Kicker: Amazon pick-up

NICK EICHER, HOST: Online retailer Amazon typically drops packages off. But one of Amazon’s independent contractors working in the UK made a pick up.

An improper one, at that.

The delivery guy evidently stole a customer’s dog, a miniature Schnauzer named Wilma.

Wilma’s owner reported the alleged theft to Amazon customer service, to no avail.

So he emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos directly. Bezos put the situation right and got Wilma back to her bereft owner.

About that delivery man: let’s just say he’s made his last dropoff — or pick up — for Amazon.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

(AP Photo/Michel Spingler) In this Sept. 19, 2013, photo, the Amazon logo is seen on the new logistics center of online merchant Amazon in Lauwin-Planque, northern France. 

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