12-30-2019, 09:29 AM
I suspect Amazon loses money on Hawaii orders, relative to urban mainland orders. I sometimes send items from Amazon to my daughter in Portland, OR, (occasionally for her to send on to Pahoa when something won’t ship to Hawaii) and she gets them within two days every time. If Amazon delivers with its own system, I will get a photo of the delivered item outside her apartment door. (No porch pirates yet. 
Amazon appears to be expanding its own parallel delivery system. More and more an item will not make it to USPS until several legs of arriving and departing an “Amazon facility”. And more and more the item will go all the way to a Honolulu Amazon facility and sit for a couple few days, and then appears magically at the Pahoa PO.
I don’t expect the Prime mainland style two day shipping to Hawaii. It’s an added 5+ hour plane ride. Still frustrating when something ends up on the barge. I am just happy Amazon appears to making sustainable changes to Hawaii shipping rather than say the dreaded “48 contiguous states” like so many other companies’ free shipping. I often thought Prime should be more expensive for Hawaii, but never happened.
In contrast, I ordered two of the same very discounted items from Best Buy on December 4th. Free shipping. Email saying it will be delivered sooner than expected. But they used UPS sure save or something like that. It is “delivered” to San Mateo CA on December 8th and then turned over to USPS, and then it goes to the dreaded San Francisco USPS facility to get on the barge. Arrived three days ago. At least one did. The other disappeared at San Mateo. UPS tracking has it turned over to USPS. USPS tracking has it “USPS awaiting item”.
Chat support on BestBuy.com a couple days ago. Lengthy chat about the situation and finally they agree to send replacement. But I don’t want it going on the barge. So they agree to UPS two day shipping. Next day instead of a shipping email I get a refund. The item was no longer on sale and someone or bot must have noticed the two day UPS would be very expensive and changed it.
Anyway, for all the inconsistency on amazon shipping lately, I am glad they still do “Prime shipping” to Hawaii and hope the kinks will get worked out.
OtherWorldComputing (macsales.com) appears to have thrown Hawaii under the bus as far as shipping goes. Only USPS option is now next day delivery or something which is prohibitive. Crutchfield stills does good by Hawaii.
Walmart and Target online still seem to be trying to figure out Hawaii and I don’t buy enough from either to have a feel for it. And then there is Home Depot. And the “order it online in the store” and it ships to CA and barges the rest of the way. And I’ll never figure out Costco.com, but more and more it seems undoable, shippingwise.
In any case, I think our added first world problem in Hawaii regarding shipping is “incidental, not integral”* Enjoy the sunny afternoon with a full catchment.
Cheers,
Kirt
*Harold and Maude
Amazon appears to be expanding its own parallel delivery system. More and more an item will not make it to USPS until several legs of arriving and departing an “Amazon facility”. And more and more the item will go all the way to a Honolulu Amazon facility and sit for a couple few days, and then appears magically at the Pahoa PO.
I don’t expect the Prime mainland style two day shipping to Hawaii. It’s an added 5+ hour plane ride. Still frustrating when something ends up on the barge. I am just happy Amazon appears to making sustainable changes to Hawaii shipping rather than say the dreaded “48 contiguous states” like so many other companies’ free shipping. I often thought Prime should be more expensive for Hawaii, but never happened.
In contrast, I ordered two of the same very discounted items from Best Buy on December 4th. Free shipping. Email saying it will be delivered sooner than expected. But they used UPS sure save or something like that. It is “delivered” to San Mateo CA on December 8th and then turned over to USPS, and then it goes to the dreaded San Francisco USPS facility to get on the barge. Arrived three days ago. At least one did. The other disappeared at San Mateo. UPS tracking has it turned over to USPS. USPS tracking has it “USPS awaiting item”.
Chat support on BestBuy.com a couple days ago. Lengthy chat about the situation and finally they agree to send replacement. But I don’t want it going on the barge. So they agree to UPS two day shipping. Next day instead of a shipping email I get a refund. The item was no longer on sale and someone or bot must have noticed the two day UPS would be very expensive and changed it.
Anyway, for all the inconsistency on amazon shipping lately, I am glad they still do “Prime shipping” to Hawaii and hope the kinks will get worked out.
OtherWorldComputing (macsales.com) appears to have thrown Hawaii under the bus as far as shipping goes. Only USPS option is now next day delivery or something which is prohibitive. Crutchfield stills does good by Hawaii.
Walmart and Target online still seem to be trying to figure out Hawaii and I don’t buy enough from either to have a feel for it. And then there is Home Depot. And the “order it online in the store” and it ships to CA and barges the rest of the way. And I’ll never figure out Costco.com, but more and more it seems undoable, shippingwise.
In any case, I think our added first world problem in Hawaii regarding shipping is “incidental, not integral”* Enjoy the sunny afternoon with a full catchment.
Cheers,
Kirt
*Harold and Maude