jourdo
07-13-2007, 12:44 AM
So here is the story:
I've decided to give up on the individual comic book issue thing and buy things in the paperback collections. So I purchase a bunch of Ultimate Spider-man books from Amazon.ca (on a side note, I have some individual issues available if anyone wants them). I placed the order on June 17, and goes out for shipment the next day... Awesome!
Over the weekend, I remembered about this order and decided to check on it. It says that they were successfully delivered to my address on June 20th... Cool! Wait... I didn't receive anything on the 20th. Where the hell is my package?!?!?
Of course being the weekend, there is noone at Canada Post to help me with this. I call Amazon customer service and they send out a replacement order on July 7th. No questions asked. Awesome customer service by the way.
I call Canada Post on the Monday and the lovely civil servant tells me it is up to the sender to initiate an inquiry into this. I won't go into the details of the conversation, but basically there was nothing I could do about NOT receiving my mail.
I come home on the 10th and find two Amazon.ca boxes at my house. My wife said they were both just left on the step, not hidden or anything. Just sitting there. Now I was expecting 2 orders from Amazon anyway so I rip 'em open.
By now you can guess where I'm going. I now have both my original order (which was successfully delivered to my house back on June 20th) AND my replacement order! (My second order is actually en route... just checked on that)
Seems a little fishy to me that the original order now shows up AFTER I've questioned things a bit. Amazon.ca has likely been reimbursed for this as the order was insured, but I don't really need these extra books. Do you send these back to Amazon, even though they have been "lost" and will be paid out?
More importantly... What can you do if you have an issue with Canada Post. Someone had my package from June 20th until July 10th (I didn't look closely at the packaging to see if it had been tampered with before opening), but claimed it was actually at my address the whole time.
This just pissed me off and needed to vent a little.
I've decided to give up on the individual comic book issue thing and buy things in the paperback collections. So I purchase a bunch of Ultimate Spider-man books from Amazon.ca (on a side note, I have some individual issues available if anyone wants them). I placed the order on June 17, and goes out for shipment the next day... Awesome!
Over the weekend, I remembered about this order and decided to check on it. It says that they were successfully delivered to my address on June 20th... Cool! Wait... I didn't receive anything on the 20th. Where the hell is my package?!?!?
Of course being the weekend, there is noone at Canada Post to help me with this. I call Amazon customer service and they send out a replacement order on July 7th. No questions asked. Awesome customer service by the way.
I call Canada Post on the Monday and the lovely civil servant tells me it is up to the sender to initiate an inquiry into this. I won't go into the details of the conversation, but basically there was nothing I could do about NOT receiving my mail.
I come home on the 10th and find two Amazon.ca boxes at my house. My wife said they were both just left on the step, not hidden or anything. Just sitting there. Now I was expecting 2 orders from Amazon anyway so I rip 'em open.
By now you can guess where I'm going. I now have both my original order (which was successfully delivered to my house back on June 20th) AND my replacement order! (My second order is actually en route... just checked on that)
Seems a little fishy to me that the original order now shows up AFTER I've questioned things a bit. Amazon.ca has likely been reimbursed for this as the order was insured, but I don't really need these extra books. Do you send these back to Amazon, even though they have been "lost" and will be paid out?
More importantly... What can you do if you have an issue with Canada Post. Someone had my package from June 20th until July 10th (I didn't look closely at the packaging to see if it had been tampered with before opening), but claimed it was actually at my address the whole time.
This just pissed me off and needed to vent a little.