Newbury, read your original post again. Always helps as you know we tend to go astray. Particularly me...:ashamed:
My response time from Amazon when I lived in suburban Philadelphia PA four years ago was extraordinarily good. They didn't work on Sundays back then,
which I applaud, but otherwise there must have been a distribution warehouse twenty miles away it was so fast.
Now...in the somewhat boonies of the Inner Banks of NC, the distribution center must be way further away, and no matter what I purchase, the
response time is 1 to 3 days longer than it used to be in PA. Like going from broad band to dial up.
If you are ordering a shirt, what's the rush? If you need a part and a machine is down, and you can't find it locally or it's not in stock locally,
who do you call ghostbuster?
Amazon's success is also their biggest challenge, others want a piece of the pie. And sadly this is why downtown Main Street now sells boutique items
instead of functional stuff. I grew up standing over the floor heater grate in front of the counter in an ancient wooden hardware store in my little home town, on a cold day
I just loved that grate. Now here was a positive shopping experience!
My father could go get what he needed, he often just made the rounds on Saturday morning to say hello, since the owners were neighbors.
You supported your neighbors whenever possible.
My how times have changed.
I buy US made and locally when I can.
But now you usually can't and pretty sure this is same all over.
cheap 3D replicator printers are coming and soon we can make some of this stuff ourselves...:thumbsup:
Now that's what I call local.
