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> They now have warehouses located within 1 day ground shipping distance of everywhere in the continental US. Amazon does not have a warehouse within 1 day gro
by varikin 11y ago
> They now have warehouses located within 1 day ground shipping distance of everywhere in the continental US.
Amazon does not have a warehouse within 1 day ground shipping of me in Minneapolis, MN. I think the closest is Indiana which is 2 day ground shipping. There is a lot of the continental US that is not New York or California. Amazon still has more work to do cover all of if they want 1 day shipping everywhere. Now, they are planning on building a warehouse about 90 minutes of the Twin Cities so we will be within 1 day shipping in a couple years, but how many other metropolitan areas are outside of 1 day?
Here is nice little map from UPS to figure out shipping times. If you put in 55414 as the zip code (Minneapolis), UPS only considers Minnesota and Wisconsin as 1 day. Hell, If I am reading these maps right, Chicago is just at the border of 1 day and 2 day ground shipping from Indiana, the closest warehouse.
http://www.ups.com/maps?srch_pos=1&srch_phr=time+in+transit+map http://www.ups.com/maps?srch_pos=1&srch_phr=time+in+transit+...
- kw71 11y agoThey can also line-haul trucks from the warehouse to a UPS hub every evening to extend their "one day delivery" reach. McMaster-Carr is one distributor that has been doing this successfully for years. I think that Amazon is already doing some transportation, some of my purchases during the last winter holiday came from the west coast but did not appear at UPS until Kentucky.