In contrast to just about every other post in this thread, I recently returned an item to Amazon for refund. I downloaded and printed the return form, then took it to our local service station in the early afternoon. My refund was in my bank account that same evening. I doubt if they had even received the package by then.
They refund you as soon as their system shows it's on its way back. Presumably if it turns out to be half a house brick when it arrives they charge you.
A few years ago, I also had a very fast refund. About a week later, I received my return back as "un-deliverable, no such address exists".
Was that with their own label?
My experience with returning items either to a post office to handing to our postman (having booked him to collect the item) is that as soon as it is in Royal Mail's hands, Amazon deemed to be "returned" and they do a refund.
What really amazed me was the speed at which it appeared in my account. If Amazon can do it, why can't everybody else?
If RM can contact Amazon instantly why can't they deliver a tracked item on the day when their tracking email says they will?
yes, it was sent with their downloaded address label.
To be fair, Amazon's own couriers are notorious where I live for sometimes failing to deliver and then delivering the following day. My wife has sometimes watched on the Track Your Package site. With a few stops remaining before us, the number of stops and the position on the map both freeze and the status changes to "Sorry, we could not deliver your package". It's as if the courier gets to a certain point on his round and then says "that's enough parcels for today; I'll take the remaining ones back to base and someone else can deliver them tomorrow".
I'm ashamed to say, one of the accounts had a substantial sum in it for years, the annual interest paid - 1p. Since posting, I have opened an account with another bank, which at least pays respectable interest, and transferred it to that new account.
Ah. Once they have robot delivery men they probably will.
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