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  1. PeterS

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    #1 PeterS, Jul 20, 2005
    A supplier in China gave me a DHL tracking number in which the delivery got screwed up. I went to DHL.com and tried to track the number. No luck. I called DHL and gave the lady in customer service my first name and phone number.....She gave ME the tracking number that I just tried to track on line!
     
  2. Etcetera

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    #3 Etcetera, Jul 20, 2005
    Judy Patch has an MSCE cert!
     
  4. ryalex

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    #4 ryalex, Jul 20, 2005
    If she entered the phone number into that field on their database screen, it should have pulled up all of your DHL transactions. not that scary.




    If you want scared, talk to someone in the legal field and have them run your name through LexisNexis...
     
  5. RacerX_GTO

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    #5 RacerX_GTO, Jul 20, 2005
    Great. They got their tracking numbers right, so where's the package? :D
     
  6. Ike

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    #6 Ike, Jul 20, 2005
    Is LexisNexis for legal stuff different from the LexisNexis that you can access at Universities?
     
  7. ryalex

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    #7 ryalex, Jul 20, 2005
    I think at universities you normally only get their news and business databases. Law students get free access to get you hooked on the law database. Then, when you're a lawyer, and you only know how to do online research, it costs an extreme amount of money - subscriptions run in the tens of thousands per month, and then you're still billed $1-30 per search depending on the database, and then per document you print, etc (which is passed on to the client).
     
  8. Ike

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    #8 Ike, Jul 20, 2005
    Thanks.

    Are there any good alternatives to it?
     
  9. ryalex

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    #9 ryalex, Jul 20, 2005
    For law, the only other is Westlaw. Westlaw is bigger.
     
  10. Jdubbya

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    #10 Jdubbya, Jul 20, 2005

    Or scarier yet, get a letter from Lexis Nexis saying that your personal information has been stolen from their database. Yehaw.
     
  11. ryalex

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    #11 ryalex, Jul 21, 2005
    Yeah, they own a network of credit information and other SSN linked info.
     
  12. Dino Martini

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    #12 Dino Martini, Jul 21, 2005
    How does LexisNexis get your credit card info? can you have it removed if you dont want it in there data base?
     
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    #13 Schatten, Jul 21, 2005
    no... she has an MSN account. =)

    MCSE's, even boot camp boys with zero-experience certs know not to write in yellow text over a pink background.
     
  14. Jdubbya

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    #14 Jdubbya, Jul 21, 2005

    Not as far as I know. I had never heard of them until I got the letter. They were generous enough though to pay for a year worth of credit monitoring. Big Frikin Deal!!
     
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    #16 ryalex, Jul 21, 2005
    They own subsidiaries that track credit information. You can't have it removed. You're in Canada though, so it would be a different company. Maybe still owned by Reed Elsevier...
     
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    #17 134282, Jul 21, 2005
    Am i the only one who thinks "judy patch" sounds like a naughty word...? :)
     
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    #18 darth550, Jul 21, 2005
    If it is the Judy I think you mean.....maybe Librerace would have been offended...
     

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