Ask HN: Anyone else noticing long delivery times with Amazon? I live in the Seattle area, and last week I feel like I started to see a massive spike in delivery times. I've had a delivery that was supposed to arrive today that's been delayed for 2+ days. And when I look on for the delivery times of basically anything it seems like the expected delivery times are at the tail end of next week. Just curious is others are seeing this across the country. |
A lot of goods move the other way (imports come into the western ports and are trucked east), but some goods do come from the eastern part of the state and country.
Staffing is probably also a factor.
As for Prime, I used to be able to get deliveries 2 days after purchase, but my cart ETA for most items shows 3-4 days at least. It's not a big deal but I've certainly noticed that Amazon doesn't seem to be able to deliver as fast as it used to just last month.
In NYC I can order an item in the early hours of the morning and get it by night.
And that's not Amazon Fresh or anything, I've ordered 3d printer parts and had them in less than 24 hours.
At the end of the day I don't really have an issue with Prime taking longer than 2 days though, how much more blood (er sorry "efficiency") can really be squeezed from the stone?