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What about the fact that it's ok if deliveries are slower? How many of the things that people buy online, whether from Amazon or not, actually need to be same day or next day? If there were options for "just sometime in the next month", I'd chose that.
Of course, I understand that be a logistics nightmare to schedule, I'm only making the argument that delivery speed is a more a luxury than necessity. As is Amazon itself.
A priest was giving a sermon about how the life and experiences of Jesus are still relevant to us today. “He faced all the same temptations we face today. All of them.”
Afterward a member of the congregation approached him and said “father, I enjoyed your sermon, but there is one temptation we face today that Jesus never had to.”
“And what’s that?”
“Speed.”
Amazon actually does have that option for deliveries. It's typically labeled either "Amazon Day" (where they try to group orders into fewer deliveries / boxes, though it's pretty mixed on that), or No Rush (where it might be a week out and they give you a dollar credit for something as an incentive).
Though that's usually more "in the next week or so" than "next month"
Did they start recently? I haven't seen anything like that.
It's been around for a couple years.
This option has always been a huge scam. Whenever I choose it, Amazon waits until that day to even ship the thing, then it takes an extra day or two on top of the voluntary initial delay. So my 2 day delivery turns into 6-7 days
The one time I used that option I ended up with 3 separate deliveries on the same day
Not to mention that theres almost always enough order volume for a bulk same-day delivery. Id imagine theres enough orders for 30+ deliveries in a 4 block radius on any given day
I avoid Amazon but when I do make the mistake of ordering from them, they literally hold my order until the delivery date. It’s effectively same day every time, to encourage me to buy Prime.
They also deliver 24 hours a day here. Multiple vans daily. It’s all a farce to avoid paying their fair share.
No I have prime and they do the same thing, I figure it's just the bottleneck not being the delivery itself.
The bottle neck being that they refuse to pay drivers more money so are always short staffed.
It's actually devastating to society. The whole Amazon delivery mindset is a plague that affects so many people now.
A customer buys a used piece of equipment off ebay, mind you something big enough to go on a skid, and within the day they buy it; "Is it shipped yet? I need the tracking number. When will it be here?" I hate these morons.
This mentality bleeds into repair work as well, which I got tired of, I'm just going to do something else for work. One ~~cunt~~ I meant customer told me she needs this fixed yesterday. I intentionally took my time. Same goes for the idiots that call me and ask if I can come out right now, or "can you come in at 4AM before we open to fix this machine?" Like yeah, I'm going to go to the shop, pick up tools and parts at 2AM, then drive an an hour to your restaurant so I can make pretty much minimum wage---(taxes, fuel, insurance, wear and tear on my car, billing, inventory, part shopping, etc, all the invisible expenses) and then of course having to justify why I charge so much to fix something in minutes. Yeah like the over a decade of experience was just given to me on a flash stick that shoved up my yass and I learned everything instantly.
It wasn't like this when I first started doing this kind of a job. People were more relaxed. I'm keeping doing repair work to a minimum, and I work on a lot of really expensive equipment. And there's a severe shortage of people that do what I do. Part of it is the expenses, part of it is everyone's Amazon like mentality. And don't forget the "why does this cost so much more for the same work you did two years ago." Sigh. Trade work was fun but the last few years I can't be bothered anymore. Sorry for the rant.