I know this reads like an ad for JCPenny’s. I wish I was making money from this, but it is a great solution for many of us who are faced with getting gifts to friends and family during the holidays. I wish other companies would follow JCPenny’s lead of making the airlines’ baggage fees and TSA restrictions a sales pitch.
This was a clever and useful press release for frequent and last-minute travelers with a JCPenny’s nearby their Christmas destination. It makes so much sense, it’s convenient and saves shipping costs too.
Since airport travel restrictions make it difficult to travel with presents and airlines are now charging Grinch-like fees for extra bags stuffed with presents, here is a solution. JCPenney, with more than 1,100 stores nationwide, has a free service that makes long distance gift giving easy.
JCPenney’s ship-to-store option allows customers to avoid airlines’ checked-bag fees and wrapped gifts restrictions. Instead of packing a checked bag full of unwrapped gifts, customers can opt to purchase gifts ahead of time on www.jcp.com and have them shipped to any of JCPenney’s catalog desks across the nation.
Pick up your gifts at your destination and wrap them yourself, or for as little as $5 a package, jcp.com customers can opt to have their gifts wrapped.
Let’s take this a step farther. With a family that lives near a JCPenny’s store, you can order gifts here and just have your family members pick up their already-wrapped gifts at their nearby store and put them under the family tree for Christmas.
Let us know if you have any other clever ways to get your gift buying done and have the gifts arrive wrapped and ready to go under the tree.
Hope you have a merry Christmas shopping season.
Ahh, maybe if you thought ahead enough, buying the gifts, then wrapping them yourself and shipping them by UPS or FedEx Ground would make sense too.
I just discovered a similar program at Wal-mart (but I don’t know about the gift wrapping). Do you know of others who can help get Christmas gifts off and away for busy travelers?
Charlie Leocha is the President of Travelers United. He has been working in Washington, DC, for the past 14 years with Congress, the Department of Transportation, and industry stakeholders on travel issues. He was the first consumer representative to the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections appointed by the Secretary of Transportation from 2012 through 2018.
