what is this!?

[Mottom24]

working in the warehouse I rarely get stories from the store, nor does much happen to me. but yesterday we got an interesting phone call that I was lucky enough to be around for.

B: my boss
CL: crazy lady

*phone rings*

B: Hi, very expensive dinnerware, B speaking, how may I help you?
CL: Yes I got a package from chuck! (the other owner)
B: you did?...
CL: that's what the label says!
B: oh, the ups label, he is the owner, so his name is listed on it. what's in the box?
CL: some gift!
B:.... ok... did it come with a card?
CL: of course it did!
B: what's you're name? I'll look it up.
CL: crazy lady!
B: ok... oh, it's a gift from *says some name* do you know who they are?
CL: it's my grand childrens GIVEN names! of course I know who they are!
B: ok... then what's the problem?
CL: well they are from sweden!
B: yea...
CL: well do you ship from sweden!?
B: no... we ship from philly.
CL: I don't see how that's possible!
B: what? no they probably ordered it online
CL: well what the hell is it!?
B: the website? www.expensiveplace.com
CL: NOT THAT! what the hell is this thing!?
B: the gift... hold on... *looks it up*... it's a sauce dish. you put sauces or dip into it for chips or breads. it's really just a small bowl, you could use it for anything.
CL: well that's just stupid! how did this come from sweden!?
B: it... it didn't. your grandchildren ordered it and we shipped it.
CL: well I'm just going to have to call them. good bye!
*hangs up*

My boss was very confused, especially since he looked up the order and found out the "grandchildren" ordered it from new york. perhaps they are from sweden, but their order, phone number, and billing address says new york city...

I was confused by the fact she didn't figure this all out by reading the card, seeing our stores name on the gift box, and the shipping box and figuring it out that it was a gift ordered online or instore... crazy bitch.

[Sheldonrs]

Sounds like it won't be too long before she'll need it as a drool cup.

[QASlave]

How dare my grand children send me a gift!!! You just can't please some people.

[Victoria J]

My boss was very confused, especially since he looked up the order and found out the "grandchildren" ordered it from new york. perhaps they are from sweden, but their order, phone number, and billing address says new york city...

I can't imagine why the grandchildren might want her to believe they live a very very long way away....

Victoria J

[chainedbarista]

me thinks she needs that drool cup now; her brain is already reaching critical levels of stupid.

ouch. my head hurt just reading her complaint. she gets a gift and complains...damn, there goes another 10,000 brain cells.

[Bliss]

fook ju sheldon! my netbook's screen's covered in pieces of chicken now!

[sprocket79]

My boss was very confused, especially since he looked up the order and found out the "grandchildren" ordered it from new york. perhaps they are from sweden, but their order, phone number, and billing address says new york city...

There is the possibility that they keep a US address for stuff like this. My aunt lives in a Central American country and has an address in Miami - she rents it sort of like a Mailboxes Etc. mail box except it's for people from foreign countries. What the company does is it gets the packages and then ships them to their customer's real address in whatever country they are from. So she orders stuff from stores online in the US that don't ship to her country, or we will mail her a present, etc. and it gets sent to this Miami address where they then ship it off to her.

[Tito]

How dare my grand children send me a gift!!! You just can't please some people.

Why do I have the feeling that she would also be bitching if the grandkids never sent her any gifts?

[HawaiianShirts]

ouch. my head hurt just reading her complaint. she gets a gift and complains...damn, there goes another 10,000 brain cells.

And her first thought isn't to complain to the people who bought and paid for the gift; it's to complain to the company that shipped it! Stupid and ungrateful. Now there's a winning combination.

[Mikkel]

like a Mailboxes Etc. mail box except it's for people from foreign countries. What the company does is it gets the packages and then ships them to their customer's real address in whatever country they are from.

I don't know if it will break any rules of the board, but if it doesn't, could you post a link?

[sprocket79]

I don't know if it will break any rules of the board, but if it doesn't, could you post a link?

I don't know the actual company name, but I do know that hers is specific to her country, so I doubt that would help.

I did a quick search for "Mail Forward USA + Country name" and found this:
http://www.usglobalmail.com/

There are several companies than do this sort of work. This was just the first on the list.

[depechemodefan]

Maybe the sauce dish was made in Sweden? I still don't get the complaint. Unless she thinks if it came from Sweden it must have been expensive and how dare her grandkids spend money on her.

[Mottom24]

Maybe the sauce dish was made in Sweden? I still don't get the complaint. Unless she thinks if it came from Sweden it must have been expensive and how dare her grandkids spend money on her.

this particular sauce dish was made in south africa. they work mainly in pewter, though i think they changed metals. but no, she just seemed confused as to how her grandkids managed to buy something from any other place but sweden and manage to get it shipped. i don't think she understood how the internet... or shipping in general, works.