Just like everyone else, I too monetize my blogs with adsense. And I do receive payments every month on a net-30 basis. Payments accumilated till the end of may will be paid by the end of june, and you get ot clear it by the first week of july.
Well. I have been really happy all these months, since Adsense sends its checks payable in India through DHL from Dublin. It used to. Untill now. I used to get the check on the 1st of 2nd of every month just like most others in India and the payment would hit my account on the 3rd or 4th. And I did pay an extra $25 charge for that express delivery. I thought it was well worth it.
At around the 20th of April, I got a mail from google sent out a mail to everyone in India that there will be no more Secure Express Delivery, and all checks to India would be sent through the local courier service called Blue Dart.
Well, when i had got the mail, I thought it was cool. Saving $25, and you get your cheques from google’s Hyderabad office. Great. I should get the cheque the next day itself then. Paymet issued on the 28th and I get the cheque on the 29th. Send it for lcearing on the 29th and I get the money by the 30th. The idea was cool.
Payment was issued on the 28th of April, and I waited till the 30th. People said that only on the 30th the cheque will be handed over to blue dart, and may 1st being a holiday we would get the chq only on May 2nd. Great. Will wait. Late hua to kya hua? Paise to bach gaye na. I waited till the 5th. No cheque. If it was DHL, I would have gotten the money by 4th.
6th and 7th. No cheque. Today is 8th.
At a few forums where I participate, people just scare me. Looks like Google has made Hyderabad its center for cheque printing. It has been sending cheques to Russia and many other places in Asia and Europe from Hyderabad. People are saying that only after printing all those International Cheques, google will be sending the cheques for Indians.
Holy Crap.
And, people also say, it is India, and there would be several other problems that google might never have imagined.
1. Powercuts
2. Printer Problems
3. Delay in the arrival of service engineers to fix the printter.
4. Traffic delaying the delivery of cartridges for the printers.
etc.
Google moved their entire operations at Dublin and Singapore to Hyderabad because all Indians are loosers and work for food and nothing more and wont mind mesothelioma if they get it.
Well, at this rate, I dont think the cheques would arrive anytime sooner than the 31th of May. And we can only hope that google sorts out its operations soon and make the Hyd unit as efficient as Dublin, and make sure that we all get our cheques in time.