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0 pointsOJFord4y ago0 comments

> I really like that for returns, they'll come pick it up. AMZ charges extra for that.

Oof, not in the UK. (At least not with Prime.)

Perhaps not quite as easy (for small enough items) as when I mostly commuted, and could print a label and leave it in an outgoing mail pile, but certainly from home I way prefer that than going to a post office (even in the absence of coronavirus restrictions).

I actually bought a printer for that purpose. A direct thermal label printer, because that's all I needed it for (and it was cheaper, has no ink to run out/dry out during a period of no use, etc.).

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silisili4y ago· 1 in thread

It actually depends on who their partner is. In my last city, it was USPS, so I could in fact put it with the mail.

Where I live now, Amazon delivers but uses UPS for returns. I can either drop it off at a Kohl's location, a UPS store, or pay for them to come pick it up.

Normally it's not a huge hassle, but it's a really nice gesture to me, especially for heavy items. I almost kept a TV stand, new in box, that I didn't need because I didn't feel like carrying it back into the store. Luckily, that's when I noticed they'll do free pickup on returns.

OJFordOP4y ago

Oh interesting. We tend not to really have variations like that across the UK (not having different states in the same way), so beyond remote islands etc. (by post code) and things like Uber/Deliveroo rolling out city by city/town by town, it's all just the same.

Amazon uses various couriers to deliver and return here (even me being in one location, in London, but also the same in the country) but when you select a return only Hermes offer pick-up. (Otherwise there's Amazon locker, Royal Mail print label, Royal Mail drop-off, various other drop-off places of the kind that are a sort of 'side gig' for a grocer or newsagent, etc.)

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