How start courier business?

Turtle

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I was simply asking about ideas on how to advertise a new service.
A service that directly competes with the one you have a noncompete agreement for.

Whether you take the old existing customers or go with all new customers is irrelevant (usually) irrelevant.

A noncompete agreement is a form of Restrictive Covenant, a clause that adds limitations to the employment or sale contract (including independent contractor contracts). These agreements protect the business by restricting the other party from performing similar work for a specific period of time within a certain geographical area. It's where the employee or contractor agrees not to use information learned during service employment in subsequent business efforts, for a set period of time. While "information learned" certainly covers customer lists, it also includes basic business practices. So even if you didn't poach a single customer you could still be in violation of the agreement. It all depends on how the agreement is worded and how narrowly it is written.
 

Turtle

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And in the past, weren't deleted posts more obvious ?
They were. It showed that a post had been edited. However, what precisely the edit was, what got changed or deleted, was impossible to know.

If OVM had
EDIT : If OVM hadn't
END EDIT
posted that he had deleted his post who would know ?
The moderators would know. With the new software, a complete history of all edits to a post is available to the moderators. In addition to the Edit, Report, Bookmark and other links at the bottom of a post, moderators have a History link where previous edits can be viewed and compared.

This lets an experienced poster do a drive by and hide the evidence if he wants.
My thoughts on that are, you should have the freedom to say whatever you want within the constraints of the Code of Conduct, and the same freedom extends to retracting whatever statements you make. This is important for several reasons, including that it might be off topic or after reflection you simply change your mind.

On the other hand, an experienced poster attempting a trolling drive-by that causes a disruption, and then goes back to try and hide the evidence, especially if they feign ignorance or deny they posted it, will very likely have their edits restored.

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind on something. But to make a statement or take a position on something, get responses to the post, then decide you don't like the responses so you go back and edit the original to be something else entirely and then do a "I don't know what you people are talking about," is in and of itself a disruption to the forums. I think the simplest way to deal with that is to call them on it and embarrass them by resurrecting the edit history. Other options for repeat offenders would be official warnings with points, and/or removing their ability to edit their own posts. Fortunately that's not much an an issue here.
 

OntarioVanMan

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Owner/Operator
Yep I deleted one that was a tad off in the wrong direction...it was about non compete issue....but would have ended up way in another direction then the OP wanted to know in his first query..IMO...so I chose to withdraw a statement that would have most likely derailed from the original intent of the question.....
 

BigStickJr

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Retired Expediter
Turtle, thanks for the explanation.

If I were to say I'm voting for Hillary,and then change my mind, why delete it ?
Why not post " Forget what I said 2 hrs ago, I'm voting for Trump. "
To me, deletions are a disservice.
Without deletions some people may be more careful of what they post.
And some of the best comments ever are soon deleted. Now only to be enjoyed by the Mods.
 
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