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Amazon Sued over Slow Deliveries to Low-Income Areas
- PaulHoule 2y agoLink for free thinkers: https://archive.ph/RQzk8 https://archive.ph/RQzk8 Good! In the pandemic there was a moment that AMZN started to lie about Prime deliveries at my site (a rural site 20 minutes from an unusually cosmopolitan city of 32k inhabitants), instead of 2 day delivery it would take maybe 10 days. It struck me as unfair competition because I'd making a buying decision based on that: if something is going to take 5 days I can easily fit it in my schedule to buy it at the store. (Funny at that time I would see AMZN delivery vans in a nearby neighborhood most Sundays which must have been a form of vice signalling) Soon for me Prime delivery became an official and reliable 5 days but it seemed to me that most of the other vendors (famous camera shops in NYC, paper manufacturer from Texas, etc.) were speeding their delivery up so Prime just didn't seem worth it to me. Since then my AMZN ordering fell off from weekly to once every few months and my peeve for a while was that they kept harassing me to take free trials of Prime, I figured they'd quite harassing me if I took the free trial so I did. For that month this summer I got 2 day delivery and had their truck coming up my driveway which I had mixed feeling about. I can't say the drivers are bad but I don't perceive the professionalism that I perceive from USPS, UPS and FedEx. I don't know how much of this is service improving in my neighborhood or if I am just getting priority service to win me back.