The item will be pulled from the nearest point where it is warehoused (or given to the carrier by the seller if it is not something warehoused by amazon.) If it is warehoused in a fulfillment center, it will be packaged up by associates there and processed into a truck where it will go to either a sortation center then delivery center or directly to a delivery center or carrier. If it goes to a carrier it gets delivered by them. Who the fuck knows how that works. If it goes to a Delivery Center, it will be inducted, sortated via the conveyor at the DC, stowed into a tote or overflow stack by a stower at the end of the conveyor, then be picked to a cart and the cart staged in a staging location. The driver will get the carts with their totes and overflow from the staging location to their van where they load everything into their van. They drive out to their route area and eventually should drop the package on your porch. Answer from victorkm on reddit.com
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Amazon
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How does your Amazon order get to your doorstep? Watch the journey of a package
Once the aircraft lands at a destination, the package is off to its next step in its journey: a sort center. Sort centers receive packages from Amazon Air hubs and gateways, as well as fulfillment centers, and are sorted by ZIP code before being ...
Published   April 26, 2024
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PIRS Capital
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The Amazon Shipping Process: Everything Sellers Should Know About Amazon Delivery
August 24, 2022 - This is referred to as order processing. 4 The next step is to dispatch the shipment. The seller will take the buyer’s shipment to the shipping company specified in the order. 5 After an order has been fulfilled and sent out, the seller on Amazon can relax and wait for feedback. The rest will be handled by the mail carriers.
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Quora
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How does Amazon manage to do same day delivery (or even next day delivery)? Does the delivery driver purchase the item at a local store, package it, and deliver it? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): With next day deliveries, the bits are packaged, and the package is taken overnight from a warehouse to a local depot, where the delivery men pick up a large number of parcels, then deliver them in optimum order to minimise driving. I live near Nottingham, I believe from tracking...
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Amazon
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I work at an Amazon fulfillment center in Texas. Here’s an inside look at how we fulfill your orders.
April 26, 2023 - Cedric Harris, a 26-year-old area ... Liftoff program. ... The first step is called “Inbound.” This is where products from manufacturers and sellers arrive at our fulfillment center....
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Reddit
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r/AmazonDSPDrivers on Reddit: How Does Amazon's Shipping Process Go?
March 11, 2024 -

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone knows the process how things go once I place my order.

I assume someone in a warehouse packages the order, and then someone else puts it in the carrier, and lastly someone delivers it. Is that about right, or are there a bunch of other steps along the way?

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Emplicit
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The Amazon Shipping Process: Everything Sellers Should Know - Emplicit
August 8, 2023 - The customer’s order will move to the shipping process through Amazon’s fulfillment center unless seller-fulfilled. This shipping process includes: Boxing it up. Labeling it. Sending tracking information to the carrier. Here’s How The Shipping Process Works Step By Step For Amazon Sellers
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Amazon
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General Shipping Information - Amazon Customer Service
Shop By Interest · Home Improvement · Computers · Help & Customer Service · Find more solutions · Shipping and Delivery › · Fulfilled by Amazon · About Estimated Delivery Windows · Deliveries from Amazon Logistics · About Deliveries Shipped with Amazon ·
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Amazon
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Inside look at freight logistics and shipping mile stages - Amazon Freight Services
April 1, 2025 - In the last mile delivery stage, goods are sorted at a fulfillment facility and loaded onto delivery vehicles for dispatch to your end customer. These last mile vehicles, like Amazon’s delivery vans , follow specific routes to ensure speed and efficiency.
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Amazon
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Shipping and Delivery - Amazon Customer Service
Learn how to check the status of your order and find more information about late deliveries or undeliverable orders.
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Supply Chain Today
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How Amazon Delivery Works. -
November 19, 2023 - Here’s a simplified overview of how it works: When you place an order on Amazon, it is sent to one of their fulfillment centers. The order is then picked and packed by a fulfillment associate and prepared for shipping.
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Business Insider
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The supply-chain mapped out: How an Amazon package travels from the factory to your front door
December 20, 2021 - Last year, Amazon delivered a record-breaking 1.5 billion holiday packages. Insider mapped out one shipping route the famous "Amazon coat" could take from China to your door. How Amazon's Orolay coat goes from factory to doorstep. Shayanne Gal/Insider · This is not the exact route all Amazon packages take and warehouse processes vary.
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Sellercloud
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How Many Steps Are There Until Your Amazon Order Reaches Your Door? | Sellercloud
May 9, 2025 - When Amazon informs you that a dissatisfied customer wants to exchange or return an item, you need to have the infrastructure in place to accept and process these requests. From the customer’s perspective, an order on Amazon is astoundingly simple. Items are selected, checkout is completed, and the package arrives at their door. As an Amazon seller, the steps outlined above must all be executed without a hitch to ensure that customers can enjoy and rely on that simplicity.
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Reddit
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r/amazonprime on Reddit: So how DOES Amazon Prime Shipping work?
March 5, 2025 -

Thought we might collect up some insights into how AMZN does this…

We all know that Amazon Prime is supposed to come with ‘one to two day shipping speed, after it ships’. Seems pretty clear….. takes a bit for them to find the item, they put it in a box and ship it a while later- takes one or two days on the road.

And we know that 98% of the time that is NOT how it works…

Sure, on occasion, I will get a UPS ‘next day saver’ shipment from across the USA. Or I will see an Amazon tracking data that shows it is shipping via air from across the country…

But MOST of the time, their algorithm is doing one of three things:

  1. Item is in a local distribution hub- item ships in one day, order by midnight, they transfer it to the local logistics hub at 3AM, and by 1030 it is out for delivery.

  2. Item is in a SEMI local hub- they truck it to the local hub, then it goes out the next day. Here in two days.

  3. Item is far away- it is then shipped via ground transport as a bulk package (no tracking) to my local hub. It shows as not shipped, the order is just sitting- when in actual fact it WAS shipped but takes a week across the USA. Then, after a week, it magically ‘shipped’ and shows up next day.

It is my belief that amazon ‘covers up’ when items really ship… there are two time components to order fulfillment: getting it into a box and out the door AND then the actual shipment. The ‘trick’ of prime is ‘stealing’ a few days from the order processing component and using that for transporting the package- but not letting customers know, so they get their ‘two day shipping speed’

Oh, one marvel: As you are BROWSING- not once you put it in a cart, and not after you pay…but just as you are browsing, the algorithm knows all this an can know how and when they will get that item to you.

Anyway, they can still suck- but insights into how that fulfil orders can explain what we see on our ends…..

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Amazon Flex
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How Delivering Packages With Amazon Flex Works
Learn more about how Amazon Flex works and what it takes to start delivering packages for Amazon Flex today.
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Amazon
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How to pack and ship ecommerce orders - Sell on Amazon
May 18, 2024 - Use our step-by-step guide to learn the basics of ecommerce shipping and explore options for shipping products to Amazon customers.
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Teikametrics
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Amazon Supply Chain - How Does It Work? - Teikametrics
September 19, 2025 - The term Amazon supply chain essentially refers to Amazon’s entire process from product warehousing to inventory management, pricing, delivery, and more. Amazon has optimized each of these elements to ensure that everything is working smoothly and efficiently. With third-party sellers being responsible for 55% of all sales made on Amazon, Amazon offers two fulfillment options to sellers – FBA and FBM. FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) – With this option, Amazon will take care of all logistics and customer support.
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Amazon
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How to get your Amazon purchase delivered in just hours with Same-Day Delivery
June 30, 2023 - You can also look for "FREE Delivery Today" next to the product name as you shop across all of Amazon. If the item is eligible for Same-Day Delivery, you should see an order within countdown timer telling you how much time you have to place the order in order to receive it the same day. Your order summary will show the estimated delivery time. For Prime members, Same-Day Delivery is free for orders over $25 in most cities. If your order doesn’t meet the minimum, you can still choose Same-Day Delivery for a $2.99 fee.