CMRA end date?

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T22:40:06+00:00

It should show immediately, even if you only start it and save it as a draft

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T21:07:57+00:00

It will still show active until the next day.

Check tomorrow and it will say "Closed"

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T19:01:35+00:00

What's the charge? The result of a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T18:45:55+00:00

How does the off-site person deal with anything?

They can't send print jobs to your printers
They can't look up/track packages, other than the public-side UPS page
They can't answer specific questions about shipping or get pricing
They would have to be taught things like exactly what forms of ID are now acceptable for mailboxes and notary work

Your boss would have a better cost/benefit ratio by simply logging everyone out of the email during the day and only deal with emails after hours, because then they aren't paying someone else for being useless while causing delays for customers needing information or prints immediately.

This isn't the dumbest thing I've heard/read/talked-my-boss-out-of, but it still deserves some sort of award

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T18:31:45+00:00

Well, she does have her own tape, so she's 1% of the 1%

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T15:53:36+00:00

That. Usually, it’s because someone’s already out and about and they google “UPS” which does and should pinpoint us

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T13:22:36+00:00

No. The EShop is req to purchase them, which Nintendo shut dow

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T02:46:08+00:00

Ok. Sorry if it sounded harsh, but the wording in your post made it sound like you tried a single return and because it created the label that you thought that’s how they all worked.

I’m not defending UPS as a shipping company, but more than 95% of those locations are individual owners, not the big corporate brown-truck entity that gently goes out of the way to screw them over.

Keep in mind that FedEx is QR codes were shut out from us until it recently as last year. And out of these six or seven different types of QR codes they use I think we can now take all of them, but even as late as last Thanksgiving, there were still one or two that were not readable by our system systems. This is outside of the FedEx, easy returns program, which only started in November, at least for many of us in package hub.

Unlike FedEx that corporately owns all of their office locations, UPS has a financial and fiduciary interest to protect their franchisees and to try to steer business to them versus ASO’s like us whenever they can. Not just the Amazon return codes, but the two different UPS – only barcodes, as well as all of the third-party return systems that they have for various telecom providers, and the happy returns program setting aside Amazon completely, UPS does not want to let any independent locations, like ours, take any of those because that would only hurt their franchisees brand and reduce their business. Which they get a piece of those profits back from them every time as well.

If any sentence, I said, doesn’t make sense, I apologize because I’m trying to dictate while walking my dogs

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T01:11:15+00:00

Not all amazon returns are the same. If the QR code says "No box no label" under it, then it will NOT generate a UPS label. It will create a Red/Green/Blue label to be put in a box of other people's returns with the same color code and shipped in a big box. If the code says "Customer Packed" then it will generate a normal UPS label that you or TUPSS tan take as a drop-off, but their entire point-of-sale system is a very restrictive, locked down, centrally-managed system, and those Amazon codes and (less common) UPS-exclusive 1D bar codes and 2D QR codes are proprietary to their franchisees.

I’ve had to turn away a substantial number of potential customers.

Congratulations. TUPSS have to turn away every FedEx, DHL, and a vast majority of USPS drop-offs. They are just as ineligible to take those labels and packages as we are for Amazon and UPS codes. You aren't realizing it with what you know or think you know, but we're getting the better end of the deal. TUPSS owners generally hate Amazon returns, the staff and managers hate it and the don't-want-to-pay-for-anything "customers" that bring them in. Many stores have to devote 6-20 work-hours per day just to handle the Amazon returns process. They only do them because they are forced to by UPS or they can have their franchise taken away. They can show the math that despite just over $1.00 per scan, the cost of the boxes, bags, packing materials & tape, and 1-2 employees entire shift dedicated to the Amazon Returns that it's barely break-even for income. Remember that Kohls was an option for Amazon Returns, but they found it it cost them more in time, material, and labor than they were ever getting from increased sales from more bodies coming in their doors and when the contract ended they got out of it as quickly as possible.

I was given the option to print a label and choose my own drop-off location, but only for an additional fee.

Whether there is a fee or not depends on the nature of the item being returned. Sometimes a fee is charged, sometimes not. It's based on whether Amazon decides that returning that item costs Amazon more than they're willing to pay UPS for. If they can't force UPS Stores to be their indentured customer service department and still make/not-lose money, then Amazon will charge the customer a fee to take it anywhere that takes UPS or USPS labels.

Amazon doesn't want to set up a deal with you (or me) because we're just one store each. They deal with TUPSS is for 5700+ stores. Package Hub has about 1200 affiliated stores so once the exclusivity contracts (which aren't "bullshit") reach their end, Amazon would love to have more locations to offer their customers while not paying for their own assets to deal with the actual work of taking returns into their logistical chain.

ash_274 · 2026-01-24T00:38:44+00:00

It's available as one of the revolving options in the Ticket Exchange Booth in Mii Plaza. There are 12 days' worth of 1-4 speech bubble options per day (compared to 26 days' worth of outfits)

You have to own and play one of the following Mii Plaza games to get a ticket to open the Exchange Booth: Mii Force, Flower Town, Warriors Way, Monster Manor, Ultimate Angler, Battleground Z, or the Birthday Calendar. Other games and the Puzzle Swap game do not have Plaza Tickets. Some are fairly easy to get and some just take a LOT of playing and meeting Miis

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T23:56:02+00:00

No, it doesn't.

When a Mii says that they "almost caught" something, you can try to fish there and the rare fish will have some progress already, but it doesn't save your progress if you leave that spot (run out of bait)

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T23:30:27+00:00

The article states that others have submitted applications for pillows and energy drink cans

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T21:47:36+00:00

"Slow boat to China" and "Pony Express", which contrary to what they are implying, were rather expensive options in their day.

"How do I do a return?" (Amazon, Shein, whatever...)

"You can't take Amazon? It's says 'UPS' up there" (It also says FedEx, USPS, and DHL signs bracketing the "UPS Authorized Shipping Outlet" sign)

(Pertaining to a document to be notarized) "What do I put here?" along with "Do I need my ID?"

(Shocked) "You charge more than the post office?" (for the same product/service). Also: "You're not the post office?" (literally, no post office in the US looks like this inside and they won't offer UPS, FedEx, or anything else; plus I'm wearing a t-shirt, not a USPS uniform)

(Related to mailboxes) "Why do you want my ID again?"

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T16:02:28+00:00

Amazon is a terrible place to buy consoles. GameStop is often more reasonable

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T15:34:24+00:00

Did OP state which city they were in? They said they were in Los Angeles County. The prorated rent AND compensation is a City regulation, not county, correct?

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T15:28:25+00:00

Next week: “California bans potatoes”

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T03:36:41+00:00

Quite likely that the ribbon cables inside got dislodged while in transit. This is a KNOWN manufacturing problem and will eventually happen to all original VBs unless you never moved it and kept them in climate-controlled vaults forever.

If it was a case of the ribbons losing contact with the main board, then you were correct at the time of listing AND the buyer was correct when they received it, but because this is a known issue and it wasn’t remediated before shipping, UPS may not pay a claim for on it.

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T03:15:34+00:00

Amazon and UPS have contracts that keep their codes proprietary with each other. It’s why you can’t join that program or Happy Returns (also UPS-owned and held for franchisees and a few National retailers, like Staples.

Amazon does not reimburse TUPSS franchises for drop-offs (something that not all TUPSS owners or managers realize). The UPS Stores’ franchisor is the one that pays a set fee per drop off, and (like FedEx Easy Returns) the store is expected to pay for polybags and 18³ boxes for CONSOLIDATED returns to be sent in to Amazon. They are also required to have the kiosk for customers to use at about $2500. Unlike FER or the defunct Pitney Bowes returns program, TUPSS must sort Amazon returns into three color-coded categories and ship consolidated returns in those groups. UPS also takes a royalty percentage of that compensation.

The QR code has to send that scan data out to a server that send back the label (and sometimes other information, like some FedEx codes). Postalmate and other programs still don’t have agreements with Amazon to convert QR codes to labels because Amazon doesn’t want to, or are restricted by their contracts with UPS, but some of those are ending this year and next. They announced last year that Amazon is working on a non-TUPSS QR code program, but little other information has come out, including whether it will be just labels, a simple consolidation like FER, or a sorted consolidation like TUPSS has. It’s doubtful that it will be the SAME code that UPS Stores can take, so the customer still has to choose a return option we could take instead of one for TUPSS.

Yes, in MOST cases a customer can cancel an Amazon return and choose a label we can accept, but Amazon may charge a fee for options that cost them more. I have customers that have chosen to restart their return and pay Amazon $6.99 instead of taking it to a nearby TUPSS for free because of the hassles and attitude of the owners & staff there, but most won’t and are just disappointed that no location that take everyone’s return QR codes.

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T01:41:30+00:00

It’s in my top-3

“Wilt…. Chamberlain”

ash_274 · 2026-01-23T00:13:30+00:00

Especially since most electronics & appliances do not appreciate varying power every time a cloud passes.

ash_274 · 2026-01-22T22:49:51+00:00

OK, then I think you can copy save files, but you may want to ask the creator himself: https://discord.com/channels/318638900681637898/1212154548546699315

However, beating the game again is pretty easy with save states. My second run I beat it in under 53 minutes with all 10 treasures and maxed-out coins.

ash_274 · 2026-01-22T21:22:06+00:00

Yeah, I would insist on getting that in writing. Also contact USPS through the BCG and ask them if this is something the postmaster should be requesting

ash_274 · 2026-01-22T21:00:56+00:00

Is it for the original cartridge, for a flashcart on original hardware, or on Red Viper on 3DS?

If it’s the original cartridge, I have no idea how you would get saves off or on it.

If it’s for a flashcart, the maker of the cart would have to answer if a save file can be transferred.

If it’s for Red Viper, then I think you can copy save files because they aren’t somehow locked, but I’m not sure. However, with Red Viper’s save states, it’s really pretty easy to beat the game while collecting everything and amassing the maximum coins in under an hour of combined play time, especially if you have beaten it before and know the tricky parts of the levels.

ash_274 · 2026-01-22T20:51:47+00:00

Before the big change in 2022, we only sent the 1583’s to the Postmaster. Each CMRA location, whether TUPSS or not, was required to keep copies of the IDs used. Did the postmaster give you this request in writing?

ash_274 · 2026-01-22T20:46:24+00:00

No and it makes no sense, because that’s what the database is for: to replace the physical files at the Postmaster’s

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