[PaulHoule]

Got themselves to blame.

They gave up on prime deliveries arriving in two days sometime last year and they raised the price of Prime. Maybe they think I'm going to stay subscribed to Prime out of inertia and keep buying stuff from AMZN out of inertia but it isn't so.

I'm not going to accept any excuse about why AMZN can't do 2 day delivery anymore because every other online retailer (Walmart, Target, BestBuy, Adorama, Office Depot) sees fast shipping as a way to impress me. Even Ebay orders from Japan get to me faster than AMZN orders.

It adds insult to injury that, at about this time, AMZN announced they'd have same day and 1-day delivery to a few anointed urban areas. Like where my congressman lives in Washington, DC and where people who work in the media in New York and Los Angeles live.

They'll be writing about this one in business school case studies for a long time.

[culopatin]

I don’t know where you are but most of my deliveries are next day, sometimes same day, the rest are indeed 2 days. Not defending Amazon just saying that it’s not the same across the board.

Edit: nvm didn’t read the last part. But I don’t live in a super big urban area either, weird

[ge96]

I still think it's amazing, buy a bunch of random sh* and it arrives in your locker (in my case). Yeah I generally get 2 days too. Recently noticed these little yellow/green stickers, in particular on a delayed set.

[mrtranscendence]

> It adds insult to injury that, at about this time, AMZN announced they'd have same day and 1-day delivery to a few anointed urban areas.

For what it's worth, I live in a suburb of Cincinnati (thirty minutes from downtown) and I have 1-day delivery. I have to meet a $25 minimum or else pay $3, but the option is there. It feels strange to me that thirty minutes outside urban Cincinnati would be an "anointed urban area".

[Gortal278]

Where do you live? (Just curious)