If you happen to live near a UPS store or Whole Foods, sure, but Amazon has to be doing a lot of business shipping to people in remote areas.

as one of those people, it sticks to drove 30m one way to get to a ups store. I already avoid Amazon because returning items is such a hassle, and about 1/3 items has to be returned because damage, false advertising (getting a product other than what was listed/depicted), or wrong measurements listed on product description or any of the other many issues. most products people won't do pickup at my house already, ups stores are a pain. I hate the whole Amazon return ecosystem.

I mean this could be solved by just adding an exception for those very rural not near a UPS, Prime, Wholefoods, Kohls... if delivery location > X minutes' drive from a free return spot, offer free return pickups