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Amazon Shipping

kaydee50 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:50:30 GMT

I've always been impressed with Amazon and how quickly items arrive. Now I see they are "contracting" with "regional" shippers including the U.S. Post Office. An item I expected yesterday is being delivered by the USPS and has been "delayed." Not sure why.

I guess all good things must end.

Re: Amazon Shipping

songbird — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:54:16 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
I've always been impressed with Amazon and how quickly items arrive. Now I see they are "contracting" with "regional" shippers including the U.S. Post Office. An item I expected yesterday is being delivered by the USPS and has been "delayed." Not sure why.

I guess all good things must end.

I didn't know that. I agree. Now good things will end!

Re: Amazon Shipping

jpie — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:58:48 GMT

Perhaps it will be delayed since USPS will not be delivering mail tomorrow due to Bush 41's funeral? I got a news alert stating this, but it did say that some packages would keep moving as to not get backed up for the holiday deliveries.

Re: Amazon Shipping

SouthernBee — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:11:23 GMT

@kaydee50: My problem is when they pass it on to USPO and they lie about attempted delivery to look like they are honoring the Amazon contract. My last message- unable to deliver because building closed or gated community and I live on a regular street. This has happened several times and I always notify Amazon of the issue and of course they say it will be investigated but in the mean time call the PO and they never answer the phone! Plus this delays the delivery by 2 or 3 days. Southern Bee

Re: Amazon Shipping

Drythe — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:15:58 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@kaydee50: My problem is when they pass it on to USPO and they lie about attempted delivery to look like they are honoring the Amazon contract. My last message- unable to deliver because building closed or gated community and I live on a regular street. This has happened several times and I always notify Amazon of the issue and of course they say it will be investigated but in the mean time call the PO and they never answer the phone! Plus this delays the delivery by 2 or 3 days. Southern Bee

@SouthernBee

We must have the same P.O.

Re: Amazon Shipping

chickenbutt — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:17:18 GMT

You can't really blame Amazon if the carrier is delaying things, though.

As to the Sure Post stuff, if you have an account with UPS you can have them upgrade it to Ground. Of course, there is a small fee ($3, IIRC) if you don't have the paid account but, at $40 per YEAR, the paid account is worth it for me. I have my UPS account set to automatically upgrade them, so that works nicely.

Either way, if you have a company and it reduces your shipping costs greatly to use these services it would not even make sense not to. When I've gotten something with that service all it does it add one day to shipping time. If the item is Prime, then they don't change the shipping to add an additional day to delivery.

Re: Amazon Shipping

SouthernBee — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:17:52 GMT

@Drythe: Yep and probably a lot of other people. Southern Bee

Re: Amazon Shipping

gidgetgh — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:34:22 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
I've always been impressed with Amazon and how quickly items arrive. Now I see they are "contracting" with "regional" shippers including the U.S. Post Office. An item I expected yesterday is being delivered by the USPS and has been "delayed." Not sure why.

I guess all good things must end.

@kaydee50- I also had an item I was expecting yesterday that they emailed me about last night and said delayed. Have no idea why.

Re: Amazon Shipping

alliswell — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:35:38 GMT

In my location, USPS always delivers my Amazon orders and items that are not Prime are also delivered super-fast by USPS, within 2-days, sometimes faster.

Re: Amazon Shipping

SouthernBee — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:44:51 GMT

@alliswell: Be thankful and count your Blessings. Southern Bee

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Laura14 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:49:58 GMT

We actually have a Prime van that has been running around the neighborhood lately. Just saw it a few weeks ago. I am not a Prime member but I think Amazon is maybe making good on that in house transportation threat.

Re: Amazon Shipping

TTerri — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:51:45 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@kaydee50: My problem is when they pass it on to USPO and they lie about attempted delivery to look like they are honoring the Amazon contract. My last message- unable to deliver because building closed or gated community and I live on a regular street. This has happened several times and I always notify Amazon of the issue and of course they say it will be investigated but in the mean time call the PO and they never answer the phone! Plus this delays the delivery by 2 or 3 days. Southern Bee

Your problem is with your local post office and you shouldn't be contacting Amazon about it since it has nothing to do with them.

Re: Amazon Shipping

alliswell — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:53:04 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@alliswell: Be thankful and count your Blessings. Southern Bee

@SouthernBee Yes, I surely am Thankful and I always do count my Blessings - even the blessing that doesn't appear to be a blessing at the time.

Re: Amazon Shipping

TTerri — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:54:25 GMT

OP, Amazon uses UPS SurePost and UPS Mail Innovations a lot, who take the packages to our local post offices for final delivery. QVC recently sent an expensive computer via UPS SurePost and I'm not happy about it. I don't want the post office touching anything that's expensive.

Re: Amazon Shipping

mistyada — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:17:58 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@kaydee50: My problem is when they pass it on to USPO and they lie about attempted delivery to look like they are honoring the Amazon contract. My last message- unable to deliver because building closed or gated community and I live on a regular street. This has happened several times and I always notify Amazon of the issue and of course they say it will be investigated but in the mean time call the PO and they never answer the phone! Plus this delays the delivery by 2 or 3 days. Southern Bee

@SouthernBee If you get that message you should report it directly to the USPS. That is a rogue carrier and should be stopped.

Years ago I had a mail carrier that put a card in my mailbox stating they were no longer to deliver my mail because of my neighbor’s car. That neighbor’s car was parked on a public street in front of that neighbor’s home. My mailbox was in the legally required side of my driveway. No car was parked in front of my box and my box was on the other side of my driveway with at least 10 feet of clearance from my neighbor’s car. I immediately reported that postal carrier. I never had trouble with mail delivery again. You should do the same if they are not delivering packages and using false excuses. That is illegal. It will improve a lot of other people’s deliveries too.

Re: Amazon Shipping

kaydee50 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:29:38 GMT

@chickenbuttWell, IMO it is the shipper's (Amazon's) responsibility to get the item to me in the timeframe noted. I do not want to have to contact the post office. Amazon should follow up or they will not get their payment. (My credit card is not due for a few more weeks.)

Re: Amazon Shipping

SouthernBee — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:31:28 GMT

@ @TTerri: The local post office does not answer their phone. I do not drive and rely on friends for transportation. Amazon has noticed that I am a great and frequent customer. Also, the 1-800 USPS number that Amazon suggest using- guess what- they don’t answer the phone. My friend with the local post office that normally helped me recently died. Southern Bee

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SouthernBee — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:33:08 GMT

@alliswell: Totally understand. Southern Bee

Re: Amazon Shipping

software — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:36:02 GMT

You will get a daily email, if you don't get a package, you can reply to the email and start a claim.

@SouthernBee wrote:
@ @TTerri: The local post office does not answer their phone. I do not drive and rely on friends for transportation. Amazon has noticed that I am a great and frequent customer. Also, the 1-800 USPS number that Amazon suggest using- guess what- they don’t answer the phone. My friend with the local post office that normally helped me recently died. Southern Bee