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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4324841" data-attributes="member: 26737">One of the joys of living in an apartment complex is occasionally having your stuff delivered to a random other apartment. I’ve never had a problem with the Walmarts or Instacart refunding my money when that happens, and Instacart usually adds a credit of some kind to make up for it. The weirdest one was a Walmarts+ order that was two flats of water and some other stuff. The shopping part went fine, they found everything, and got it out for delivery quickly. I kind of had a bad feeling when I went into the “chat with your driver” function and it said that the driver was not a native English speaker. Then I really had a bad feeling about it when the app reported that it was delivered, when it was very clearly not delivered, despite my having specified that I would sign for the delivery. So I called the Walmarts+ customer service, and they offered to expedite a replacement order. I had nothing better to do, so I said sure, go right ahead. This time, one of the items I wanted was out of stock, but everything else was OK, including the stuff that had been the whole reason I’d placed the order in the first place. Then I see that the driver had the same name as the previous driver.  No, surely they wouldn’t give the replacement order to the guy who had just screwed the pooch. Oh, what a blissful summer child I was. I can’t be sure it was the same non-English speaking joker as before, but I am certain that he didn’t deliver my order to me, again despite the order specifying that I was to sign for it. This time I just had the Walmarts refund my money, which they did without hesitation, and I placed basically the same order with Instacart. I don’t remember what happened with that one, other than it didn’t get delivered to me either (I think the driver got in an accident and Instacart had to refund my money due to it being too late to reorder).Finally, on the fourth try, I got my stuff. You’d think that would be the end of it, but no, there was one more kicker. A few days later, I got home late, so I had to park farther way than usual. The next morning, I get in my truck and just happen to look up. There, on the landing outside an apartment on the opposite side of the building at the opposite end from mine, are four flats of water and several Walmart bags. Apparently, Mr. Non-English Speaker had not been satisfied with delivering one order to the wrong apartment, he had actually done it twice. That is far and away not the norm, but dadgum it all, I guess if you’re going to screw it up, you might as well go all the way…</blockquote>

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