Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers

Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by mediaman on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:36PM (#23967390)

I see a number of reports regarding slow delivery times from Amazon.

My personal experience is the opposite: times were heavily impacted peak-COVID, but now are returning to the very fast times, and are often same-day (!) or next-day delivery.

The only times I see times being pushed back now is when they ship by UPS via a program where UPS takes it from Amazon and gives it to the USPS for last-mile. These can take 4-5 days.

But if Amazon's delivery drivers are handling it, which is most of the time for me, it's very fast.

This isn't meant to invalidate others' experiences. But I wonder what the difference is. My experience is in an urban area.

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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by Wohlf on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:35PM (#23968004)

This has been my experience as well. Also, anything coming from the nearest distribution center always arrives on time, but anything else is a crapshoot.

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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:08PM (#23968890)

We're the polar opposite from you: Amazon deliveries here never arrive in less than 3 days, before covid or after (rural New Mexico). The pandemic seems to have had essentially no impact on delivery times here. It was "sort of fast/sort of slow" (depending on your baseline) before and it's the same now.

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