Adsense Darted, DHL Carted

Posted On Friday, May 8th, 2009 By Ravi

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 Continue Reading

BSNL Slashes STD Long Distance Call Rates

Posted On Saturday, February 28th, 2009 By Ravi

About 3 years ago, BSNL was the first to introduce the lowest calling rates to anywhere in India at Re. 1. I remember the times when a call to Bombay costed Rs 50 a minute. It was a boon for me actually, but I still wished that the call rates would go down further as my bills were still high. Well, I am on the phone for 2500 to 3000 minutes a month. BSNL has intorduced a new plan called India Golden 50, which is a prepaid mobile plan, which attracts a monthly fee of around Rs 350, and you can make calls to anywhere in India for 50 paise. That means, if my bills were around Rs 3000 call charges + Rs 300 rental + Rs 407 service tax, my total bill would have been 3707, and with this prepaid connection, on which everyone gets lucky once in a while to get a full talk time on their recharges without any service charges or processing fees, I pay only Rs 1500+350 totallying Rs 1850, and I save nearly Rs 2000 a month. If I dont get lucky with the full talk time recharges, I pay the service tax too Continue Reading