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Grannynannywanny Mon 23-Feb-26 08:42:25

CariadAgain for future reference , it’s easy to do an Amazon return without the need for a printer. If you log in to your Amazon account and select the item you wish to return you will find details of local Amazon drop off points. You select the one you want to use and Amazon will send you an email with a QR code and further instructions.

For example, my closest one is the Asda customer service desk half a mile from my house. You just need to wrap up whatever you’re returning and show them the QR code on the Amazon email. They will print and attach the label and take the package from you.

In this instance I doubt Amazon will ask you to return a bag of soggy spinach. If you explain to them via the reason for return they will most likely tell you to dispose of it and will refund it.

CariadAgain Mon 23-Feb-26 08:16:19

Reassuring Granny - as I was rather thinking stirfry seemed like the first possibility.

I'm on the hunt generally for what unusual vegetables might grow profusely in a West Wales climate.

There's quite a bit of hopeful start-up foodgrowing etc of the more "interesting" variety that has been starting up in West Wales in the last few years - and some people are working towards "What else can we have/can we do re food etc". Cue for I gave a very experimentally-minded farmer friend of mine a new book just come out on umpteen types of unusual grain/how to grow/what to do with them for Christmas - and she proceeded to walk off beaming and promising it was going to be her "bedtime reading". You name it - she might well try it....

I like to contribute the odd little idea/item into the melting pot....

GrannyGravy13 Mon 23-Feb-26 08:08:54

Oops sautéed not salted!

GrannyGravy13 Mon 23-Feb-26 08:08:16

CariadAgain Morning Glory is a firm favourite here at Gravy Grange.

Goes really well in a stir fry, or even just lightly salted with garlic and soy sauce.

CariadAgain Mon 23-Feb-26 08:04:17

Morning glory - aka water spinach.

Yep...I'd never even heard of it...but am checking out possibilities for more unusual vegetables that might be able to be grown - and preferably of the prolific variety. Hence I've got seeds en route from a different firm for it - but this was meant to be my "try it out personally now - to see what it tastes like" already grown - and fresh variety of it.

Somehows a package sent last Wednesday, due to be dinner on Thursday is highly unlikely to be edible if/when it ever does turn up. Latest thing on Amazon reckons it's going to turn up tomorrow. I imagine it'll be a slimy mess by then - after all it is a type of spinach....

Fallingstar Mon 23-Feb-26 07:57:03

Me too.
Am a bit wary of cooking veg I haven’t seen before, am not the greatest cook with veg I am familiar with.

Sago Mon 23-Feb-26 07:54:54

I have to know what it is you ordered and what you were going to cook with it.

CariadAgain Mon 23-Feb-26 07:43:40

Laying bets with myself right now just when (or whether) an Amazon package will ever arrive at my home.

Living so remotely as I do - but I still want lots of variety in my food = lots of food ordered by post (but rarely of the perishable variety).

Cue for I spotted a seller of exotic vegetables selling something I had my eye on on Amazon last Wednesday and ordered a vegetable I've never clapped eyes on before and it was due to be part of dinner last Thursday.

I've never seen anything take such a convoluted journey in my life! As at 4.58am this morning it's recorded as being at Bristol. Immediately prior to that it showed up at 2.45am as both arriving at Bristol Amazon facility and departing Milton Keynes Amazon facility. Clearly they've found the secret as to how something can be in two places at once.

So at about 5 am today it was at stage 14 (!!!!) of its journey to nowhere. That journey even included a stop-off back in my home city - errrr....hello....I've not lived there for over 10 years now (as they certainly know).

There's a thing on the order now saying if it hasn't turned up by tomorrow I can ask for a refund. I'd already told the firm I wanted a refund - as it's fresh vegetables and so they'll be way less than fresh by the time I get them (if ever).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed they don't turn up until after then by now - to make life easier getting my refund.

I'm hoping to catch the deliverer when they turn up - and has anyone actually managed to get hold of the deliverer, write a "return to sender" message on the outside of the package and have the deliverer go straight back off with it and it then returns to sender okay? I don't have the facilities (eg printer) to resend it back to them - so I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that all goods from them will be okay in the event.

Whatever happens - I will be sending the firm a (2nd) request for a refund obviously. I don't want around £9 wasted on a portion of greens that are going to be looking very "old" if/when they actually do turn up.