It's all anecdotal, but before Prime was introduced in Germany, Amazon always shipped very quickly after placing an order. Total time until delivery was reliabl

It's all anecdotal, but before Prime was introduced in Germany, Amazon always shipped very quickly after placing an order. Total time until delivery was reliably 2-3 days. After, it was taking them days to process an order, so that time went up to about a week. I eventually gave in and signed up. Prime shipping isn't actually faster here, it's just what the old normal free shipping used to be.