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My Dumb Return Mistake

Suzeecat — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:22:31 GMT

Has anyone ever slapped the return label on the box and dumped it at the Post Office only to get it delivered back to you a few days later - because you put the wrong label - the one addressed to YOU - on the box?

UGH ! ! ! !

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fthunt — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:31:37 GMT

I came - real close - doing that last week. I don't return a lot so doubled checked the label before sticking it on the package. Ooop - I said to myself - that was almost a major goof. LOL

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Sooner — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:42:07 GMT

Nope! Our post office and the UPS people have an "agreement" and unless you are a repeat offender USPS gets it to UPS as a courtesy. Don't know what the exact arrangement is, but that's the way it works.

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fthunt — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:53:13 GMT

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2blonde — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:53:37 GMT

@Suzeecat Oops! No, I haven't done that one, but I'm sure I could top you in some other area! BTW, when I need to return something (not very often), my mailbox is right next to my front door, and I can just leave it there and my dear postal carrier picks it up for me. (Love that!)

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IMW — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:11:10 GMT

@Suzeecat wrote:
Has anyone ever slapped the return label on the box and dumped it at the Post Office only to get it delivered back to you a few days later - because you put the wrong label - the one addressed to YOU - on the box?

UGH ! ! ! !

I have returned Netflix to myself- tossed a pyramid diamond ring over .75 carat, 14K in the garbage , never to be seen again.

The best is when I made pasta, had a window over the sink with a ledge, a can of comet spilled into draining pasta. I washed off, my ex husband commented that it was especially good. Then, when he was done eating I

told him.

Now new dh I don’t cook, married 41 years, I don’t use comet either.

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beach-mom — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:39:50 GMT

This summer,the same day we left for our summer vacation, the cathedral mirrors I'd been thinking about for a few years from Valerie Parr Hill finally came.

I put the box right beside our coat closet. On the other side of the room I had a box ready to return that I hadn't had time to drop off yet.

DD was coming down a few days later, so I asked her if she could drop off the "return" box for me. I told her exactly where it was and what it looked like, label, size, etc.

Well - after reading this you KNOW what happened! She grabbed the Valerie box and dropped it off at the UPS store we always use! After we got back I wondered where the box was, then I saw the other one still sitting there. I also wondered if the returns department would wonder why a box came back unopened! I was pretty sad.

I called CS, but of course the VPH mirrors were gone. I went on waitlist and hoped I would get two eventually. A few months later they showed up - thank goodness!

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Caaareful Shopper — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:49:37 GMT

@Suzeecat wrote:
Has anyone ever slapped the return label on the box and dumped it at the Post Office only to get it delivered back to you a few days later - because you put the wrong label - the one addressed to YOU - on the box?

UGH ! ! ! !

@Suzeecat Yes, I have made that dumb (repeating in the nicest way) mistake once before.

At the risk of sounding even dumber, can someone tell me why that other label addressed to ME is even in there with the return receipt?

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geezerette — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:03:02 GMT

@Caaareful Shopper wrote:
@Suzeecat wrote:
Has anyone ever slapped the return label on the box and dumped it at the Post Office only to get it delivered back to you a few days later - because you put the wrong label - the one addressed to YOU - on the box?

UGH ! ! ! !
@Suzeecat Yes, I have made that dumb (repeating in the nicest way) mistake once before.

At the risk of sounding even dumber, can someone tell me why that other label addressed to ME is even in there with the return receipt?

@Caaareful Shopper

I believe the label addressed to you is the shipping label the Q uses on the outside of the box of your order when you get it.

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Beth-QVC — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:45:36 GMT

@Suzeecat

Not a dumb mistake and you are in good company! I have done the same thing but my Post Office chased me down as I left the building to give it back!!!!

Beth QVC

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ciao_bella — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:43:58 GMT

@Suzeecat Your return label story brought back a funny memory that happened to my sister about 10 years ago. It wasn't about a return, but rather a delivery from QVC. Back then my sister (and I) used to order a lot more than we do today. Because the UPS/USPS men would be deliverying several packages to her house, she lost track of what she had ordered and what was yet to be delivered.

It was a very cold day in January and unbeknownst to my sister, the UPS man delivered a sweater that she ordered in those plastic bags that the Q use. He must have placed the bag close to one of the bushes that flank her front entrance way and it lodged between the step and the bush. My sister apparently didn't see the package as she entered the house from the driveway/garage side. That night we had a bad snow storm and the package got covered in tons of snow. As the winter progressed, more snow and ice, until finally the spring thaw..

Yup! There in late March was the package she had totally forgotten she ordered. I happened to be at her house the day we found it on her front step between the step and the bush. We both couldn't stop laughing. Best of all, the sweater in the bag was dry and fine!

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GCR18 — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 02:24:08 GMT

I did it once years ago. I ordered something for my mother and it didn't fit. We were rushing around on my last day in town and dropped it off at a UPS store (before smart post). My mother called a couple days later and said she got a box and it looks like the one we shipped.

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janz — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:41:47 GMT

@Suzeecat

Yep and then wondered why I was geting a package from QVC that day.

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Suzeecat — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:59:06 GMT

Thanks Ladies, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who makes "dumb" mistakes. We're only human after all! It was fun to read your stories. I got an email today from Q saying that they did (finally!) receive my return and refunded my account. All is well with the world.

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icezeus — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 02:51:56 GMT

@Suzeecat

I have done this.

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Katcat1 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 02:53:52 GMT

@Suzeecat, I did that once with someone's label. When the package came back to me, I was like what is going on? Happy Holidays!