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[chickenbutt]

To my knowledge (I am in a somewhat small city, as cities go), not here.

I get my Amazon orders either from UPS or OnTrac, and sometimes USPS from third party sellers.

Also, lately, I've been getting my monthly Amazon order (which is a large box that also contains a 30# bag of dog food) from some sort of 'Sunday Delivery USPS' service.

[Krimpette]

In my area, they typically deliver in a white vehicle with the Amazon "A" on the side.  So far, so good.  Very nice people delivering.  

[willdob3]

All of my recent orders have been delivered by USPS. There are two Amazingly n Fulfillment Centers nearby so it surprises me that they don't deliver some themselves. But most of my orders come from out of state.

[2blonde]

I think mine are still coming by USPS or UPS, but I'm not a Prime member. I live in a condo where the front porch is totally exposed to 23 other condos and is very near the sidewalk.  I like that they usually deliver larger packages to my back doorstep, which is hidden inside my fenced in patio area.  Sometimes, however, the mail carrier delivers to the front where my mailbox is.......especially when it's a small package.  Scary, but no problem so far.

[santorini]

My latest Amazon delivery was late afternoon on Sunday.  I live on a corner lot and happened to be in the back yard. I was checking a sprinkler problem and I was looking over the breezeway gate into the side yard.  I noticed a white van turn down the street and then do a u-turn.  He drove up, shouted my full name (which shocked me) and said he just wanted to tell me he had dropped off a box for me on the front porch.  I rarely use my front door since my garage is on a different street and I enter through the back door.  I, of course, check my mail by the front door every weekday, but this was on Sunday, so I certainly wouldn't have checked out front.  I was grateful that he hunted me down and told me. 

[Brooklynny]

Amazon doesn't do "self" deliveries here yet.  A 100+ year old warehouse building three miles from my home is being converted to a huge Amazon distribution/fulfillment center..  I don't remember when it will be completed, but I do remember reading that they will have same-day delivery to customers within a certain radius of the facility.

[chrystaltree]

I don't know about every state or even every city but here in my part of MA, Amazon does have it's own Delivery trucks.  The drivers are in uniform and the cars have the Amazon logo.  They are efficient and polite but to be fair, so are the UPS and Usps people.  What I really like about Amazon delivery is that if you are not home when they try to deliver, they come back late in the day or the next business day.  That was a total surprise to me.  I went out one Sunday and missed my delivery and the driver came back around 7pm at night.  He said if the miss somone, they are supposed to circle back before they end their day.   I actually just got a delivery.  I work from home and I needed some spiral notebooks.  I was not going into the office just for that and so I found a 12 pack on Amazon for some sill low price Saturday night and they delivered them about an hour ago.  I love my Amazon!

[GCR18]

I haven't paid attention who delivers amazon other than it's not UPS.  The UPS man always rings.  FEDEX and USPS, drop and run.

[Susan Louise]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

They have them where I live.

Unmarked green van.

Knock.

Drop.

Run.

The delivery guys are probably told to make stops as short as possible, and probably timed to see how long they are at each stop, and how long it takes them to get to the next stop.

They are probably pressured to be faster, faster, faster.

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@Plaid Pants2  Our UPS drivers never walk to drop off a pkg...it's always a sprint...

I am so glad I am out of the workforce and just a homemaker. Even about 10 yrs ago when I stopped working outside of the home, the last 5 years were filled with more and more pressures to do things faster, more efficient, faster, more efficient, meetings about meetings about how we could be more efficient...

I reached the breaking point and just hung up my hat so to speak. I'm a human being, not a robot. I also felt that job security didn't exist anymore. There is nothing worse than feling parinoid every day...wondering if you did enough by the end of the day so you didn't get a pink slip. My health was more important and thankful my DH agreed.

I remember when working a job felt good. You could go home and feel like you accomplished something and you did a good day's work...and have job security

Nowadays, I couldn't even imagine still being in the workforce and have peace of mind. I worked 2 full time jobs with mandatory OT for nearly 25+ yrs...also having other jobs before and after that stretch (so I didn't work just 25 yrs in my lifetime...LOL

[september]

This hasn't happened yet, where I live, but since my Prime Deliveries aren't being deliverered on schedule, I'd be happy if they started to use it here.