Good morning,
In reveiwing this thread running on Army.ca,
http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/67749.0/topicseen.html, I've become aware of an issue that concerns me regarding the non-availability of Tim Horton's Gift Certificates.
I had recently purchased some of your paper gift certificates and included them in a care parcel that I sent to one of my friends in Khandahar. Upon receiving the parcel, one of the things he noted in his "thank-you" email, was a comment about being able to go over to Timmies and relax having a coffee.
Sadly, it would seem that I will not be able to do this for my friend in the future due to your new policy of electronic card payment/gifting. It would also seem that the card reader is not employed at the KAF Timmies outlet, thus Canadians who have been so wonderful at Supporting their Soldiers overseas by including the paper Tim Horton's Gift Certificates in their letters and packages, can no longer do so.
Sure, according to your "standard" response given to those who have included their replies on the web-site above, average Canadians can now certainly still obtain them via convoluted "corporate means" to Support their Soldiers, but in your haste for corporate effeciency -- your new corporate policy has certainly not made it very effecient to be able to provide that small morale boost to deployed personnel any more.
Please, do not respond to my email with your "standard" corporate response that others have been receiving.
I have two simple questions that have been asked of your Company previously, but a direct answer by you was not provided.
1) Yes, paper certificates are still available via convoluted means; But, will this always be the case because I note your response says "while available". What do you plan on doing about correction of this situation once your "stock" of paper certificates has dried up?
2) When WILL you be making an electronic card reader available at the KAF Tim Horton's outlet? (A date -- or at least a forecasted date is the ONLY response required)?
I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you as to how you plan to make corrections to the above policy which will allow Canadians to support their troops a tad more effeciently than currently seems to be the case.
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