Please Be Like Santa and Check That List Twice
I just wanted to do a quick PSA for my fellow online shoppers about the importance of making sure you got all your packages this year! I recently was reading a Reddit about how Fenty Beauty hadn’t shipped an order and was impossible to get in touch with. I’ve seen similar problems with Too Faced. I haven’t personally had issues until recently which I’ll get into shortly. But just a friendly warning be sure you’re checking up and making sure you got all your packages because let’s face it we’re all busy. Busy with the Holiday season, busy with work, and life. Sometimes we just forget. Also, I know I do about 98% of my Holiday shopping online and that means I’m getting a lot of packages and it’s hard to keep track of them all! I remember last year I forgot about an item I had purchased on Mercari and about a week after it was “delivered” I realized the Post Office had lost it. Sadly, I lost my money on that one (it wasn’t much thankfully). I do get emails and notifications on my phone but again, when you’re busy sometimes you aren’t always keeping track.
I’m also bringing this up because I placed two Kaja Beauty orders on Black Friday. I got the first one super fly fast and I forgot about the second one until recently. So, I scrolled back through my emails and noticed it never shipped. It took two emails to Kaja Beauty to finally get a tracking number and I got the box this past weekend. So, word to the wise check those orders! Make sure they were shipped also, and make sure the delivery service didn’t lose them!
Amazon is legendary for doing this to me too. I get a notice that “my item has arrived” and I go outside and nothing is there and the item comes the next day. It’s my local post office marking the item as delivered when in fact it wasn’t but it’ll magically pop up the next day. This is during the non-holiday season as well! I imagine they are overwhelmed and perhaps they mark it as delivered to appease management or even Amazon. But it can be panic-inducing when you’re looking for a box and it isn’t around. I live in a private home with a long drive plus I have Nest cameras around so I’m not suspecting porch pirates but I do worry about the PO losing it.
If you do a lot of online ordering I always find it’s a good idea to make a folder in your inbox to keep all your invoices in and as items arrive you can either archive the order confirmation email or delete it. It’s a nice and easy way to keep track of everything and to ensure you receive all your items.
Good luck! I wish you a happy season of items arriving safely and quickly.