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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (37977)	2/3/1999 9:28:00 AM
From: marion (Hijacked)	Respond to of 164684

<<Amazon: Delivery into inventory, day 1. Sale, day 14 (average). Payment recieved, day 16. Amazon pays vendor, day 58.>> Just wanted to point something out. This is a one time benefit. I will give you a simple example: You are considering two jobs. They both pay 1,000 dollars a week. Employer 1 will pay you your weekly salary on the second Friday from your first day of employment. Employer 2 will pay you on the first week of your employment. There is a benefit to working at employer 2, but you only realize the benefit for the first week. Now you could argue that if you worked at the second employer you would be able to take that money and put it in a money market. So on your 1,000 dollars that could generate 50 dollars a year at say 5 percent. Would you consider that as a big benefit in relationship to your annual salary of $52,000? Probably not. It is also not very unique. Many companies have this advantage. They just don't brag about it, because its not much of an advantage. BTW, the government loves to do this with taxes. They will move back the tax due date to improve their cash flow. (In the past, my state has done this with sales taxes, and the federal government has done this with employer payroll taxes) It only works once though.