Posted on 17/04/08
Put dollars in your pocket by avoiding these costly mistakes
The truth is, failing to be careful can cost you thousands of dollars. The good folks at the Pentagon learned this recently when investigators discovered that the U.S. military had paid too much money to a small company from South Carolina that fraudulently overstated shipping costs when sending two washers (valued at 19 cents each) to a military base in Texas. The total invoice came to $999,785 (U.S.) for the two washers. The military also paid $293,451 for an 89-cent washer to be shipped from South Carolina to Florida. You see, the Defence Department apparently had a policy of automatically paying all shipping bills if they were labelled "priority."
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