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To be fair, packages have a hell of a lot further to travel to get across USA than here in England, so the longer shipping time would make sense. As to your pr
by corin_ 16y ago
To be fair, packages have a hell of a lot further to travel to get across USA than here in England, so the longer shipping time would make sense.
As to your predictions, I agree with it being US-only (if it happens), but I would expect good quality. I mean, it's not like they're some random company with no understanding of the web, they do have AWS' infrastructure to use.
- ErrantX 16y agoDo they not have state level distribution centers? If not, I see your point. I also just recalled; recently Amazon bought the British company LoveFilm (who also do streaming).. interesting timing.
- corin_ 16y agoI've no idea about their US distribution, but presumably in a country so much bigger than the UK, if they did have a massively larger distribution network, they would also have to charge more for the service. Maybe they opted for a slightly less impressive service rather than a higher price tag.
- jerf 16y agoThey do, but they aren't clones of each other. I'm in southeast Michigan and I often see Maumee OH and Hodgkins IL as the source, but I also sometimes manage to get things shipped from Nevada. Our diapers come from Lewisberry PA, I've got some nuts from Philidelphia, and we got a book a couple months back from Louisville KY. I certainly do not simply get everything from my closest distribution center.
- ErrantX 16y agoGood point. We have multiple distribution centers too; so I get the same thing. But of course here they are all 24 hours away. :) facepalm it should probably have occured to me :)