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A comment on Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx. Parent comment

Re:Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx by nostrebored on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:14PM (#12601777)
Then enjoy the fact that literally no mailing provider actually guarantees delivery date.

At least Amazon is more than willing to work with you to figure out how they can make your experience more palatable.

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Re:Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx by Symbiote on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:26PM (#12601846)
Royal Mail offer a guaranteed next day delivery service [1]

UPS in the USA do [2]

[1] http://www.royalmail.com/personal/uk-delivery/special-delive...

[2] https://www.ups.com/content/us/en/shipping/time/service/next...

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Re:Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx by nostrebored on Thursday September 29, 2016 @11:13AM (#12605894)
"The guarantee does not apply when late delivery results ... from events beyond our control ... or the exercise of any lien in accordance with our Terms and Conditions of Carriage."

If you can void your guarantee based on "forces outside your control" in something like shipping, where you're at the mercy of traffic, weather conditions, and human error, it's not really a guarantee.

The UK is a substantially easier country to ship in logistically than the US. I don't doubt that Royal Mail's guaranteed delivery works.

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