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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Sorry, but your expectations are unrealistic.

Your options are to either go in person to an Academy store, or order it off Academy's website. The individual stores aren't set up to handle shipping individual items themselves. They'd have to figure out stuff like shipping cost and sales tax for your specific location on the fly, plus deal with the packing and shipping without the benefit of a shipping department, and then have some mechanism to remit the sales tax to the appropriate city and state on the back end. Then the individual store would also be assuming the liability and hassle of dealing with any lost or damaged shipment.

Instead, all mail ordering is done through their e-commerce website, which has systems in place to handle all those intricacies of a mail order, and then it's shipped from a central warehouse. It's much simpler and more efficient this way.

All of the chain stores work this way. You can't call up an individual Walmart or Best Buy or Cabelas store and tell them to ship you something. That's handled through their websites instead.

There may be a few mom and pop individual stores out there that would take a phone order like that, but not many these days.

(When you were doing "charge sending" back in the day, I'm going to assume it was well before the requirement was put in place for businesses to collect and remit sales tax on all orders, even those from other states. That's only one example of how modern mail ordering has gotten more complicated.)

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Yes. E is a measure of wide width in shoes. 4E is 4x Wide.

D = Standard width
E = Wide
EE = Extra Wide
EEE etc.
EEEE etc.

Some shoe companies go all the way up to 6E widths.

(Narrower than standard width shoes work the same way in the other direction, just using A's: A = Narrow, AA = Extra Narrow, and so on.)

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by bendable:
They won't xfer them to the fulfilment center to be mailed out.

Because there's no need for them to do so. The fulfillment center already has them in stock in its warehouse. You just have to order a pair from their website.

https://www.academy.com/p/new-...es?sku=white-14-eeee

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Originally posted by bendable:
The
Standard is $8.00 per pair s&h.

Perhaps back when you were doing it, but not today. Nowadays, you can't ship a shoebox anywhere for only $8, not to mention also cover the business' additional labor and supply costs required to ship it.

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Originally posted by irreverent:

I tried to create a prepaid shipping label for an international destination. I’ve gone into the UPS store twice to be told by the dim bulbs behind the counter “that’s easy, just go online”… I.e “we aren’t going to do that for you”.