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Re: Thumbs up for walmart.com customers
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lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 06:19:45 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Andrew Lipson writes:
> 
> 
> Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > 
> > Well, after a long and frustrating bout with the US Postal Service, I
> > came to the conclusion that my package from Walmart.com (containing my
> > wife's coveted Highway Construction Set for something approaching a
> > reasonable price) is gone.  Where, I have no idea.  Shipped on the 16th,
> > delivered to the North Reading MA package center on the 21st, vanished
> > somewhere between there and the Lowell post office.
> 
> 
> One of the four orders I placed with walmart.com had a similar problem.
> A few days after the other three arrived I called up the help line to
> find out what had happened to it and was assured that according to
> their in-house tracking it had been accepted by my local post office a
> few days earlier. The next day it turned up: it had been sent to
> entirely
> the wrong customer, in a completely different area (_not_ the same local
> post office). This other walmart.com customer found the packing slip
> made
> out to me inside the box, and at their own expense sent the rather large
> box (it was a Tie Interceptor) to me by priority mail just in time for
> Christmas - which was more than decent if you ask me. I haven't bothered
> to call up Walmart again to try to figure out why they thought _my_ post
> office had it.

Sigh.  This is happening to me, too.  I ordered a Hwy Construction set on 14
December.  No show so far.  I called last week and they insisted it had been
sent to and received by my post office many days prior(which didn't make too
much sense.  They instructed me to wait a few more days and call back, so I
guess I'll have to go through that nonesense again tomorrow.  This is the
first time I've ever ordered anything from WalMart.  It's also the last time.

Kevan



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  Re: Thumbs up for walmart.com customers -- (and KBkids, too)
 
It sounds like my experiences so far with Airborne @home, which is what Wal-Mart and KB often use. They use Airborne to deliver your package to a local Airborne receiving center, which then drops off your package at your local post office. The (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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  Thumbs up for walmart.com customers
 
(...) One of the four orders I placed with walmart.com had a similar problem. A few days after the other three arrived I called up the help line to find out what had happened to it and was assured that according to their in-house tracking it had (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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