Amazon shipping

[tops]

Tuesday at about 8:30 PM I ordered 2 screw shackles from Amazon. Wednesday at 3:00 PM they were on my porch. This is an example of my experience ever time I've ordered from Amazon.
If Amazon doesn't have any problems shipping and procuring goods why are other companies having problems?
It leads me too believe that Amazon needs too expand into the ammo and fuel business. Larry

 

[Targets Guy]

Methinks your sample size is too small. Amazon is having shipping problems and has since Covid. If a Prime member they promise two day shipping; that no longer occurs as often as it used to. But they still beat having to deal with the crowds in the stores.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Your lucky. In April, my daughter who is an Amazon Prime member, paid extra to expedite an in-stock package to me. After nine days she canceled it because I was leaving town.

 

[Neversink n Klapperthal]

depends what you order. Books take sometimes weeks. Most items around a week

 

[JcMack]

If they've got it stocked in a warehouse close to your delivery is pretty quick. If it comes by way of another warehouse or vender it usually comes in promised time. They moved the warehouse that services my neighborhood from 6 miles away to a new warehouse in Chicago. Deliveries used to be great but are getting sketchy now and as late as 10pm..

 

[smithra_66]

Amazon has a monstrous, and ever-improving logistics operation that they have taken largely in-house.

No other online retailer on Earth has as many resources.

Quite simple.

 

[Onomea]

It does depend on what the item you're ordering is, but overall very quick in my experience.

 

[UncleEd]

Virtually everything I've ordered
over the last four or five years
has been on time. When late, no
more than a day, day and a half.

When delivery has taken more than
a few days or week, it's because
the item was from a small, indy
supplier such as a used book
dealer linked to Amazon.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We have been Prime members for a very long time and have seldom had an issue. The few we had were all resolved to our satisfaction.

I'm sold.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

We have received 2 packages that were empty, a flash drive that was opened and the package taped closed, late deliveries, all on a "Prime" account, in the last year.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[TX-Dennis]

My last two amazon deliveries arrived a day early compared to the promised time at checkout. Yes, their shipping got slower at the height of the pandemic, but it seems to be getting back into line now.

 

[Kiwi cop]

Placed an order with Amazon on Thursday. Approximate delivery date was late May - mid June (freight to this part of the world is uncertain right now with few flights operating).

Shipping confirmation now advises delivery day 28th May. Guess we will see how it unfolds.

 

[wood714]

I think Amazon put in a distribution center in Daytona or Orlando. I've ordered stuff at 2:00 AM it got it later that same day several times.

Only times I've not got an order super fast was when they would have the post office deliver it.

 

[mmb617]

I hope I don't jinx myself by saying this buy I have no complaints about how fast Amazon delivers stuff to me. In fact sometimes I wonder how they pull it off.

 

[Jessie]

Thanks, but no. I don’t want Amazon any where near controlling my guns and ammo.

 

[tops]

Thanks, but no. I don’t want Amazon any where near controlling my guns and ammo.

Everything I've ordered has been delivered over night or at the most 2 days. If they were in charge ammo would be in every store and gasoline at every station. Larry

 

[Rolex28]

We have ordered stuff before 8Am and had it on the porch before noon....

 

[Kiwi cop]

Placed an order with Amazon on Thursday. Approximate delivery date was late May - mid June (freight to this part of the world is uncertain right now with few flights operating).

Shipping confirmation now advises delivery day 28th May. Guess we will see how it unfolds.

Surprise package in the mail box this morning. All the way down under from the U.S.A, my Amazon package.

A total of 8 days from ordering. Pretty good in this post covid world as the last package I had sent to me (garystl forwarded some items from Midway) took 5 1/2 weeks.

 

[walkin jack]

These days of on-line shopping we are having most of out stuff delivered these days. USPS, UPS,, FedEx, etc. But the most, and come to think of it, only one that is reliable and dependable is Amazon. The only time they don't deliver and deliver on time is snow storm or floods etc. No help for that.

Amazon prime is the best value for the dollar around in my book.

 

[Racer X]

I live in Seattle, about 7 miles from Amazon HQ. We are kind of spoiled.

In large cities in the US, they usually have a local "hub" if you will, that stock something like the 10,000 most common items, and those ship same day. This is separate from the big warehouse south of here, halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, and close to our airport. If your local also has Amazon Fresh grocery delivery, they stock quite a lot of common items as well. I have ordered USB flash drives, and a SSD laptop drive, and they arrived in about 90 minutes.

About 5 miles north of me is our old N Seattle massive Sears store. Talk is that it will be converted to a massive local hub warehouse to service N Seattle up to Everett. LOADS of parking, and a huge apartment complex is almost finished a block away, where workers could live. The Sears lot is massive, with plenty of room for incoming semis bringing in product, and still acres of room for a fleet of local all electric delivery vans.

Living here you can understand how Amazon does business. I have numerous friends high up at Amazon, including my partner's ex-husband.

All that being said, they have some NASTY business practices. Shiny candy coating, rotten apple inside.