com/surfaz); Land Use History (www.hollisterranch.org) and Hollister Clothing Co. (www.hollisterco.com).
Playing the name game
Opening a Hollister Clothing Co. store not likely here right now, but local merchants can still benefit from the name recognition.
If you can't beat them, try joining them.
Although a decision is far from being reached regarding the Hollister Clothing Co.'s claim to the name Hollister for its merchandise, here in San Benito County, some city officials and business owners seem perf
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