Re:The world is facing a coffee deficit
by oasisbob on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:15PM
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This was highly regional. A year ago, Amazon's delivery broke down entirely where I was living. (Rural community about an hour outside Seattle.)
For several months, Amazon prime delivery was in the 7-10 days range. Seattle quickly recovered, but it wasn't until August or September 2020 that normal prime delivery times returned for us.
Re:The world is facing a coffee deficit
by nucleardog on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:56AM
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What carrier do they use for delivery out there?
Just taking a wild guess from "rural" that Amazon may be handing off the delivery (or at least the last mile) to USPS. The issues may have been more USPS-related than Amazon stock issues or anything.
Depends on what you are buying I suppose. I was burned by some purchases early on in the pandemic (most notably a printer, something that has been in short stock nearly everywhere) and haven't used amazon or any other online delivery service since.
At least with stores I know it is there in front of me, even if there are shortages.