Re:We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
by bunderbunder on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:36AM
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I'd happily take your 3 days for stuff to arrive via postal service, because our postal carriers bring packages up to the door, ring the bell, and leave them in an inconspicuous location if nobody answers.
Whereas the Amazon delivery people that are so instrumental to my packages typically arriving overnight will just leave it on the sidewalk out in front of the house and then, apparently, encourage the neighborhood kids to play soccer with it.
Re:We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
by calgoo on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:28AM
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For me it has been the opposite: I have next day or same day delivery here now. A lot of time when amazon says 2 days, i get the package the next day.
It might have to do with living in Barcelona and amazon having their own delivery people here. They even have a summer offer where you can order cold beer and have it delivered to you in less then 2 hours.
Re:We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
by mdrzn on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:37AM
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Same experience here in a relatively small city in Italy, most "2 days shipping" arrive the next day, and Prime is just 3€ a month (so wayyyy cheaper than in the USA).
It's a hard to beat service.
Re:We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
by sean-duffy on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:02AM
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Same here in the UK. There's only been one or two times when they've messed up and a next day prime delivery has taken an extra day.
At first, 2 days, every time. It was great and extremely reliable.
Now? I'm lucky to get an estimated 2 day delivery. It's almost always 3 days. Why? They deliver it to the post office now, about a mile away. Half the time it gets there too late for the USPS truck to deliver it on that day. It is so frustrating.
Couple that with price increases, Twitch prime adding ads, counterfeit products, confusing product pages, fake reviews...Amazon is worse than ever.