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Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« on: June 08, 2020, 10:47:31 pm »
This is an akward situation for me so I will ask your opinions.
Several gifts were sent to my nieces three children recently.
I packed up and mailed baby clothes; she politely sent a wonderful paper Thank You--postmarked June 3.
Meanwhile I ordered two items for her new baby from a online store.  I looked at the site yesterday and it claims one item was delivered May 26 and one is still on order (grrrr).
I wonder if the May 26 item was really delivered to her front stoop but hate to contact her as if I'm fishing for another Thank You note.


Should I e-mail her explaining it's akward but I want to be sure the kick@ss personalized item I ordered did indeed arrive?

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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2020, 03:05:07 am »
Yes, I think you should. You can slip in a mention of having received her delightful thank-you for the first item, just to make clear that you aren't accusing her of not doing her social duty. At a time when mail and delivery services are all over the place, it's 100% legit and reasonable to warn someone to expect a parcel, and ask them just to send an email as soon as it arrives safely (rather than a lovely letter which might take just as long to reach you).

My DH ordered a present for me from the USA in what should in ordinary times have been plenty of time for my birthday; it took four weeks for the carriers to move it between Albuquerque and LA, and another fIve days to arrive at our local post office. He watched its progress on the carriers's site so at least he knew it was on its way, however slowly. But if he had ordered it for some other family member at another address, and hadn't had a tracker site for it, he would have been left wondering if it had arrived weeks ago and the recipient just hadn't bothered to send thanks, or had sent them by snail mail and that response was also stuck in the post.
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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2020, 04:23:01 am »
Yes, just let her know that you want to confirm that she got the item since it was a mail order item. Sometimes things go astray.

Last month I had an order that stated it was hand delivered to me, but it was delivered across town. Had I not been the one to order it, I would have had NO IDEA. I actually got into a slight argument with the company because it showed it was hand delivered until I flat out told them I wouldn't have opened the door no matter what since I was positive for covid-19  and quarantined.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2020, 06:36:36 am »
Yes, kindly say something. The package can get lost, delivered to another address, or stolen.
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2020, 07:55:58 am »
I agree with the others. Ask about the package and stress that it is out of concern that it may not have been delivered. I would also mention that a second one is coming so that she knows to watch for it. I love the idea of mentioning the lovely thank you note as it seems to help focus the message that you are sending (confirmation of the delivery and not a demand for thanks.)
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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2020, 08:52:51 am »
Last year, I ordered some purple plaid linen (end of the bolt) and it was marked "delivered" but the location it was "delivered to was some five miles away (wrong intersection).  I contacted the post office by phone twice, ran in to the usual mail man at the mailbox & mentioned it again (after I'd contacted the company about a smaller remnant that was the last of the fabric that they had - no more available - but not quite enough for the project "as planned").  The usual mailman went looking around (I told him were it had been delivered - intersection of two other streets) and he tracked it down and it was in my mail box a day or two later.  I tend to try to stay on top of things that I'm expecting...especially when it is something that is not still in production. 
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2020, 09:29:24 am »
I agree with everybody else that you should contact her. I sent a wedding gift from a registry once and asked them to deliver it to the bride. She didn't know who sent it. They didn't include anything in the package to tell her, and she was hoping someone would ask her about it.


Sometimes the people who receive misdirected packages don't know where they belong. My friend got a computer circuit board delivered to her that she didn't order. Another lady on my Next Door app got a package with someone else's name and her address on it.
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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2020, 11:11:14 am »
I agree that you can email. I'd go with a "Hi, was checking status of the order from kids store. I see that one was delivered on 26 May but the other items is on backorder. I'll let you know when I get an update on shipping schedule so you can be on the lookout for it."

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« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2020, 12:48:01 am »
Last year, I ordered some purple plaid linen (end of the bolt) and it was marked "delivered" but the location it was "delivered to was some five miles away (wrong intersection).  I contacted the post office by phone twice, ran in to the usual mail man at the mailbox & mentioned it again (after I'd contacted the company about a smaller remnant that was the last of the fabric that they had - no more available - but not quite enough for the project "as planned").  The usual mailman went looking around (I told him were it had been delivered - intersection of two other streets) and he tracked it down and it was in my mail box a day or two later.  I tend to try to stay on top of things that I'm expecting...especially when it is something that is not still in production.
I'm impressed with your letter carrier! Excellent service on his part.
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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2020, 03:12:44 pm »
Ordinarily I'd say no, but in this case you did get a nice note from her, so it gives you some breathing space.  I'd still be super tactful about it, though.  Referencing her sweet note for the other gift is a good idea, I agree.  Maybe something like, "Let me know when the personalized gredunza arrives -- I hope you like it" or something like that.  You'll find some way of making sure that it's clear you aren't chastising them for not writing sooner.  It really hasn't been THAT long, anyway.  Maybe, "By the way, I got a notice that the personalized gredunza was delivered, so if it wasn't, please let me know so I can follow up."  Not mentioning WHEN you had been told it was delivered might help a bit.  And for sure I would include this as an oh-by-the-way in a longer message, not a message only about the gift.

As others have noted, sometimes there is no enclosure saying who a gift is from.  My daughter lives overseas and just set up a registry; she is having her baby gifts sent to our home in the US for us to bring when we come.  I was surprised that two of the four packages that have come so far had no enclosure saying who sent it.  She is able to find out from her registry.  In both cases, they were separately shipped parts of orders; the other parts had come with an enclosure.  One time one shipment was from an independent retailer, the other time both were from Amazon.  So it does seem that it is becoming more common for mistakes to happen with enclosures and delivery addresses, perhaps because the merchants are getting overwhelmed right now when everyone is ordering instead of shopping.



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Re: Did you receive the gift huh? huh? huh?
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2020, 09:54:21 pm »
Thanks for the pep talks.  I contacted niece who explained she had received the box but put it aside thinking it was for her daughters birthday the following week.  We exchanged a few nice e-mails, caught up on news, and I was sent cute photos of the kids.
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