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An appeal to the US Postmaster General on the State of the USPS Website Tracking Invalid Information

Dear Ms. Megan J. Brennan Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service We are now on our way to the 22nd century, it's now the year of the Millennial ruling our society where everything is social and mobile friendly. In the 90's way back when the Internet spanned as the future of retail and e-commerce and back then when SEO's and online customer ratings and feedback played an important success and demise of online brick and mortar stores started the fast shipping and with USPS tracking on every book sold online. Today, the USPS tracking numbers can be safely assumed as a requirement on every transaction sold online and shipped "fast".  Yet from the 1990's when the USPS Website tracking info had issues on "Invalid Number", "Input Correct Number", "Pre-Shipment" and "No Information" available till today a few months to 2018, these same problems prevail and continues. I c...

Victory! Amazon Will Collect and Remit Sales Tax in All States With Sales Tax Laws

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Victory! Amazon Will Collect and Remit Sales Tax in All States With Sales Tax Laws This story took like 9 years in the making.  Way back when it started, every independent book retailer lost sales online trying to comply with adding sales tax on every sale. This resulted on online book buyers merely going to Amazon as they did not have to pay additional sales tax adding up to the cost of each book. This finally vindicated the fact that no one is above bigger than Uncle Sam. And besides we as taxpayers benefit from paying taxes. It was years of advocacy initiatives with fellows from the American Booksellers Association. Finally, it is done and Amazon will start collecting Sales Tax by April 1, 2017. Nowadays when it's getting much and much impossible to think of profitability in selling books, when even E-Commerce platforms offering advanced website integrations and SEO's do not want to go to books as a category stating it's really so fast moving, cheap pr...

Our 2016 Affordable bestselling books - Affordable Books On Line

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Some of ADLE International's  Affordable Books on line  most bought bestsellers this year. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child   -   The Hidden Life of Trees  -  Fantastic Beast  -  Star Wars Rogue One - One Secret Mission  -  When Breathe Becomes Air  -  The Underground Railroad  -   The Gene  -    The Undoing Project  -   ADLE International started from a lof of humble beginnings, successes, pitfalls, and mistakes as any struggling start-up home based small business enterprise. The story of Affordable Books and ADLE International encompasses the life stories and struggles of persistence and determination of it's founder, author, writer, blogger philanthropist,  Alex Esguerra . As a major brick and mortar online independent retailer, the storytelling begins with  smallbusinessmentors   in 1999. Fresh from the collapse of an export and etock market em...

Filipino Kids Asking the favor to support them

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The Elections are Over, now we heal towards change and recovery

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We did our parts in spite of the risk even to our own self, safety and integrity. We placed everything on the line because some thing needs to be done. Yet, we were victorious, we were right and we have persevere. Today is a new world, it is time to unite, get over it and live towards the present and the future. Over the so much uncertainties, challenges and opposition beneath the odds change has come to America and soon to be the world. Change is about fundamental values. It needs to come from own individual self. Only when we start to forgive the people that had question us, attack us, mock on us because of our believes can we fully start to feel the healing of repentance. It is just a mere acknowledgement of saying it is done and we have chosen the right man to lead the change. Never before did we see a president that was not afraid of ratings, off traditional politics and most of all the giants of corporate greed. To people that have question me I say, I forgive...

The Elections are Over, now we heal towards change and recovery

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We did our parts in spite of the risk even to our own self, safety and integrity. We placed everything on the line because some thing needs to be done. Yet, we were victorious, we were right and we have perservere. Today is a new world, it is time to unite, get over it and live towards the present and the future. Over the so much uncertainties, challenges and opposition beneath the odds change has come to America and soon to be the world. Change is about fundamental values. It needs to come from own individual self. Only when we start to forgive the people that had question us, attack us, mock on us because of our believes can we fully start to feel the healing of repentance. It is just a mere acknowledgement of saying it is done and we have chosen the right man to lead the change. Never before did we see a president that was not afraid of ratings, off traditional politics and most of all the giants of corporate greed. To people that have question me I say, I forgiv...

The Elections are Over, now we heal towards change and recovery

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We did our parts in spite of the risk even to our own self, safety and integrity. We placed everything on the line because some thing needs to be done. Yet, we were victorious, we were right and we have perservere. Today is a new world, it is time to unite, get over it and live towards the present and the future. Over the so much uncertainties, challenges and opposition beneath the odds change has come to America and soon to be the world. Change is about fundamental values. It needs to come from own individual self. Only when we start to forgive the people that had question us, attack us, mock on us because of our believes can we fully start to feel the healing of repentance. It is just a mere acknowledgement of saying it is done and we have chosen the right man to lead the change. Never before did we see a president that was not afraid of ratings, off traditional politics and most of all the giants of corporate greed. To people that have question me I say, I forgiv...

Celebs Support Books on MSNBC

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Thanks to MSNBC Videos and Celebs for acknowledging books. Celebs Come Out to Support Books http://www.bestcarparkingapp.com/2015/12/independent-contractor-brand.html http://www.affordablebooksonline.com '

Technology is not the problem it can be leadership it has to be beneath the management chain

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Today's economic depression has been the main ingredient of the failures in the different industry sectors.  As the impact now reaches the streams of the high tech industry, maybe we can also re-assess some of the major impediments affecting large technology savvy companies experiencing the perils of the economy. Even with onset of continuous process improvement and planning sometimes one would still question the profitability potential from the investments which initially so much tempting. Although it is true that the only way to grow a business is open it up for more people to be involved.  However, some small business entrepreneur seem to take so much time on doing so. Through the years, I have observed this gradual slow process methodology.  It has something to be with leadership especially from the intial founders of the business.  Yes, technology improvements will definitely boost productivity but creating the value integration in the whole p...

My simple pitch by Alex Esguerra

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Is "risk" a friend or foe especially in investment during bullish markets

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As the saying goes, if you want to nurture great returns you have to take great risk. which is in the investing world is viewed as the higher the risks, then the assumption is on market volatility. For me, risks is an uncertainty for the fear of loss but it is there if we presume it as a loss then risk does not or will not exist, It is just like in the process of retail and the business model we use at Affordable Books. When buyers and competitors leverage on lower pricing to kill the smaller guy like us, the giants have the thinking that they have prevailed and created a more bigger opportunity for them. So a lot of the small independent sellers like us suffer and sometimes sadly think that the opportunity was not worth the effort all along. So the capitalistic behaviors is immediately "refocus and assess" the business risks and potentials towards viability. However, creatively speaking from an investment perspective point of view, we sometimes think that leverag...

Collecting Books as Hobby and Business

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On a Young Entrepreneur speaking engagement I spoke, on an open forum preceeded by being asked if I used a Book Scanner. Nowadays, book scanning is the high tech ingredient where you use your smart phone or blackberry integrated with a scanner. You scan the back of the book's UPC, Bar Code or ISBN no. My answer is that I do have the capability as it is a real cool dundy tool must have. However, on another side, I come from the old school of being a book reader, collector, dealer and then seller. A book for me is a tool and guide for information and learning. I started reading Hardy Boys and Marvel Comics by DC when I was five. Then I also did speed reading and took pilot (beta test) schooling at that time which is commonly known as home study. As an army brat, I had to go into different schools and start over, thank GOD for being a accelerated student then. The different kinds and variations of books is not only interesting but ...

The New Trend is "Book's Rental" Business

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There is a new business in town from the University Press Core Paparazzi. http://www.chegg.com/ While browsing online, I saw how the new trend is just to rent books. I think it's a great idea especially if you are a broke university student nowadays. This is not a paid advertising but for me to endorse it side by side with my own blogs, http://www.alex-esguerra.com/ only means I am sold on the idea. Good luck, university paparazzi's. http://www.bestcarparkingapp.com/2015/12/independent-contractor-brand.html http://ww.affordablebooksonline.com https://adleinternational.wordpress.com

Books and Things Websites New Look

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Yes, we have a new prostore look! Books and Things Webstore Or check out our golf store at: The World of Golf ADLE International -partners of limited income earners living pacheck to paycheck. http://www.bestcarparkingapp.com/2015/12/independent-contractor-brand.html http://www.affordablebooksonline.com https://adleinternational.wordpress.com