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Re:Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police by scrlk on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:15AM (#37338487)
> email customer service

Did you try reaching out to executive customer relations, either through [email protected] or [email protected]? (FWIW Jeff's address still works despite him stepping down 2 years ago)

Always had a very quick response and resolution whenever I had an issue that was beyond the ability of "normal" customer service to resolve.

Re:Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police by Twirrim on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:12PM (#37339522)
I'd strongly suggest ^

This approach is incredibly effective, and will almost certainly guarantee one of the infamous "question mark" emails gets sent out. There's a whole process built around question mark emails that drags in a bunch of senior staff to ensure things get resolved.

You can read about it here: https://www.inc.com/business-insider/amazon-founder-ceo-jeff...

I've been on the receiving end of an ajassy question mark email once. That was an interesting way to spend a few days. The customer was complaining about slow uploads to the aws service I worked on. All I had to go from was their country, via some guesswork. They did at least mention which region it was they were having issues with.

It took a bit of effort but I was able to prove from service logs, to a reasonable degree, that the problem was with their ISP. All I had to go from was what country they were in, didn't know their ISP, which added to the fun.

Re:Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police by namirez on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:31PM (#37339843)
Effective because so few do it. It’s just not scalable.
Re:Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police by CamperBob2 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @02:43PM (#37341901)
When you publicly proclaim yourself the "World's Supermarket," scalability arguments fall flat. If you conduct twelve figures' worth of business per annum, you can afford to answer your phone.
Re:Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police by omniglottal on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:29PM (#37353808)
You can also afford yo noy answer your phone. This is the problem.