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Not sure if you actually read this article. It’s excellent, especially its narrative stitched together with first-person, you-are-there, accounts. Rather timel
by sveng 7y ago
Not sure if you actually read this article. It’s excellent, especially its narrative stitched together with first-person, you-are-there, accounts.
Rather timely also since Amazon announced this week that it’s working on one day deliveries for Prime customers.
And those in the know will tell you that same-day (even 2-4 hours!) deliveries are on the roadmap for Prime customers in major metro areas.
- enlyth 7y agoWe already get 2 hour delivery in London with Amazon Prime Now
- mcintyre1994 7y agoAnd one day delivery nationally with Prime.
- dbbk 7y agoYes, lots of countries have long had next-day and same-day delivery, next-day is just new to the US.
- miltech 7y agoPrime Now has been around for quite some time in quite a few locales in the US. (est. 2014)
- kristianc 7y ago> Not sure if you actually read this article. Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- corobo 7y agoIs that a new announcement? If I order before (I think) 8pm I'll almost definitely get the order next day. In the UK if that helps any, Midlands
- armadsen 7y agoNew for the entire US (some areas/cities already had it). Not sure about this article, but another article about the announcement that I read mentions that the UK has already had free one day delivery for a while.
- corobo 7y agoAh gotcha. Yeah it'd make sense that the US has had a harder time rolling it out, being that the entirety of the UK can fit into many of the states! I'm not used to us getting things before the US I guess :)
- Jtsummers 7y agoI think they're extending that. The one day service has been available in some areas already depending on proximity to their distribution centers.
- gambiting 7y agoIn the UK I find that most stuff can be ordered as late as 11pm for guaranteed next day delivery. Some cities get the same day delivery too(without using Prime Now).
- save_ferris 7y agoWhat shocked me was that after I let my Prime membership expire and ordered something to be shipped, I got the usual 7-10 business day ETA on my package. The package came the next day, and no extra cost to me. I've made two other orders since then, and they both arrived next day despite the order confirmation telling me 7-10 days. I'm sure that there's some shipping infrastructure slack that allows them to do this, but I find it super strange now that I get prompted to pay an extra $10 for next-day shipping only to get it anyway.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoMeanwhile, I pay for prime and experience extremely unreliable shipping.
- praneshp 7y agoIf you don't normalize for where you live I think it's an apples to oranges comparison.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoThat's pretty much our points. Shipping speed is mostly about factors other than Prime membership.
- mikeash 7y agoI’ve never had Prime and often get fast service anyway like you describe. It’s not totally consistent, though. I assume their logistics are so good that they can usually fulfill an order quickly at no extra cost because they have it in a nearby warehouse, but sometimes you hit cases where the closest item is still on the other side of the country. In that case, Prime would get you fast shipping and the free, slow shipping won’t.
- max76 7y ago> Rather timely also since Amazon announced this week that it’s working on one day deliveries for Prime customers. > And those in the know will tell you that same-day (even 2-4 hours!) deliveries are on the roadmap for Prime customers in major metro areas. In Seattle we already have next day and same day shipping for a lot of merchandise. It drastically reduces the amount of time I spend in physical retailers.