I’ve had prime for a long time and until about a month ago it’s been great. All of a sudden it’s taking four or five days to get things that are supposed to be here in 2. I haven’t been able to figure out why I’m paying $99 a year for something I’m not getting.
Weather-related shipping delays hit Amazon hard in December and January - that was true for non-Prime and Prime purchases. Often you can drop a note or call to their support and get a refund for what the shipping cost would have been when things are delayed.
Same here, Bean. Prime orders that span a weekend always take five days. Something changed. Maybe Amazon affiliates don’t honor the two-days order to door promise.
TC
I've noticed the same - but not consistently (yet). My guess is that they staff way up to handle the holiday purchases, then the usual baseline number of shipping employees are overwhelmed when the temporary people all leave.
I found that it slowed a couple of months ago.....still worth it though...no driving to several stores, having it delivered right to you..
There are some quirks in the Amazon way of doing things, The more items you order in a order the odds increase proportionately that you will not get that order in two days if Amazon decides to ship them all in one package . A lot of times if you order two items, one item will be at one facility and the other item will be at another facility and alot of times they will ship the one of those two items to the nearest facility to combine them before packaging them up and shipping them from that facility.
“All of a sudden it’s taking four or five days to get things that are supposed to be here in 2. I haven’t been able to figure out why I’m paying $99 a year for something I’m not getting.”
whenever shipping is late, i call up and request that a free month of prime is added on.