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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by paxys on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:33PM (#20868922)
Amazon does have a feature where you can pick a day of the week to get all your packages. I don't believe people really use it though, because what's the incentive to wait longer?
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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by philipcristiano on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:38PM (#20869681)
When I tried this I was hoping there was some reduction in packaging associated. At least for me, it was just all the same boxes on the same day, instead of one big box, or something reusable/returnable like Fresh.
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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:02PM (#20869269)
That's for people who will be away from home and don't have a secure drop off for their packages.
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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:26PM (#20869561)
I'm fairly surprised Amazon doesn't incentivize its use outside of that use case, though. It's presumably cheaper for them to deliver a week's worth all at once, labor wise, and they already do $1 Kindle credits for slower shipping.
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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by alexashka on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:18PM (#20872345)
Right, so just add the incentive... Seems pretty straight forward.
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