A Lady asked an old street seller: "How much do you sell your eggs for?" The old man replied 50p an egg, madam.” The Lady responded, “I'll take 6 eggs for £1:50 take it or leave it .” The old salesman replied, “Buy them at the price you want, Madam. This would be a good start for me because I haven't sold a single egg today and I need this money to live.”
She bought her eggs at a bargain price and left with the feeling that she had won. She got into her fancy car and went to a fancy restaurant with her friend. She and her friend ordered what they wanted. They ate a little and left a lot of food what they had orderd and asked for.
So they paid the bill, which was £150. The ladies gave £200 and told the fancy restaurant owner to keep the change as a tip.
This story might seem quite normal to the owner of the fancy restaurant, but very unfair to the egg seller. The question it raises is;
Why do we always need to show that we have power when we buy from the needy?
And why are we generous to those who don't even need our generosity?
I once read somewhere that a man used to buy goods from poor people at a high price, even though he didn't need them. Sometimes he paid more for them. His children were amazed. One day they asked him "why are you doing this dad?" The father replied: "It's charity wrapped in dignity.”
Now For the people who have taken the time to read this far...
Then I hope this message of attempted "humanisation" will have gone one step further in the right direction.
It’s sad how cruel society can be and I’m sure we can all relate to this story.
But this story can be applied to so many business situations. Selling produce at a supermarket, the supermarket will decimate your margins and as a business you want sales. So you have to make a decision. Do you reduce your profit margin to feed the rich, or do you stick to your price and lose the potential exposure and turnover. It’s a fine balance between success and failure. I can apply this tale to my first year in business. It’s part of human nature to negotiate and come to a fair price, it’s business after all. We have won work through negotiating and we have also lost work through not negotiating, it’s a fine line.
This week in Local Postal Solutions we are hoping to get back to a more normal workload as whenever there is a school holiday mail and parcels drop off quite alarmingly. We’ve already pre ordered loads of beans and bread for the school summer holidays, as by the last few weeks I am predicting beans on toast for tea every night 😂. We have been in discussions with more schools with positive outcomes. We are focusing on local charities mail currently also. To bring them the savings would be a privilege for us. I think this week on the blog we might talk about GDPR (general data protection regulation) how it effects us? Our clients? And our competition. Data leaks seem to happen everywhere, but one thing we can confidently say is we will never have a computer data leak. That’s because we have never and we won’t store peoples data on computers. We simply don’t have that technology and quite simply we will never need that technology. What we do best is deliver your mail, and we do that by manually sorting it immediately after collection. Our mail will never be sent outside of the region to be scanned, counted, recorded and sorted, to return the next day and be a potentially data compromised item of mail. Technology only slows mail delivery down which has been proven by the fact our national service fails on a daily basis to provide the service that it’s paid to do. Well that’s GDPR covered 😂😂😂😂
Not just a postman
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