Bed, Bath and Beyond got royally confused when we moved during our engagement and had to change the shipping address on our registry. (Never mind that we called them three times and changed it on our online profile). Fortunately, my DH's old roommate still lives at the old address so he held on to most of the gifts that were delivered there for us.
However, he travels for work and wasn't always at home to accept deliveries and after three attempted deliveries two of our gifts were returned to Bed, Bath and Beyond. We called BBB, we know which to gifts they were and who purchased them, but since the gifts have been returned and refunded BBB won't send them to our new address.
One sender is a good friend who lives in the area and attended the wedding. The other is a much older cousin who I barely have a relationship with who did not attend the wedding.
We were married almost two months ago, thank you notes for the gifts we received have gone out. I'm wondering what the protocol is for these two gifts:
1) Inform both senders of what happened. This feels gift grabby, especially with the cousin who I've never called or emailed in my life, it feels wrong to call him up and ask about a gift.
2) Ignore it, send a "thank you for coming to our wedding" note the the friend who came and nothing to the cousin who didn't. Risk being perceived as rude by both if they don't realize their gift was returned.
Is there another option? What would you do? I don't even care that much about the gifts, I'd just hate to offend anyone.