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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by ericmay on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:38AM (#25237755)
It's not like Amazon (or others) dispatch one truck with one item per order. They will batch these to save cost, and I have to imagine it's more carbon friendly than having an individual car from every household making trips, parking in parking lots, etc. etc.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by untog on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:41AM (#25237781)
I’m consistently surprised by how bad Amazon is at this. Admittedly this might be because I’m in NYC and there are multiple distribution centers but even when I specifically choose to have things bundled up and delivered at once on my “Prime Day” (or whatever they call it) they still deliver separately on different days.

Not the end of the world but it does annoy me. I’ve been doing a bunch of shopping at Target since the pandemic too, to balance out reliance on Amazon. They’re much better at delivering items together on the day they originally state.

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mynameishere on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:16AM (#25238013)
Try ordering online from Walmart. You might order five items and get four packages in four days. Amazon used to be like this 15+ years ago.