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Customer says MacBook ordered during Big Billion Days was delayed 15 days with wrong hub and no support update

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When Last-Mile Delivery Breaks, No Escalation Can Fix It: What a 15-day MacBook delivery taught me about capacity and visibility I ordered a MacBook Air M5 on Flipkart during Big Billion Days. The deal was good. Everything after it was not. The promised delivery date was 11 October, and Ekart's tracking showed the parcel had already reached Chennai. Then the date kept slipping. Every support interaction ended with "We have escalated your issue, and you will receive an update within 24 hours." Ten days later, after calls, emails, a post on X and a National Consumer Helpline complaint, I had nothing. So I tracked down a hub myself. It was the wrong one, but the Ekart staff there traced my parcel and sent me to the right one. The frontline team did what the escalation process couldn't. What I took from it: 1.Capacity: Sale-day forecasts must translate into hub-level staffing, not just order volumes. 2.COD and exchanges: Staff told me about 75% of orders at that hub were COD (anecdotal, not verified). Exchanges also take longer and need specialised staff. Both can become bottlenecks. 3.Visibility: "In transit" doesn't tell you where a parcel is, why it's stuck or who owns the next step. What platforms could do: 1.Run a sale-period capacity war room. 2.Build separate workflows for COD and exchange orders. 3.Replace the generic 24-hour promise with the last confirmed location, the reason for the delay, a realistic new date and a named owner. Give frontline teams a unified shipment view and the authority to act. As someone in product, I see a familiar pattern: what looks like a support failure is often an operations or visibility problem. The fix isn't another escalation layer. Flipkart won me over with the deal. The delivery experience was a nightmare. What are the biggest bottlenecks during peak sales, and what has worked for you? #ProductManagement #CustomerExperience #LastMileDelivery #SupplyChain #Ecommerce

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