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.
The main difference for merchants is that debit card transactions have a much lower interchange fee (<1%, vs. up to 5% for credit cards) per transaction. Hence, merchants such as Costco are often only willing to accept debit cards.