Toys "R" Us Delivery

Someone wrote the list in September and has not revised it since: the action figure, the doll, the building set. All three can be delivered to your door.

Here's the part that trips people up: in the US, the Toys "R" Us you can walk into is almost always a shop-in-shop inside a Macy's, so the order goes through Macy's rather than a toy store of its own. Place an in-store pickup order on macys.com at a location with the Toys "R" Us section, pay for it in full, and confirm that store releases orders to a third-party courier. Request a delivery on this page once it's ready and a hopper collects it from the Macy's pickup desk, with live GPS tracking, SMS updates, and a photo confirmation when it reaches you.

Two practical consequences follow from that. The collection point is a department store pickup desk rather than a toy counter, so your request needs the Macy's pickup name and order number instead of a department — and in the weeks before Christmas that desk is reliably the slowest queue in the building, which is exactly when handing the trip off earns its keep. The other one is size: ride-ons, playsets, and dollhouses are bulky rather than heavy, so say how many boxes and roughly how large in your request, and a driver with the right vehicle is assigned instead of one arriving in a hatchback.