Amazon antics

[Martin Wynne]

Arrived home today to find Amazon had left me 3 parcels, 2 of them heavy.

Not ordered by me and clearly labelled to an address in Bury St Edmunds. That's only 150 miles away, so an easy mistake to make.

Contacted Amazon. They have no intention of collecting them, the intended recipient will get a refund, I can keep them or dispose of them.

That seemed wrong to me when I could clearly see the name and address of the intended recipient, but I thought I may as well open them to decide what best to do with them. It felt a bit like Christmas all over again.



48 cans of IRN-BRU and 32 packets of Walkers crisps.

Well 31 now.

Martin.

 

[Rob Manchester]

Hi Martin,
You should be buzzing if you downed 17 cans of IRN-BRU

In the US Amazon returns are a big issue see here

Rob

 

[Jim Guthrie]

48 cans of IRN-BRU.

Brewed in Scotland from girders.

Maybe better than boiled eggs.

Jim.

 

[richard_t]

I'm suffering a similar issue. My address includes an "address line 2" and for some reason some vendors don't get this, or ignore it, when I use PayPal. Hence I've had quite a few packages going to the same address but in a different town - even though the postcode is correct. I've adjusted my address in PayPal so the town now includes both address lines. Hoping that works!

 

[Hayfield]

Rightly or wrongly its the least cost to Amazon solution (which does not say its right) do you have a food bank near ? at least some good will come from it

 

[Martin Wynne]

Rightly or wrongly its the least cost to Amazon solution (which does not say its right) do you have a food bank near ? at least some good will come from it

Hi John,

There is a food bank, but I doubt much good can come from cans of fizzy sugar water and packets of crisps.

My thought was to wait until the local model railway club have another exhibition (if, when), and give it to the catering table. But the crisps have only 4 months on the best-before date, so it looks like the food bank for them.

cheers,

Martin.