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[Grumpycat]

I always wondered how they delivered Amazon trucks. Think they got free next day shipping, on that?

Prime shipping has been averaging 5 days since the COVID insanity.

 

[WinterDeere]

Prime shipping has been averaging 5 days since the COVID insanity.

Wow, that's terrible. Much better here. I see more and more items with available "early AM Tomorrow" delivery options, like order at 10pm and it's on your doorstep at 5am, but they often want $2.99 for that service. The free shipping items included with Prime are never more than 2 days here, and an increasing number of items (35%?) are now 1-day.

There are some third-party seller items marked "Free shipping to Prime members", with huge margins on their shipping time, like up to 10 days in some cases. But those are more the exception.

 

[Eagle1]

Wow, that's terrible. Much better here. I see more and more items with available "early AM Tomorrow" delivery options, like order at 10pm and it's on your doorstep at 5am, but they often want $2.99 for that service. The free shipping items included with Prime are never more than 2 days here, and an increasing number of items (35%?) are now 1-day.

There are some third-party seller items marked "Free shipping to Prime members", with huge margins on their shipping time, like up to 10 days in some cases. But those are more the exception.

You must get Amazon deliveries, just USPS for us hillbillies. Amazon does drop it at the local post office in Cuba so it does avoid the 5-30 day delay in KC.

 

[John0829]

Prime shipping has been averaging 5 days since the COVID insanity.

I wish! With Prime shipping we used to get orders in the advertised 2-3 days but now if we get it in a week and a half we consider it lucky.

 

[BigBlue1]

Prime shipping has been averaging 5 days since the COVID insanity.

Not my experience. Amazon has been improving and improving for me. Now getting a bunch of stuff next day, which was unheard of 5 years ago. I live about an hour outside a major metro area and never before were we close enough for that fast of delivery.

 

[WinterDeere]

Same here. I'm an hour north of center city Philadelphia, and really only 20 minutes north of the northern sprawl of dense 'burbs. The main shipping center for much of the greater area is maybe only 40 minutes north of me, and those trucks almost have to pass my house on their way south to the more densely-packed northern suburbs of Philadelphia.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

One reason we get Amazon deliveries (which used to be quick) in a week or so these days is that the 2-day shipping applies only to the actual shipping.

When it takes Amazon several days to get around to shipping an order, well, it's still 2-day shipping, but takes over a week to receive.

 

[BigBlue1]

One reason we get Amazon deliveries (which used to be quick) in a week or so these days is that the 2-day shipping applies only to the actual shipping.

When it takes Amazon several days to get around to shipping an order, well, it's still 2-day shipping, but takes over a week to receive.

Are you ordering Prime-eligible items or sold/shipped from 3rd parties? What you describe is very rare in my experience. But I mostly choose things that are listed as 'Prime'.

 

[John0829]

That is the one thing I ALWAYS do is check the box for Prime items. Have been bite by picking 3rd party sellers to many times. Last item I bought from a 3rd party took a month to get here, just glad it was not something I needed or wanted quickly, within reason that is. I have ordered from overseas and gotten things more quickly.

 

[California]

Wow, that's terrible. Much better here. I see more and more items with available "early AM Tomorrow" delivery options, like order at 10pm and it's on your doorstep at 5am, but they often want $2.99 for that service. The free shipping items included with Prime are never more than 2 days here, and an increasing number of items (35%?) are now 1-day.

That's my experience at home where the Amazon trucks are dispatched out of a warehouse near Sacramento airport. Lots of stuff arrives next day. Things that must have been stored elsewhere in the Amazon system, generally 1-2 days additional.

Ranch, same experience as Eagle1. Amazon delivers everything to the local post office for USPS delivery next day.

 

[WinterDeere]

Ranch, same experience as Eagle1. Amazon delivers everything to the local post office for USPS delivery next day.

There have been a few mentions on this forum of shuttering the USPS, but this is really where they have made themselves indispensable. Not specifically Amazon deliveries, but in being the "last mile" delivery service for so many areas that those operating for-profit just can't touch.

 

[Eagle1]

There have been a few mentions on this forum of shuttering the USPS, but this is really where they have made themselves indispensable. Not specifically Amazon deliveries, but in being the "last mile" delivery service for so many areas that those operating for-profit just can't touch.

I see FedEx, UPS and USPS almost daily

 

[WinterDeere]

I see FedEx, UPS and USPS almost daily

Okay... but I din't mean you, specifically.

 

[Eagle1]

Okay... but I din't mean you, specifically.

I'm pretty sure they deliver to any street address just as well as USPS. They don't do PO boxes (I could be wrong) . Heck UPS was delivering when USPS and FEDEX said the roads were bad.
I just expect they want more than USPS to deliver Amazon Prime

 

[LouNY]

I seldom see Amazon packages coming from USPS, very often UPS parcels are "last miles" by USPS. In my area we see USPS, UPS, Fed Ex and Amazon (once in awhile their truck but more often by their "casual" drivers using personal vehicles) often at extreme times very early or vary late.

 

[Topzide]

The Amazon "causal drivers" are the managers fixing the problem cause due to the main driver not doing his/her job! Had this happened many times.

 

[LouNY]

The Amazon "causal drivers" are the managers fixing the problem cause due to the main driver not doing his/her job! Had this happened many times.

Around here they hire many "casual" drivers that will deliver a few packages on a desired area. My wifes grandson is driving for Amazon, their truck and he gets routed to the same basic area most days. From what he says the casuals get the longer routes with few packages.

 

[Grumpycat]

There are some third-party seller items marked "Free shipping to Prime members", with huge margins on their shipping time, like up to 10 days in some cases. But those are more the exception.

Ordered something on 12/18 for which the latest delivery is "estimated" to be tomorrow 1/21. Then again every week I get an email pushing it out another week.

 

[Dftodd]

Wow, that's terrible. Much better here. I see more and more items with available "early AM Tomorrow" delivery options, like order at 10pm and it's on your doorstep at 5am, but they often want $2.99 for that service. The free shipping items included with Prime are never more than 2 days here, and an increasing number of items (35%?) are now 1-day.

There are some third-party seller items marked "Free shipping to Prime members", with huge margins on their shipping time, like up to 10 days in some cases. But those are more the exception.

We have two Amazon fulfilment centers as well as an Amazon large freight depot in the Little Rock area.

Quite often it's here next day depending on the item.

My pallet forks were here in 3 days. Same with a shed I ordered.

Other things have taken a month to get here

 

[BravoXray]

I think we need a separate Amazon thread...