Online shopping has a lot of perks, but returning items you don't want is certainly not one of them.
For some people, it's an impossible journey to repackage anything that didn't fit, or didn't look right, or you simply didn't want, and take it to the post office to be returned. But for Lydia Eakin, it almost is. She lives on a remote Irish island with no access to a Post Office unless she catches a flight, the Mirror reports.
She has to catch a flight either to a larger island or the Irish mainland to get to a Post Office. In her now viral TikTok, @lydiaeakin shared her arduous journey to return her ASOS parcel which included her short flight over the sea.
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Lydia is living on one of the three Aran Islands, County Galway, which are found off the coast of Ireland and can only be reached by ferry or plane. The flight takes just eight minutes, when the weather is good, and most residents use bikes to travel around the small islands.
The TikTok shows Lydia cycling down country lanes with the caption "when you have to do an ASOS return but you live on an island". She then shows a small plane taking off and footage of her travelling over the sea to return her parcel.
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Student Lydia explained there was "multiple planes for the 3 islands, and goes 3 times a day to each" and jokingly captioned the video as "just a wee day trip".
In Lydia's bio she says she is a "knitwear design student living and interning on a tiny Irish island for a year". The Aran Islands are an all-Irish speaking community and work to maintain traditional Irish heritage and culture, including making Aran Jumpers on Inis Meáin.
People in her comments were baffled by the lengths she had to go to, and one said: "I can’t even return stuff on time when the post office is a block away." Another added: "I would just keep the item" while a third joked: "My post office is next door and I can't bring myself to go."
Others asked how the parcel even got there to start with, to which Lydia explained: "So there is a little post office in the shop but I was going to have to pay for the postage and it was a bit sketchy and I wanted my money back lol."
This sparked further questions of how much Lydia was paying just to take her ASOS return back, to which she said: "So a student islander return fare which I get is €36 (including bus) and I think visitor rates are double!!! so pricey enough! I usually take the boat."
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