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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by underbluewaters on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:47PM (#16188146)
They advertise 3-7 business days. For the past 3 months it's been more like ~8-11 business days. Nobody here has unrealistic expectations.

USPS would be much faster if they just dropped it in the mail within a couple days. It would also cost less than fedex overnighting items after waiting 2 weeks.

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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by lutorm on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:49PM (#16188636)
Indeed. It's gotten to the point that if I want something fast, I'll actually avoid Amazon and instead find some merchant who will ship the item USPS Priority Mail which is very reasonably priced and reliably arrives in 3 days.

The biggest problem are merchants that for some reason insist that they can only use UPS/Fedex, which is a complete ripoff to Hawaii. I don't understand how they get any business for their "ground" service here, given that it's usually about the same price as 2-day air but takes a week.

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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by EpicEng on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:49PM (#16188161)
Well I'm with you there. I assumed you were talking about 2-day delivery, my mistake.
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