How does amazon keep up with their 2 day delivery standard?
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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…..
I’ve been working for 4 weeks almost complete with my nursery routes and they’re now saying I’m an hour behind with my delivery rate. With how annoying the delivery app is and organizing the packages I might take an extra few minutes in between stops.
Anybody have advice for doing faster stops?
Anybody else seeing that everything they try to order is arriving in 6-7 days now instead of 2 days. I saw a banner that they have disrupted transit because of storms but there isn't a huge storm right now and for the last 2-3 weeks its been showing items as arriving a week from now.
We're paying for prime for this?
I’m ordering an ergonomic mouse because I’m in pain, but I can never get myself to select the quickest shipping option because I’m imagining the burden it might put on Amazon workers. Does choosing the later deliver time or date actually do any good for anyone other than Amazon’s bottom line?
I'm currently residing in France, I wonder how long do you wait to receive your order within your country. I've been told it takes 2 days for the item to arrive, but now Amazon has been purposely delaying it to make people register for prime? Not sure.
I'm talking about their "Prime" service - physically how do they get the products to me so quickly? and I guess a followup question, how come other companies cant/dont?
There is a deadline each evening for products to be ordered next day. Then an hour or so after the deadline, the UPS or Fed Ex guy picks those packages up on his/her way back to their center. They are then put on an airplane and flown overnight to the destination
-UPS employee
Just a heads up. Prime is free 2 day shipping. Next day delivery is an extra charge.
They have huge wearhouses that are very efficient in getting out orders rapidly because they have everything in the wearhouse already. That's why not everything on amazon is offered as prime, because sometimes it is individual people that are selling the items using amazon as a storefront. They package it and ship it using one of multiple companies. Now how does UPS and FedEx deliver one day things from across the country, that question I don't have the answer to.
I’m new to using Amazon and was wondering if it’s normal for my items not to have shipped after two days. Could the delays be due to Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
I cancelled Prime about a year ago. Now I only use it to buy outer record sleeves for my business. Every time I order sleeves they try to get me to resubscribe to get faster free shipping, but it's a scam. Yesterday, the 13th, I ordered $50 worth of sleeves and it said I could pay $6.99 for shipping and get them the 16th, or pay nothing (because my order was over $35) and get them the 18th or resubscribe and get them the 16th. I chose paying nothing and they're out for delivery today, the 14th.
Has Prime delivery time changed from 2-3 days to 5-7? Even items coming from one of the local warehouses wait 5-7 days before they deliver (the same day the item is shipped).
Amazon managed to deliver a pair of earbuds to my doorstep in less than 24 hours, meanwhile AusPost takes days if not weeks to pretend like they knocked (they didn't, I waited by the door the whole time) and have me drive to a post office in a different suburb the day after their 'attempted' delivery.