Overdue Payment . . . .
Published Aug 30, 2003
A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totalling a substantial amount of money. The distributor noticed that the previous bill was still outstanding.
The collections manager left a voice-mail for them saying "We are unable to ship your new order until payment is received for the last one."
The following day, the collections manager received a collect phone call, "Please cancel the order. We are unable to wait that long . . . . .
Originally published August 31, 2003.
