The AMBER Alert Program is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
A fee or other charge that is added to the cost of a good or service. A surcharge is typically added to an existing tax, and may not be included in the stated price of a good or service. It may be a temporary measure to defray the cost of increased commodity pricing, such as with a fuel surcharge, or it may be permanent.
Both convenience fees and surcharges serve the same purpose, which is to discourage consumers from paying by credit card and to offset the fees that credit card companies charge payees to process credit card payments. charge assessed by a payee when a consumer pays with a credit card rather than by check or Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer. Convenience fees can be a fixed dollar amount or a percentage of the transaction amount (usually 2% to 3%) and must be disclosed to the consumer in advance.