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Customer Service? or a
Customer from Hell? You decide!
This correspondence actually occurred
between a London hotel's staff and one of its guests. The London hotel
involved submitted this to the Sunday Times. Names have been
changed.
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Dear Maid, Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap
in my bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please
remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine
chest and another three in the shower soap dish. They are in my way.
Thank you, S. White
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Dear Room 635, I am not your regular maid. She will be back tomorrow,
Thursday, from her day off. I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the shower
soap dish as you requested. The 6 bars on your shelf I took out of
your way and put on top of your Kleenex dispenser in case you should
change your mind. This leaves only the 3 bars I left today which my
instructions from the management is to leave 3 soaps daily. I hope
this is satisfactory. Tess, Relief Maid
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Dear Maid -- I hope you are my regular maid. Apparently Tess did not
tell you about my note to her concerning the little bars of soap. When
I got back to my room this evening I found you had added 3 little
Camays to the shelf under my medicine cabinet. I am going to be here
in the hotel for two weeks and have brought my own bath-size Dial so I
won't need those 6 little Camays which are on the shelf. They are in
my way when shaving, brushing teeth, etc. Please remove them. S. White
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Dear Mr. White, My day off was last Wed. so the relief maid left 3
hotel soaps which we are instructed by the management. I took the 6
soaps which were in your way on the shelf and put them in the soap
dish where your Dial was. I put the Dial in the medicine cabinet for
your convenience. I didn't remove the 3 complimentary soaps which are
always placed inside the medicine cabinet for all new check-ins and
which you did not object to when you checked in last Monday. Please
let me know if I can of further assistance. Your regular maid, Dotty
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Dear Mr. White, The assistant manager, Mr. Strausberg, informed me
this A.M. that you called him last evening and said you were unhappy
with your maid service. I have assigned a new girl to your room. I
hope you will accept my apologies for any past inconvenience. If you
have any future complaints please contact me so I can give it my
personal attention. Call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank
you. Nancy Lopez, Housekeeper
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Dear Miss Lopez, It is impossible to contact you by phone since I
leave the hotel for business at 745 AM and don't get back before 530
or 6PM. That's the reason I called Mr. Strausberg last night. You were
already off duty. I only asked Mr. Strausberg if he could do anything
about those little bars of soap. The new maid you assigned me must
have thought I was a new check-in today, since she left another 3 bars
of hotel soap in my medicine cabinet along with her regular delivery
of 3 bars on the bath-room shelf. In just 5 days here I have
accumulated 24 little bars of soap. Why are you doing this to me? S.
White
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Dear Mr. White, Your maid, Tess, has been instructed to stop
delivering soap to your room and remove the extra soaps. If I can be
of further assistance, please call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM.
Thank you, Nancy Lopez, Housekeeper
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Dear Mr. Strausberg, My bath-size Dial is missing. Every bar of soap
was taken from my room including my own bath-size Dial. I came in late
last night and had to call the bellhop to bring me 4 little Cashmere
Bouquets. S. White
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Dear Mr. White, I have informed our housekeeper, Nancy Lopez, of your
soap problem. I cannot understand why there was no soap in your room
since our maids are instructed to leave 3 bars of soap each time they
service a room. The situation will be rectified immediately. Please
accept my apologies for the inconvenience. Hans T Strausberg,
Assistant Manager
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Dear Mrs. Lopez, Who the hell left 54 little bars of Camay in my room?
I came in last night and found 54 little bars of soap. I don't want 54
little bars of Camay. I want my one damn bar of bath-size Dial. Do you
realize I have 54 bars of soap in here. All I want is my bath size
Dial. Please give me back my bath-size Dial. S. White
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Dear Mr. White, You complained of too much soap in your room so I had
them removed. Then you complained to Mr. Strausberg that all your soap
was missing so I personally returned them. The 24 Camays which had
been taken and the 3 Camays you are supposed to receive daily (sic). I
don't know anything about the 4 Cashmere Bouquets. Obviously your
maid, Kathy, did not know I had returned your soaps so she also
brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily Camays. I don't know where you got
the idea this hotel issues bath-size Dial. I was able to locate some
bath-size Ivory which I left in your room. Nancy Lopez, Housekeeper
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Dear Mrs. Lopez, Just a short note to bring you up-to-date on my
latest soap inventory. As of today I possess:
- On shelf under medicine cabinet - 18 Camay in 4 stacks of 4 and 1
stack of 2. - On Kleenex dispenser - 11 Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1
stack of 3. - On bedroom dresser - 1 stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet, 1
stack of 4 hotel-size Ivory, and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4. - Inside
medicine cabinet - 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2. - In
shower soap dish - 6 Camay, very moist. - On northeast corner of tub -
1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly used. - On northwest corner of tub - 6
Camays in 2 stacks of 3.
Please ask Tess when she services my room to make sure the stacks are
neatly piled and dusted. Also, please advise her that stacks of more
than 4 have a tendency to tip. May I suggest that my bedroom window
sill is not in use and will make an excellent spot for future soap
deliveries. One more item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized
Dial which I am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid further
misunderstandings. S. White
Another Story:
Regret is Joy put off Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine...
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