Originally Posted by dbj1000 (Post 7039925)

WTF Bob? That has never been what Amazon gift wrapping does.

How do I know with such certainty? Because I know many people who have worked for Amazon.co.uk since it first started, and every Xmas every employee, from the most senior manager to the most junior office clerk, has to spend a certain number of days in the warehouse, wrapping and packing gifts.

If you received the wrapping materials just included in the box, you probably got some skiving senior manager's box, where they just couldn't be arsed to pack your gift! :rofl:

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 6971360)

the amazon gift wrapping cost a fiver and it's crap...because they just include the wrapping in the box, you've got to wrap it yourself, unless they've changed since last time I used it...

But, gift cards, local online stores and errr...tell them the stuff got lost in the post? :D

Don't think you can ship stuff over from here any more, but my mother just shipped stuff over from blighty and was cheap as chips, sent as small packages for a good rate, she broke the stuff up into three smaller parcels, took 4 weeks to get here.

Originally Posted by dbj1000 (Post 7039925)

WTF Bob? That has never been what Amazon gift wrapping does.

How do I know with such certainty? Because I know many people who have worked for Amazon.co.uk since it first started, and every Xmas every employee, from the most senior manager to the most junior office clerk, has to spend a certain number of days in the warehouse, wrapping and packing gifts.

If you received the wrapping materials just included in the box, you probably got some skiving senior manager's box, where they just couldn't be arsed to pack your gift! :rofl:

Originally Posted by Janek66 (Post 7039849)

I saw that too, about Oxfam but mentioning Heifer....gotta consider the source though.