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They're trying to pressure more sellers to consign their inventory at Amazon warehouses. They have two home court advantages: 1. With the 2% hike they are leve

They're trying to pressure more sellers to consign their inventory at Amazon warehouses. They have two home court advantages: 1. With the 2% hike they are leveraging the power of that 'price rank lowest to highest' display where people pick from the top or close to the top. 2. Consigned items say nebulously 'shipped from Amazon' and the others give a specific location of origin. I don't play favorites and I've found Amazon consignment to be a reasonable source of high reliability delivery, but I've been burned before as I watch things cross from the far side of the country slowly to arrive at the edge of the date window. When it arrives past the window Amazon is always good and quick on refunds, that is good MIS. But I will also scan down list and choose a 3rd party seller that is a little more expensive IF it is close to me geographically and promises to ship small items by USPS. USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities.

mattpallissard 3y ago
> USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities. Tangential comment: It amazes me the number of places in the US that won't ship via USPS. In rural places it's literally the only game in town. Same thing goes with places that won't ship to PO boxes. Some places don't have mail delivery, every home gets a PO box. Oh and that messes with address validation on a lot of forms, because most places look up whether or not a house is in USPS's database. Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating.
- lesuorac 3y ago
  > Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating. I dunno. I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Typically I just see it adding the last 4 of a zipcode but I mean one could mispell an address as well as addresses for a permitted structure should be enumeratable.
  - mattpallissard 3y ago
    > I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Yeah, I'd agree that's pretty sane behavior. But as someone with one of those rural addresses I can say that most of the time you're not able to override it.
  - pests 3y ago
    I forget where but I was once trapped in software hell where it would autocorrect my address to a correct-looking address but actually was a different structure on the property. You had to submit the corrected version. Phone support couldn't help and just redirected me back online. It was a mess.
radicality 3y ago
I’ve ordered something (flipper zero) from west coast to east coast recently, and was shipped with “usps ground advantage”. Item was received by usps Jul 31st, left a depot in west coast on Aug 1st, and radio silence since then on the tracking, it’s “in transit to next facility”. I don’t know if usps has gotten worse recently, but I never had this kind of issue with Amazon shipping (whichever carrier they use, even usps).
BillSaysThis 3y ago
lol, here on the Big Island almost everything arrives via USPS. True, UPS and FedEx have local delivery but it rarely gets used on Amazon deliveries. Supposedly Amazon are building a new facility by the Kona airport, will be interesting to see if that changes delivery times/last mile method.

mattpallissard 3y ago

> USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities. Tangential comment: It amazes me the number of places in the US that won't ship via USPS. In rural places it's literally the only game in town. Same thing goes with places that won't ship to PO boxes. Some places don't have mail delivery, every home gets a PO box. Oh and that messes with address validation on a lot of forms, because most places look up whether or not a house is in USPS's database. Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating.

lesuorac 3y ago
> Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating. I dunno. I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Typically I just see it adding the last 4 of a zipcode but I mean one could mispell an address as well as addresses for a permitted structure should be enumeratable.
- mattpallissard 3y ago
  > I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Yeah, I'd agree that's pretty sane behavior. But as someone with one of those rural addresses I can say that most of the time you're not able to override it.
- pests 3y ago
  I forget where but I was once trapped in software hell where it would autocorrect my address to a correct-looking address but actually was a different structure on the property. You had to submit the corrected version. Phone support couldn't help and just redirected me back online. It was a mess.

radicality 3y ago

I’ve ordered something (flipper zero) from west coast to east coast recently, and was shipped with “usps ground advantage”. Item was received by usps Jul 31st, left a depot in west coast on Aug 1st, and radio silence since then on the tracking, it’s “in transit to next facility”. I don’t know if usps has gotten worse recently, but I never had this kind of issue with Amazon shipping (whichever carrier they use, even usps).

BillSaysThis 3y ago

lol, here on the Big Island almost everything arrives via USPS. True, UPS and FedEx have local delivery but it rarely gets used on Amazon deliveries. Supposedly Amazon are building a new facility by the Kona airport, will be interesting to see if that changes delivery times/last mile method.