General
Shipping Information
Customer Service
For questions about orders already placed, please call our customer
service department at 800-625-8238 Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5
PM (Pacific) or email us at customerservice@monthlyclubs.com
Extended Holiday Customer
Care Hours
[Commencing the Monday after Thanksgiving through December 24th.]
Monday to Friday, 5:30 AM to 6 PM Pacific Time
Saturday and Sunday, 8 AM to 4 PM Pacific Time
Order Cut Off Deadlines
- Month To Start First Shipment
You have the option of starting
your membership any month you choose. If you select the default, Next
Available Month, all orders placed after the 15th of the month
will commence on the following month.
Special
Holiday Ordering Notes: Our Holiday Order Cut off dates are
extended for several clubs to accommodate your last minute shopping
needs! In the month of DECEMBER ONLY, Beer, Wine & Cigar orders
placed after the 20th will commence in January.
Delivery Schedules and
Timeframes
Beer
& Wine Clubs: All shipments
are sent from our consolidation centers between the 15th and 25th
of each month via UPS, Federal Express, and several other Ground services.
Please allow for 7-10 business days for your shipments to arrive.
Cigar
Club: Orders placed by the 5th of the month will ship by
the 10th of that month via the U.S. Postal service. Orders placed
between the 6th and 15th will have their first shipment sent out the
4th week of the month. Please allow for 3-5 business days for your
shipments to arrive.
Cheese
& Chocolate Clubs: All shipments are sent from our
consolidation center on the 3rd Tuesday of each month via Express
2nd Day Service and will arrive in one or two business days. Due to
the perishable nature of the product, shipments are sent without a
signature required to avoid excessive periods in the carrier's possession.
It is therefore VERY IMPORTANT
that you ship to a location where someone will be there to receive
it. PLEASE NOTE: For November only, cheese will be shipped on the
2ND Tuesday to avoid conflicting with Thanksgiving.
Flower
Club: All
shipments are sent from our consolidation center on the 3rd Monday and
Tuesday of each month via Express Next Day Service. Due to the perishable
nature of the product, shipments are sent without a signature required
to avoid excessive periods in the carrier's possession. It is therefore
VERY IMPORTANT that you ship to
a location where someone will be there to receive it.
Gift Orders & Gift
Announcements - You may create a customized gift card from our
web site that will provide you with something to present to your gift
recipient immediately! Simply click on "Print Gift Card" from
any page on the site and you'll be able to create a customized announcement
or award certificate that can be emailed or printed! If you have any
questions whatsoever, don't hesitate to give us a call at 800-625-8238.
Adult Signature Requirements
- All beer or wine shipments are sent via UPS, Federal Express or local
ground service carriers with an adult signature sticker required on
the box. It's best to have your shipments sent to a location where someone
will be there to sign for it. Each carrier will make 3 delivery attempts
to get your shipment to you and leave a message each time indicating
the attempted delivery. After the 3rd attempt, the box is routed to
the local consolidation center closest to your shipping address and
you'll have ten days to pick it up before it is sent back to our warehouse.
If in fact you begin your membership at one location and need to change
the address at some point during your membership, you can simply call
us at 800-625-8238 to do so. Additionally, we've intentionally packaged
our shipments in a very non-descript, brown corrugated box such that
many of our customers are comfortable having their shipments sent to
a daytime location. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate
to give us a call at the above toll free number.
Shipping Alcoholic Beverages
- All alcoholic beverage products purchased are sold in the State of
California and legal title passes to the buyer in California effective
upon approval of your credit card charge or receipt of your check. Please
note that packages may ship from a state other than the state you are
shipping to. We make no representation to the legal rights of anyone
to ship or import alcoholic beverages across state lines. The buyer
is solely responsible for the shipment of alcoholic beverage products.
By placing an order with us, you authorize us to act on your behalf
to engage a common carrier to deliver your order. Alcoholic beverages
may be sold and delivered only to persons who are at least 21 years
old. By placing this order, you represent to us that you are at least
21 years old and that the person to whom delivery will be made is also
at least 21 years old. When the alcoholic beverages associated with
this order are delivered, the person receiving the delivery will be
required to show identification proving that he or she is at least 21
years old.
Purchase Agreement
- I agree that the birth dates of both billing and shipping contacts,
and that the drivers license of the billing contact associated
with the order(s) that I have placed are correct.
I agree that the recipient(s)
of any beer or wine of the month club orders placed on this web site
are over 21 years of age. I understand that any information related
to this order that is false is considered to be fraudulent by the purchaser
and that any misrepresentation of age will be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law.
Furthermore, by placing this
order, I represent that I am purchasing this product solely for personal
use, or as a gift, and are not engaged in any sort of law enforcement
activity.
Shipping Outside of the
U.S. - Unfortunately, at this time the only one of our clubs that
we can ship outside of the country is our Premium Cigar line.
States We Cannot Ship
To - There are several states that we cannot ship either beer or
wine to including:
AK, HI, ME, UT,
or other areas where prohibited by law. Many states require the direct
shipment of alcohol to be bulk transported into the state where a wholesaler
can take possession of it and then it is distributed by a local shipper
to a retail customer which is why many organizations are not set up
to ship alcohol into certain states.
Returned Shipments
- In the event that you are not able to receive your shipment within
the three attempted deliveries AND you neglected to pick up your shipment
within the allotted period, your box will be shipped back to our consolidation
center at which point you have two options. You may either elect to
pay a re-packaging/re-shipping fee to have your shipment repacked and
resent to you, OR you may elect to have your account credited your monthly
charge less shipping and handling charges.
Address Changes/Membership
Extension & Terminations - Please call us prior to the 5th of
the month to make all account related information changes such as address
changes, membership extensions & terminations, or gift accounts
desiring to continue their memberships. Address changes made after that
time may require a repackaging and re-shipping charge. Direct requests
by your or your gift recipient to the shipping carrier to re-route a
shipment in transit or address corrections made by the carrier to the
to the shipping address that you've provided may incur an additional
processing fee of $5.00.
Damaged Shipments
- Although we've been shipping fragile products for over 7 years now
and have gone through more than 5 box redesigns, we do occasionally
have a box that arrives damaged or is returned to our consolidation
center damaged. (Less than half of 1% of our orders are damaged in transit).
In the event of a damaged shipment, often the shipping carrier will
repack the shipment with the undamaged portion repacked in a box other
than our standard shipping box. The newsletter or any printed material
in the box will, in most instances, be missing when this occurs. If
your shipment arrives damaged, please call us immediately toll free
at 800-625-8238 and report the incident for a prompt resolution.
Shipment Frequency
- You may at any time elect to have your shipment sent bi-monthly, every
third month, every fourth month or whatever frequency works best for
you by calling our toll free number.