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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by ThePhysicist on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:27AM (#23963760)
That's rather harsh. The DHL "PRIO" sevice was explicitly created for Amazon and later opened to other larger customers like Zalando, but it's nothing I can buy as a private person or even small online retailer. I think your 95 % next day delivery rate is actually the value that DHL promises to PRIO customers (https://www.dhl.de/content/dam/images/pdf/GK/dhl-paket-prio-... - they mention up to 97%), as regular parcels don't have a guaranteed delivery time.

So to recap, DHL has created a specific service that it offered exclusively to Amazon (and now a few other retail giants) which prioritizes their packages. I can't buy that service as a regular Joe or small retailer, so my stuff gets deprioritized as compared to Amazon. In my personal experience I have witnessed that many times when sending or receiving packages, as my stuff from Amazon always arrives on time while my own packages take days or (in rare cases) even weeks to get delivered.

What exactly is misleading about that?

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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by johncolanduoni on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:08AM (#23963932)
My German is pretty rusty but it appears you can buy PRIO stamps, online with PayPal no less: https://www.deutschepost.de/de/p/prio.html.
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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by detaro on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:10AM (#23963935)
That's Deutsche Post letters, not DHL packages.

DHL Prio is limited to a a few source distribution centers and larger customers.

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