So I live near the end of a dead end street AND my driveway is about 200 ft long (meaning you have to go out of your way to get to my house).
But a few years ago I had (in 2 boxes) a fountain I'd bought from QVC. It sat on my front porch for probably 1 to 2 months until I could get someone to move it for me.
My friend finally said she'd help move it. This is the truth. That day I came home and it was gone!
I thought she'd moved it so I walked around the yard...no fountain! I called her and she hadn't been there!
Then I thought UPS had accidentally picked it up....they said..."No".
To this day I don't know what happened to that fountain. I think the UPS guy (either by accident or on purpose) took that huge fountain.
Not only was it heavy but you'd have to have a large truck to carry it.
Also, it had sat out in the rain so the box was ready to fall apart.
I don't know if they took it. I do know I know all of my neighors. At that time they were all too old to move the thing and they'd never steal something!
So, last summer my friend gave me a huge tupperware-like box (like a trunk) for the top of my driveway. It's weatherproof and no one knows what's in it.
I have Blink cameras all around (and inside of my house). If someone comes up my driveway, I know it (home or not). Plus I have a picture of them!
When I send birthday cards (usually they have $25 gift certificates in them) I put them in a larger brown envelope. Why? Because they've been stolen over and over and (you get the idea). I take the envelope to the post office and pay extra so I know it got to the person.
This is stupid isn't it? All we hear is "it's a felony to mess with the post office mail, etc". Well, no one gets punished anymore so why not? Even people I know who work at my local post offices mail out things like I do.
My point is the fees keep going up but the service stinks. The lines are long....I just mailed out Valentine's cards. They were just cards. They had one or two pictures also in them. I had to pay extra because they had (swear to you) a flat picture in them.
I also belong to prime. I totally agree with you about getting things free shipping. I love Amazon Prime. I just gave my friend a Prime membership for her birthday. She has relatives in Hawaii so it will pay off.
I also buy things from Chewy and everywhere I buy things it's free EXCEPT QVC.
Everytime I buy something it's $3.50 and (at least $6.95) to send it back. Does that make sense?
Sometimes it's 2 items, same size, different colors, ordered the same time and it's STILL $3.50 and they throw everything into a huge box.
So, everytime I want to send something back immediately, I use the return label. Then within the month I'll decide to send something else back from the big box they sent me....guess what! I've used that return label and it's already cost me $6.95.
Here's what I do now...I save the return labels from things I've kept AND I xerox as many times as all of the items they've printed out on that ONE label.
This is stupid to have to do that! Some people don't have xerox machines...If I didn't save the other return labels I'd have to pay.
Why don't I like to pay? Because every single time I try sending stuff back myself it costs me more than the $6.95.
You'd think QVC could bargain (just like @PinkSunset said to get a rate of free shipping.
But they won't because they're all about the bottom line. To heck with the customer.
I'm a size XL-1X. I have a severely bad back. I can't walk around stores. I used to be able to do that. No longer.
I don't mind paying one way, but when I have to send it back AND every item gets charged $3.50 it's stupid. THEN they throw everything into one big box.
Phew! Now I'm going to go take a shower. Ha!
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