It should be something valuable to ask me to stand in line at the post office.
I like the "If you need something returned via mail there is a $20 service fee in addition to the postage" My gas, my time.
I won't send anything without charging the guests credit card. I have not had to send anything back for a while, I am accumulating goodwill stuff, I hold onto it for about 30 days then give it away. We have more belts and cell phone chargers at our goodwill than any in our area. LOL!.
Right now, sitting on my side table, waiting to be relegated to the cellar (next stop Goodwill) are:
- a makeup mirror (which I will probalby put with the other one and then just leave in the rooms for guests to use (and steal)
- a belt (doesn't fit any of us)
- a book (that will go out on the shelf with the others)
- a padded laptop sleeve (for a backpack or some such- I'll use that if it doesn't get claimed. But, it's a repeat guest so I may just give it back next time)
- directions for a lego set (and parts)
- a weird little thing that I opened up and found out it is a shopping bag. It's in a little pouch, but when you open it up and flip it inside out it's this big shopping bag. I will never use it.
In the cellar are quite a few insulated lunch 'boxes', a pillow (in a plastic bag, but they haven't called for it) and a t-shirt & shorts which also haven't been called for.
Oh, and a very nice pair of men's shoes which I'll donate because they were deliberately left behind.
But, really, it was the idea of the check for such a little bit of money that started this. And me wondering if what I sent JUST got there, 2 months after I sent it. Or, did the owner read up somewhere that the proper thing to do is pay for it? But, he'd have to know the postage which makes me think he just got it. And it's been 2 months!
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