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To: Pierre-X who wrote (538)	7/3/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Pierre; << How do you like it so far? >> I'll let you know. Delivery date is set for July 17. <<On the subject of phone/fax confirms, it seems e-commerce doesn't live up to the way it's been hyped in certain quarters.>> Its local custom that reigns I'm afraid. Its amazing here. There is ZERO trust for any kind of electronic exchange because the systems are so screwed up and poorly managed that people do not trust them. In addition, because they are so vulnerable there are con artists trying to take advantage of them all the time. There is no such thing as a "signature on file" transaction here. My travel agent sends a courier with my credit card slip to sign and then sends him again with the receipt and the tickets. People here will use an ATM to get cash but will not, under any circumstances, make a deposit at one. Instead they stand in interminable lines to get a receipt. Why is the one the teller hands them better then the one the machine hands them? Because the machine receipt states "subject to confirmation" on it. The post office here makes the one in the U.S. look like pure functioning brilliance. It takes a letter, mailed across town, a week to ten days to arrive if at all. Lost article rates are incredibly high. sigh Third world, chum. Best, Stitch