Anyone else giving up on Amazon "Prime"?

[wdavis]

I am patient and can wait and save a few bucks.

[OldAirmail]

I am patient and can wait and save a few bucks.

Like Siddhartha, I'll learn to be patient again.

[OldAirmail]

UPDATE - Amazon fails spectacularly.


According to Amazon (Time is now 9:05PM)


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According to Amazon "Tracking"


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According to the USPS they never received the package.



What's so funny is that Amazon shipped it from a location 2 HOURS south of my address to an address 2 HOURS north of my address for the USPO to send it to a postal sorting center MIDWAY before delivering it to a local Post Office 45 minutes north. From there it would have been delivered to my house.


Did I say that I'm dropping Amazon Prime?

[H]

According to the USPS they never received the package.
What's so funny is that Amazon shipped it from a location 2 HOURS south of my address to an address 2 HOURS north of my address for the USPO to send it to a postal sorting center MIDWAY before delivering it to a local Post Office 45 minutes north. From there it would have been delivered to my house.

Therein is another problem: because mail for all of these little cottages went to a single mailbox across the road which belonged to the house of the original property owner, the Postmaster General told me to use the USPS office next door as my address when that home's mailbox was removed with an issue between the town and the new property owner. This May the Post Office informed that they are no longer obliged to accept or be responsible for mail via other postal services (UPS, FedEx, etc.) per the recent Postmaster General. This caused me to consider when the military sometimes sent us to remote areas where we had to use another country's postal service to transfer our mail through the USPS, as well as when my company sent me to field locations before I knew what motel I'd be staying at and had to send things ahead. I said, if the USPS can't be responsible for mail presented to them from another US carrier, then how can it be trusted with responsibility for something sent via another country? In fact, we shouldn't be trusting them with anything we bring to their slot or counter.
Since then, however, I trusted them with a package I was sending to Nebraska and they evidently decided to prove me out. A week later I was informed by my intended recipient that the package hadn't arrived and maybe I should invoke the tracking number. i was still waiting for the Post Office to open next door and stopped there first; in my box was an envelope from the Des Moines, Iowa, USPS containing the top of my package box with my return and the recipient's address label; the enclosed letter said they'd lost the rest of the package and wanted to know what had been inside so that they could locate the contents. Sure, two bottles of maple syrup and a special-flavor package of ground coffee; maybe we'll get the emptied maple syrup bottles back (not!).
User beware...

[Anthindelahunt]

You have got to be bloody kidding H.That
is unreal.
Lucky they didn't charge you for the package top.

That is the sort of garbage that goes on down here.

Anthin..

[OldAirmail]

Amazon now assures me that my package will arrive BETWEEN July 3rd (yesterday) and July 5th. FIVE days after I ordered it.



If it was only at Christmas time I could understand.

Unfortunately, this "2 day shipping" delay is happening more and more often, so I'll skip the $99 fee.

And as I said, that "2 day shipping" guarantee was the only Prime benefit that I used.

[OldAirmail]

Success - my "Free 2 day shipping" has finally arrived on the 5th day.


Next comes The Dance of Death!

[yancovitch]

hey...wow.....dance macabre (saint saens) is one of one of my favorite pieces of music.....gives me goose bumps every time

[OldAirmail]

hey...wow.....dance macabre (saint saens) is one of one of my favorite pieces of music.....gives me goose bumps every time

Certainly a good one, but I'll be cloning and moving Solid State Drives in, out, and around.

Clone the old 500GB SSD to the new (almost) 1TB SSD
Swing the old one out and the new one in to see if it starts and works.
If good, clone the Prepar3d V4 250GB SSD onto the Old 500GB SSD C: Drive
I may see if the "system" runs faster with the old 250GB SSD used for two large files that Windows likes to set up called pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys.
If I do that I'll have all six 6GB SATA ports connected to Drives.

While I'm in there, I'll add a five port USB3 PCIE board,
and try to resurrect another five port USB3 PCIE board
I have a lot of USB devices.

I'm also thinking of uninstalling FSX.

There will be a few other things to do.

In all it may sound more like Brahms : Hungarian Dance No. 5
than Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre (although it may end up looking like St. Vitus Dance).

[expat]

I ordered a set of books for one of my boys.....Order within the next 2 hours for next day delivery. Once I paid, the email confirmation informed me it would be three days......

Matt

[SpaceHippy1975]

Come to the UK. I ordered something using Prime at 8pm tonight and it'll be with me tomorrow. Super ultra mega quick.

Same here, I've had no issues with Amazon UK, I've even ordered something one Saturday morning on same day delivery & had my package in my hands by 4pm that same afternoon (not trying to rub salt into the wounds!)

However, if Amazon UK started pulling what is happening to you guys in the US, I'd certainly be getting rightly p*ssed off & take my business elsewhere, PrimeVideo or not.

Keith.

[OldAirmail]

Amazon has, in the past, been very good. Occasionally things took a little longer. Not a problem.

But lately it's pretty normal for a little over half of my packages to be late by a few days.