Rant on shipping

[California]

A couple of recent oddities -

* A mystery coffee percolator arrived to our home from Amazon. It's not listed in my purchase history. I'm not missing anything I ordered. Strangely, there was no order number on the shipping label, only my name/address and a routing number for the driver, that can't be interpreted by the customer. (I tried). Weight listed on the label was 2 oz while the percolator would be a couple of lbs. A half hour digging around in Amazon's website revealed no way to return it without providing an order number but there isn't any. Research online showed other customers who reached a real Amazon customer rep were told to just keep an unexpected arrival. We opened it and tried making coffee. Quality is equal to our MrCoffee but the percolator takes double the time. It went in the Goodwill donation pile.

* And at the ranch, rural - Routing of Amazon orders shows they have always been delivered to the local Post Office for last-mile delivery. The order last week was a quart of paint in a cardboard box. We saw UPS toss it over the gate, a 5 ft drop onto wet grass. It was soggy but unharmed.

 

[fried1765]

Serious, are they not any good?

I have no personal experience, but have heard some complaints.

 

[fried1765]

Re: My Pillow
He advertised on just about every radio station I could listen to and that at probably 10 times a day, also same on TV.
He sure was a big time advertising spender, perhaps a record one.

Haven't heard him for a while now, guess he's all sold out!

I don't think he is all sold out.
He is still heavily on TV here!
They can make those pillows like breeding rabbits.

 

[tradosaurus]

A couple of recent oddities -

* A mystery coffee percolator arrived to our home from Amazon. It's not listed in my purchase history. I'm not missing anything I ordered. Strangely, there was no order number on the shipping label, only my name/address and a routing number for the driver, that can't be interpreted by the customer. (I tried). Weight listed on the label was 2 oz while the percolator would be a couple of lbs. A half hour digging around in Amazon's website revealed no way to return it without providing an order number but there isn't any. Research online showed other customers who reached a real Amazon customer rep were told to just keep an unexpected arrival. We opened it and tried making coffee. Quality is equal to our MrCoffee but the percolator takes double the time. It went in the Goodwill donation pile.

* And at the ranch, rural - Routing of Amazon orders shows they have always been delivered to the local Post Office for last-mile delivery. The order last week was a quart of paint in a cardboard box. We saw UPS toss it over the gate, a 5 ft drop onto wet grass. It was soggy but unharmed.

I received a $80 SDHD card from Amazon that I didn't order. I use these for the dash cams

 

[Oaktree]

Re: My Pillow
He advertised on just about every radio station I could listen to and that at probably 10 times a day, also same on TV.
He sure was a big time advertising spender, perhaps a record one.

Haven't heard him for a while now, guess he's all sold out!

Guess you've been lucky. Hadn't seen his ads in quite a long time, but they've been all over TV the last couple weeks. Never heard them on the radio though.
He may not be as big an advertising spender as you might think. It's very likely his ads are what are called PI (per inquiry) spots in the biz. Stations/networks don't get paid for running them, but they get a commission on each sale they generate.
Lots of those "not available in stores" ads are that way.

 

[Jstpssng]

A couple of recent oddities -

* A mystery coffee percolator arrived to our home from Amazon. It's not listed in my purchase history. I'm not missing anything I ordered. Strangely, there was no order number on the shipping label, only my name/address and a routing number for the driver, that can't be interpreted by the customer. (I tried). Weight listed on the label was 2 oz while the percolator would be a couple of lbs. A half hour digging around in Amazon's website revealed no way to return it without providing an order number but there isn't any. Research online showed other customers who reached a real Amazon customer rep were told to just keep an unexpected arrival. We opened it and tried making coffee. Quality is equal to our MrCoffee but the percolator takes double the time. It went in the Goodwill donation pile.

* And at the ranch, rural - Routing of Amazon orders shows they have always been delivered to the local Post Office for last-mile delivery. The order last week was a quart of paint in a cardboard box. We saw UPS toss it over the gate, a 5 ft drop onto wet grass. It was soggy but unharmed.

I won't give space to a drip coffeemaker, but would have taken that perc in a heartbeat; it's the only way that I'll make coffee. I like it hot from the time that I start a cup until I finish it, and have never seen a Mr Coffee which would get more than "warm". Just a matter of opinion...

 

[Oaktree]

* A mystery coffee percolator arrived to our home from Amazon. It's not listed in my purchase history. I'm not missing anything I ordered. Strangely, there was no order number on the shipping label, only my name/address and a routing number for the driver, that can't be interpreted by the customer.

A gift maybe? My wife received a mystery package with some gardening tools in it with no explanation. Finally found out that my mother had ordered it for her.

 

[California]

[Percolator] A gift maybe? My wife received a mystery package with some gardening tools in it with no explanation. Finally found out that my mother had ordered it for her.

Not likely. This would have been a $35 purchase and there's nobody who would do that without taking credit for it, 'In appreciation of our ranch visit' or something. It was a couple of months before Christmas, so that's not an explanation. We have a niece nearing 50 years old who saw the old inherited percolator we used at the ranch long ago and was fascinated by that name, she had never heard of a percolator. We explained they were the classic 1950's wedding gift. She looked at us like we were from Mars. That was 5 years ago. I can't imagine anyone else who would even think we had use for one. I really think it was an Amazon shipping glitch to send it without the order # that would be needed to return/exchange a gift. Still a mystery. Thank you Amazon!

 

[Jim Nelson]

One of our neighbors has received 3 different mystery items from Amazon in the past 3 or 4 months. Mostly trinket type things that he would never think of and no way to return or trace them back to Amazon.

 

[Doofy]

One of our neighbors has received 3 different mystery items from Amazon in the past 3 or 4 months. Mostly trinket type things that he would never think of and no way to return or trace them back to Amazon.

I've heard of some Chinese Merchants sending off the wall stuff to unsuspecting folks and then giving themselves 5 Star Reviews.