Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-20-2015, 05:47 AM
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[BTW, thanks for the golden days post. I am on reserve for November after holding a line since March, totally forgot about golden day bidding 
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Mike, I've been bidding on RES for quite some time now. There are some benefits to the golden days, but honestly, I've actually never had an X day violated. I don't even bother bidding the golden days anymore. They will show up randomly on your schedule if you do not bid them FYI.
./QUOTE]Mike, I've been bidding on RES for quite some time now. There are some benefits to the golden days, but honestly, I've actually never had an X day violated. I don't even bother bidding the golden days anymore. They will show up randomly on your schedule if you do not bid them FYI.
10-20-2015, 05:57 AM
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Wife and I did a cruise on Un-Cruise in Alaska. It's pricey but everything included (booze, gourmet food, activities). What's nice about Un-Cruise is they use smaller boats (40 to 88 passengers). Check out their web site for all the locations they cruise (Alaska, Hawaii, Galapagos. Sea of Cortes etc). Un-Cruise.com
10-20-2015, 06:02 AM
Bye Bye Maddog!
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I wanted to relay a cautionary tale I have just endured.
I wrote a check to pay a bill that I did not want going through my bill payer system. That check was stolen out of my mailbox Monday night or Tuesday morning. The thieves tried to wash the check and cash it Thursday afternoon. Wings Credit Union called me almost immediately after it happened. The teller was new, but something didn't feel right, so she called her supervisor over, and called me. It had the same check number as the one I put in the mail, a signature that resembled mine, and the check had all of the right fraud features including the embossed texture.
Wings locked my account until I could get into a branch the next morning. they opened a new account, transferred the funds, linked all my ATM cards, and reimbursed the money they paid to the crooks. All before noon the following day.
When I got back into town on monday, I went to my local branch to give them a copy of the police report I filed, they said someone tried to cash another check on Friday. They delayed him long enough to call the police. They had it all on video and the idiot used his real name, gave them his SSN, DOB... everything.
I am thankful for stupid criminals, but I am even more grateful to the sharp people at Wings Financial for not only being smart enough to catch a forged check, but for fantastic customer service. They ordered new checks for me, but I am using bill payer from now on!
Lets stay safe out there!
I wrote a check to pay a bill that I did not want going through my bill payer system. That check was stolen out of my mailbox Monday night or Tuesday morning. The thieves tried to wash the check and cash it Thursday afternoon. Wings Credit Union called me almost immediately after it happened. The teller was new, but something didn't feel right, so she called her supervisor over, and called me. It had the same check number as the one I put in the mail, a signature that resembled mine, and the check had all of the right fraud features including the embossed texture.
Wings locked my account until I could get into a branch the next morning. they opened a new account, transferred the funds, linked all my ATM cards, and reimbursed the money they paid to the crooks. All before noon the following day.
When I got back into town on monday, I went to my local branch to give them a copy of the police report I filed, they said someone tried to cash another check on Friday. They delayed him long enough to call the police. They had it all on video and the idiot used his real name, gave them his SSN, DOB... everything.
I am thankful for stupid criminals, but I am even more grateful to the sharp people at Wings Financial for not only being smart enough to catch a forged check, but for fantastic customer service. They ordered new checks for me, but I am using bill payer from now on!
Lets stay safe out there!
Similar thing happened to me, sort of....
Used my DCCU card 5 places in ATL last week and by Friday someone was running around Atlanta buying stuff, obviously with a "ghost" card cuz I had the real card in my mitts!
If I had to guess, I'd say it was the ahole db's at Fresh To Go who ran with it!
Be careful out there!
10-20-2015, 06:06 AM
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[BTW, thanks for the golden days post. I am on reserve for November after holding a line since March, totally forgot about golden day bidding ./QUOTE]
Mike, I've been bidding on RES for quite some time now. There are some benefits to the golden days, but honestly, I've actually never had an X day violated. I don't even bother bidding the golden days anymore. They will show up randomly on your schedule if you do not bid them FYI.
./QUOTE]Mike, I've been bidding on RES for quite some time now. There are some benefits to the golden days, but honestly, I've actually never had an X day violated. I don't even bother bidding the golden days anymore. They will show up randomly on your schedule if you do not bid them FYI.
10-20-2015, 06:59 AM
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To resolve that issue you tell them you don't have child care (if you have kids) for the X days.
10-20-2015, 07:00 AM
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[QUOTE=Carl Spackler;1995797]Hey guys, my wife and I are considering a Viking River Cruise this Spring. We've done the Carribean cruises and didn't really enjoy them. They just seemed like food-fests. Has anyone done a Viking River, and do we get any airline rates on them?
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Carl,
Something much more memorable might be a canal barge rental through the canal systems (France, Holland, England, Germany, etc). Cheap, do-it-yourself fun at your own pace, no prior boating experience needed, wafting along intimate little canals thru pastoral European countryside with merely "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou..."
Walk along the footpaths, bike into local villages, have the wife open and close the ancient locks, as you glide through.... Doesn't get anymore romantic. You can rent one by yourself, or share.
Worth looking into
Carl[/QUOTE/]
Carl,
Something much more memorable might be a canal barge rental through the canal systems (France, Holland, England, Germany, etc). Cheap, do-it-yourself fun at your own pace, no prior boating experience needed, wafting along intimate little canals thru pastoral European countryside with merely "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou..."
Walk along the footpaths, bike into local villages, have the wife open and close the ancient locks, as you glide through.... Doesn't get anymore romantic. You can rent one by yourself, or share.
Worth looking into
10-20-2015, 07:03 AM
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Really? I've only been here a year and have already been worked into my X days. Had one day of reserve on the last day of the bid month (didn't bid for that) and a line the next month. Was awarded a 4 day on my one day reserve block. I will always drop a golden day at the end of my reserve blocks, if able.
10-20-2015, 07:33 AM
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Am I trying to create a loophole that does not exist?
10-20-2015, 07:54 AM
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I put in an APD for the 28th (and only the 28th) next month to drop day 4 of a 4-day next month. As I read 23.I.8.a, the 28th is not a day covered by the major holiday exemption. The APD was denied due to capped reserves. Reserve coverage for the 28th far exceeds 25%.
Am I trying to create a loophole that does not exist?
Am I trying to create a loophole that does not exist?
10-20-2015, 07:56 AM
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Spill Over Into a Reserve Month
I move backward from line holder to reserve in Nov...never been reserve before. Question:
If I pot swap for a late Oct trip that spills over into Nov (x days), does that allow me pay-back days the same way a Green Slip in a res month would?
If I pot swap for a late Oct trip that spills over into Nov (x days), does that allow me pay-back days the same way a Green Slip in a res month would?
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