Hi Julia,
I believe I have a solution for most things you wish to buy and have shipped. If you have something shipped Fedex, you can have it shipped to a local Fedex Office Shop and they will hold it for you for 5 days. I just recently bought some items from Janets Closet and had it shipped to the attention of Mr. X (me of course) to the street address of a local Fedex Shop where they held it for me. Like I said, you have 5 days so if you know you are leaving on a trip, time your purchase so that it arrives before you leave or after. I did not ask what happens on day 6 but I imagine they must send it back.
Fedex says they have an arrangement with Walgreens that you can also have it shipped to a Walgreens location and held for you to pickup. I called my local Walgreens about this and they were totally clueless about this. I did not trust them so I had my order from Janets shipped to the Fedex location.
The other carrier you could use is UPS. I have a local retail hardware store that is a UPS dropoff point that receives UPS shipments and will hold it until I pick it up. I have used them as well. I believe you can have a UPS shipment shipped to a UPS Store and they will hold it for you but I think they charge $5 to do this so please contact whichever UPS store you might use and check with them in advance regarding receiving and holding shipments. Also, if you call UPS, they can probably recommend a local retail shop that receives shipments much like what my hardware store does for me.
Anne
Julia,
just a quick ps to my above message.....you need to ship your order to the attention of "your name" because they will want to see your official id before they hand the package over to you.
Anne
I believe I have a solution for most things you wish to buy and have shipped. If you have something shipped Fedex, you can have it shipped to a local Fedex Office Shop and they will hold it for you for 5 days. I just recently bought some items from Janets Closet and had it shipped to the attention of Mr. X (me of course) to the street address of a local Fedex Shop where they held it for me. Like I said, you have 5 days so if you know you are leaving on a trip, time your purchase so that it arrives before you leave or after. I did not ask what happens on day 6 but I imagine they must send it back.
Fedex says they have an arrangement with Walgreens that you can also have it shipped to a Walgreens location and held for you to pickup. I called my local Walgreens about this and they were totally clueless about this. I did not trust them so I had my order from Janets shipped to the Fedex location.
The other carrier you could use is UPS. I have a local retail hardware store that is a UPS dropoff point that receives UPS shipments and will hold it until I pick it up. I have used them as well. I believe you can have a UPS shipment shipped to a UPS Store and they will hold it for you but I think they charge $5 to do this so please contact whichever UPS store you might use and check with them in advance regarding receiving and holding shipments. Also, if you call UPS, they can probably recommend a local retail shop that receives shipments much like what my hardware store does for me.
Anne
Julia,
just a quick ps to my above message.....you need to ship your order to the attention of "your name" because they will want to see your official id before they hand the package over to you.
Anne