Refusal to take responsibility.
Hi, Just thought I would make a note here of your handling of my issues. I ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones and then earlier today recieved the package. I drive to go and get it, as I like in the UK I had to pay import tax and handling fees. These total £47.92. The breakdown being £35.92 in tax and £12 in fees. These taxes were calculated of the shipping label of the box, which marked the shipment as the 6xx headphones of $199 value. Before leaving the parcel depot, I open the box to find a $35 lord of the rings mousepad. So now the problem is not only do I not have the headphones, but you have marked the shipment wrong so I have paid £47.92 fees for the handling of the mousepad. Which would have acrued £0 of fees if marked correctly as it is under £135. I go back to the desk but as I have already paid the fees I am unable to reject the shipment, but as the box said 6xx, there was no way for me to know before opening it. I contact support and they offer me a replacement, which...
Jan 17, 2025
Crap... I gotta cancel some plans so these don't end up sitting on my doorstep!
I suppose they could air mail it, but it’d jack up the cost a bit. While the box isn't particularly heavy, it is kinda big.
All kidding aside, that 100 person town might be a really unusual place to visit and might not be as rural as it sounds (but then again it IS North Dakota). I've looked up places where my packages end up in Southern California and it's like learning about a secret society. There are clusters of "towns" down there where FedEx has facilities. Your package pinballs around back and forth going several miles in between hops and if you look up the names of the cities, the population count looks like a misprint.
Theses places are in the middle of very dense areas of Los Angeles County, but very few people live there. They're small "towns" that are mostly industrial and some are shaped like a map of airport terminals of a major international hub. Everytime my package enters this odd fortified package zone, it usually takes around three days to break free from the gravity of the three Fed Ex facilities that are located within a few miles of each other.
Hey, punch in Industrial City, CA into Google Maps. That's one of the weird kind of places I notice my packages traveling through on their way to me.