In plain English
It refers to the end of the shipment's trip back, not just the fact that a return was started. The carrier has already taken it to the sender or to another designated return destination.
In context
Here, "return completed" labels that the carrier's transport of the shipment back to the sender or other designated return destination has been finished.
- Situation
- Handling delivery attempts, address problems, damage, loss, holds, and returns
- What it communicates
- labels the completion of a carrier return
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not say why the shipment was returned or what happens after it reaches the return destination.
Examples
“Unlike the other box still on its way back, the return-completed parcel had already reached the sender's loading bay.”
“Once the carrier delivered the crate to the designated return depot, the shipment became return completed.”