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    Old 10-19-2010, 07:31 PM
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    I would be very upset with the quilt shop and the postmaster. I would want to know from the postmaster, why he is charging the extra. The attitude at the quilt shop shows very poor custmer service. If a quilt shop does not have great customer service, I do not deal with them. There are too many shops around that appreciate my business.
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    Old 10-19-2010, 08:13 PM
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    Cotton Loft, welcome to my "Never Shop At" list.
    That is terrible that they would reply to you that way! Whether or not the Postmaster should have charged you extra is beside the point! Good CS demands that they make good with you and take it up with their post office who allowed the package to ship in the first place!
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    Old 10-19-2010, 09:38 PM
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    One has to wonder who the person was to whom you spoke at the shop. I can hardly imagine an owner saying such a thing (then again?); perhaps it wasn't an owner but a disgruntled employee; do you know for sure?

    Also, I thought the shipping post office was responsible for deciding the charges. The way this one sounds, anybody along the line could tack on whatever they wished. And, the fact that the delivery person questioned the additional fees demanded by the PM makes me really suspicious of the PM's actions. Hindsight says you might have needed to ask for an official receipt in case the extra was going into his pocket!

    Bad karma all around! Sorry it happened to you.
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    Old 10-19-2010, 10:14 PM
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    I think I would take it with the postmaster and not trash this (small) company
    who did everything in good faith. Imagine if you had a fabric business and
    every customer start calling you because their PM charged them extra.
    What would you do?
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    Old 10-20-2010, 05:01 AM
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    I think I would take itup with the PM. They should not be able to tack on extra chrges!
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    Old 10-20-2010, 05:16 AM
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    I did get a "paid" receipt from my postman, and the responses were from the company's owner. So "trashing"??? Really! I would want to know if one of my customers had to pay extra postage on something I sent to them, AND I would do something as a gesture of good faith.

    So as to not let some believe that I am "trashing" a business, I will ask the moderator to close this discussion.
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    Old 10-20-2010, 05:23 AM
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    My friend just ordered some decorative collars for mother-daughter dresses for the holidays.One day I got the mail and this huge envelope was in it but one of the corners was torn off!You could see that the collars had been stuffed into it with no room to spare.If it had rained that day the material inside would have gotten wet.The door on the mailbox falls down from time to time.This isnt good business is it to send packages that are stuffed to the breaking capacity?
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    Old 10-20-2010, 09:04 AM
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    Since I have several orders coming from Cotton Loft, I contacted my PM. I was told if you can pack it in and it is not just covered with tape to hold it together, it goes for the special rate. He showed me some that were 3" thick in the middle, all were clearly extremely well packed, more than I would have done. He said the postage you pay at the time of shipping is THE postage period. You should go to your PO and complain. When I mentioned this to one of the girls at CL, they said they had been doing this for years and never had a pkg. come back for more postage or rejected by USPS.
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    Old 10-20-2010, 09:41 AM
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    I think you should contact a higher-up in the Post Office system and tell them that your local PM is charging extra fees. How do you know the "extra" went into the till???

    I wonder what the higher official would say about all that!!
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