Did anyone else get a similar message? Has this happened to anyone in the past? This is my first PPU–I will add polish haul tax in comments.
I am mildly concerned/annoyed because I live in an historic neighborhood–we have a cute tiny vintage looking mailbox up 2 sets of stairs, attached to my house. Cute until we learned that USPS serves us on foot and generally won't pick up mail from these types of boxes, I have to go to the post office in person, and I also have to pay to park.
Even the blue USPS boxes around my town only allow letter-sized dropoffs.
I know it was just an error on their part, but now it's a big hassle of an errand for me.
Maybe I can plop it in a friend's normal mailbox in another part of town….
by urbanroutine
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Here’s what I ordered–very excited to try my first Cracked, Garden Path, and Indie by Patty Lopes polishes.
hmmm. that’s frustrating. could you possibly leave it at a pickup spot at your workplace? I have a similar situation with mail and have done that before
Maybe I’m a lazy jerk but I probably just wouldn’t respond to this email if it were an inconvenience to me lol
Ain’t nobody got time for this
I honestly wouldn’t go out of my way to fix their mistake if it causes me that much inconvenience. I value my time too much to run around trying to return a package that wasn’t even my fault it got delivered.
I have been ordering from them all year and never experienced anything like this. It’s frustrating but don’t let it turn you off of the PPU experience, this was absolutely a fluke.
Not like they can track it once it’s delivered the first time. “Yep. I wrote return to sender and left it for the mail person. I don’t know why you didn’t get it back.”
Yikes, not a fan of that tone. No apologies for inconvenience or anything.
If you’re gonna send something like that as a business (to a new customer!!), make it a request, not a demand.
You can just schecule a pickup with USPS and leave it on your porch (or whatever spot you designate).
You can [sign up online ](https://www.usps.com/manage/hold-mail.htm)to have your mail held at your local post office. It would be inconvenient to have to go out of your way to pick up your mail, but atleast you would be right there to send it back.