Andrew R Stewart 

Hub bearing adjustment can mean different things to different people. Many (and I suspect the shop that did these) will determine the axle spin/feel with the wheel out of the frame. As in no compressive force from a QR skewer being in play. Others will take the extra time and effort to confirm the resulting bearing spin with the wheels installed and in the frame they are intended for and with the QR skewers that will be used. This often means that the out of frame feel will be loose as the QR will compress the axle and tighten up the bearing adjustment when in the frame.

So when you picked up the wheels did the axles spin easily with no play in hand? If so then one "method/result" was satisfied. trailangel makes a good point about the freewheel/freehub body adding it's friction to the system. Another experiment is to close down the QR levers part way and see if the spin changes. BTW what type of skewers are you using? Internal cam or exposed cam that rides on plastic? Andy