PODS Misdelivers Multi-Container Orders and Bills Customers to Fix Its Own Errors
A customer ordered two containers destined for different states, but PODS delivered them to the wrong locations, forcing the customer to pay extra out of pocket to have them transferred to where they were supposed to go. Customer service was unavailable to help resolve the routing error, leaving the customer to bear the cost of the company's own mistake.
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