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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by nicoburns on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:35AM (#17566650)
> vs. Amazon's "two day shipping" that regularly turned into three or four days

I find this experience interesting. Here in the UK amazon offers next day delivery (and in same cases, same day delivery), and often delivers next day even when they don't claim they will.

I have had problems with counterfeits though.

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by kop316 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:41AM (#17566720)
From observing comments here, it seems to be regional and dependent on the carrier. In my experience it has been the USPS (though I am sure people in other regions will say UPPS is fine, but UPS is bad, or FedEx is bad). When I saw that Amazon was shipping via USPS, I automatically knew not to bother to check for it until at least the third day of the "two day" shipping. What was even more annoying is half the time it got marked as "delivered". I tried a couple of times to complain to Amazon, but that got me to no where.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by twothamendment on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:59PM (#17570206)
I guess it depends on where you are. UPS is awesome where I am. They are always on time and have even called me to come meet them when they couldn't get up my road in the winter.

FedEx is hit and miss, depends on the contractor. One just stuffed a package in my mail box and marked it as delivered on my "Front Porch". My mail box is a mile away. Close, but no.

Amazon shipping - I hope it never expands to my area.

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by desireco42 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:25AM (#17567181)
Same thing here. It doesn't seem to be Amazon as much as USPS thing. It is a game of pretend. I had once UPS guy do this few times, but I called Amazon and then UPS to complain.

In reality, most of the time I don't care when exactly it will arrive, but for that one thing I do, it always is day late :).

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by Milner08 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:50AM (#17566799)
Interesting in the UK they have their own courier who tend to be better than the rest, until it goes wrong that is. Then its a pain in the arse.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by ciaranm on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:35PM (#17567953)
I find amazon's own courier is by far and away the most likely to deliver damaged goods, FWIW (Central/East London)
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by dvlsg on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:51PM (#17568150)
I've had the same experience in the US. They also seem to be the most likely to miss the expected delivery date.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by reaperducer on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:27AM (#17567198)
Here in the UK amazon offers next day delivery (and in same cases, same day delivery), and often delivers next day even when they don't claim they will.

The U.S. has next day and same-day delivery from Amazon, as well. It also has two-hour delivery in most cities.

But not every item is available in every delivery window. And not all delivery windows are available in all locations.

One of the advantages of living in a small country like the U.K. is that it's much easier to cover the whole territory. (U.S. is 40x larger than U.K., with 1/8th the density.)

Even though it's habitual for euro-HNers to compare themselves to the U.S., it's more often than not meaningless.

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:46AM (#17566770)
I reliably get stuff in 2 days, but I live near Boston.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by blakes on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:16PM (#17567734)
All depends on how close to a warehouse you are. I'm in Seattle and most items I order from Amazon are free same day shipping.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by simias on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:39AM (#17566701)
Same experience with amazon.fr on all counts.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by cloudblockchain on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:48AM (#17566790)
There are states in India that are bigger than UK. USA is 3 times as large as India.