What's mildly irritating you today?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Amazon ships about 3,300,000 boxes per day. Your order will be shipped in the order in which it's received(depending on how it fits efficiently into the pick/ship system), however Amazon has made a contract/commitment to the Prime members which must be honored first.

In other words, back of the bus, boy.

I don't do a lot of shopping, but much of what I do buy comes from/through Amazon. Even so, I've avoided Prime because it annoys me about as much as Disney World's system of if you pay more you can skip to the head of the line. Capitalism was never meant to be fair. sigh

[glatt]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Your order will be shipped in the order in which it's received(depending on how it fits efficiently into the pick/ship system), however Amazon has made a contract/commitment to the Prime members which must be honored first.

This doesn't really make sense.

Using the Disney example, I got in line with my order. And others got in line behind me with theirs. And you're saying we proceed in order, but that Prime gets to go first. Which means we don't go in order.

What I'm saying is that there is one line. Prime members get their items and get in line. And non members get shuffled off to the side into a waiting room for a coupe days and then are released to go get in line.

Also, while I'm bitching about Amazon, "subscribe and save" sucks now. I don't know if they have removed items from subscribe and save for non Prime members or if they are doing it across the board for everyone. There used to be a real convenience having stuff shipped on a regular basis so we didn't have to keep track of it and never ran out. But they keep dropping various items, so we have to go to the store anyway to get stuff. It's gotten to the point where we are cancelling the few remaining items they carry because it's saving us no time. That doesn't make sense to me. I thought Amazon was trying to get us to go to them for all our shopping need.

[xoxoxoBruce]

What I'm saying is that there is one line. Prime members get their items and get in line. And non members get shuffled off to the side into a waiting room for a coupe days and then are released to go get in line.

Shuffled off to the side a couple days? Where did you get that from? They're shipping an average of about 3.3 million packages a day, every day, 365, and that's not an up to date number. Prime goes first, then the people who ordered two days ago, then the people that ordered yesterday, next you and the rest of the people that ordered today. Nobody gets put on hold unless there's a problem, because that fucks the efficiency. Bezos is about efficiency above all else.

You can't seriously expect the largest retailer in the world to drop everything while they find, pick, box and ship your handle? OK everyone, non-prime glatt's handle has shipped, back to the normal routine.
Capitalism, Takin' what they're givin' 'cause you're workin' for a livin'... pay up or shut up.

[Lamplighter]

Amazon gave us a book's Pre-Publication price ($10.50) + shipping ($5.40).
A week later we sold our house and moved to a new address about 5.5 miles away.
I changed our shipping address before the Publication Date.
Along comes the Publication Date and Amazon ships... to our old address.

Pkg tracking shows carrier attempted delivery, but USPS already has our Mail-Forwarding Notice.
Pkg goes into Never-Never Land
We contact Amazon... who points finger at USPS
But Amazon ships another copy - overnight delivery - no charge.


Next day 1st book arrives after 10-day side-trip of PDX->Seattle-PDX, but now with $5.80 Postage Due.
Following day, the Postman delivers the 2nd copy, coming via Philadelphia, Sacramento, and PDX.

All this for a $10.50 book

I now have 2 copies to sell on eBay
... Buyer pays shipping - delivery not guaranteed !

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[xoxoxoBruce]

The post office is not good at contingencies. Since they've gotten into this "last mile" system, with the retailer or carrier dumping your package at the nearest major postal hub, it's added at least two days delay in shipping. Like 1.5 days from South Carolina to Philly Post Office and 6 days 9 miles to me. But that's better than fedex, 2 days from CA to the fedex depot in Exton, PA and 10 days for the 15 miles to me. After all that they dumped it in the snow at the end of the driveway. I love UPS.