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Ordered a printer from Amazon (prime and all that), was to be fulfilled by amazon.
Eight days later it was still "being prepared" or whatever BS they said.
Called up CDW, had the same printer shipped to me in two days for less than $10 more.
After receiving the printer, THEN I canceled my Amazon order.
This is not the first, second, or third time this has happened.
When I order stuff to be delivered to my business partner on the mainland, he gets it in two days, sometimes the next day.
Lately, for my personal stuff. I've just been using ebay. Sometimes I'll save up to 50% on the item over Amazon.
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I had a delivery that was unusually slow. What I finally deduced was that I had something on a subscription basis, vitamins, so they delayed my shipment so it could along with the subscription items. They probably save money when they can gang all the items into one box. If you don't like delays it may be best to not have subscription items.
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on the other hand, you know when subscription items ship, so if you time it right, other orders might ship faster.
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Amazon has hit a new low for slow shipping. This is for an in-stock item sold and fulfilled by Amazon:
Ordered: December 17
Shipped: December 26
Estimated arrival date: January 31, 2020.
I originally thought they made a mistake and meant it would arrive on December 31 but they used "UPS Mail Innovations" as their shipping carrier. Apparently that takes 5+ weeks on top of the 9 days Amazon took to ship the item? How did they find a method of shipping that is slower than the barge? And why? The shipping weight is under 16 ounces, it could have gone First Class mail.
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yes and apparently using the postoffice address and your box number no longer works with ups. just had a package sent back to amazon by ups who wouldn't take to mt. view, only hilo postoffice... i think amazon has finally just gotten too big and will implode itself...
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From what I've seen, the recent tie ups seem to be in Honolulu. Packages shipped there from the mainland will sit for a week or more before their one hour plane ride over to the Big Island.
Certainty will be the death of us.
Must be the stuff you've ordered? I have had several, 7 - 8, purchase all get to me within 48hrs of my orders, all Christmas season. Lickety-split, there's UPS at my door again. I've actually been amazed. Now, I should note, before I buckled under and subscribed to Prime it was a whole different story. Without Prime it seemed like stuff had to ride at the back of the bus, probably had to swim here on its own. Came weeks late. At least that's my experience. Ever since I subscribed its golden.
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@terracore
My last few orders from Amazon [Nov., and early Dec.] have arrived one to two days earlier than they forecast and I expected.
It has taken 3 to 4 days for them to ship, but once sent they have moved right along.
The carriers are who got them here early.
The Christmas rush may be the main drag for your order.
M'Lady has ordered a notebook PC for our upcoming travel plan.
It won't be in stock until after the new year.
Don't remember exactly, but it may be in February they expect to send it.
Out of stock due to the Xmas rush.
I never place orders for delivery in the 2 weeks around Xmas.
We won't need it before May anyway.
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This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
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After placing and/or attempting to place numerous orders in the last couple of months that would not provide any shipping date information I called Amazon and asked what the heck was going on with my Prime membership? The CS rep went thru a few orders with me and he saw the same thing. Who orders from Amazon Prime with no idea as to when the item will arrive? The items that would provide shipping info were approx 2 months out even though were in stock. He didn't get it either, they had not been briefed as to what was going on with Hawaii orders and no one could tell him while he put me on hold. What did he then do? Gave me a full refund on Prime, over $100 which was almost up for renewal, he refunded the entire year for me. Since then I get much better shipping without Prime, go figure.
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I have not had any issues with items shipped to Hawaii recently - and as noted by 1voyager1, was surprised to see them arriving earlier, many times in as little as 2-3 days from order placement.
