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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by ikeboy on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:36PM (#21485889)
There's numbers for Amazon logistics in the article.

More to the point, Amazon themselves use UPS/Fedex under the hood in addition to their own system. But they hold sellers responsible for using UPS/Fedex if it's late only when not using FBA.

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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by whack on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:02PM (#21486127)
> fewer than 25% arrived within two days; more than half arrived in about three days and more than 15% arrived in four days

Those numbers are for delivery speed. Not percentage of deliveries that are late relative to the date promised to customers when they made the purchase

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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by wUabkSG6L5Bfa5 on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:49PM (#21486014)
Considering that it takes Amazon-level resources to get UPS/FedEx to track down errant shipments and honor claims, this seems like a fine idea at first glance.
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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by amluto on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:59PM (#21486102)
In my personal experience, “Amazon-level logistics” is just about the least reliable way to get anything to show up on time.
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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by colejohnson66 on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:19PM (#21486913)
In my experience, it’s the opposite. I’ve had hundreds of packages delivered by AMZL, and only one was late.
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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by Semaphor on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:55PM (#21487247)
Here in Germany they are late about 30% of the time for me but at least that means I get yet another month of free prime.
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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by gnopgnip on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:55PM (#21487254)
If a delivery is late it is often because of how it is packaged, and not purely on the delivery service
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