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Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It
WSJ ^ | Jan 17, 2014 | Greg Bensinger

Posted on 01/18/2014 1:47:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows

Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it.

The Seattle retailer in December gained a patent for what it calls “anticipatory shipping,” a method to start delivering packages even before customers click “buy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonamazondotcom; amazoncart; amazonshipping; bigbrother; foryourowngood; marketingprofile; napl; privacyrights
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To: Slings and Arrows

I think Newegg does this, I’m convinced that they have a guy on my street, and when I push the buy button, he is already speeding to my door with the product.

They are really fast.


81 posted on 01/18/2014 11:43:54 AM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Season 15 Episode 7, “The Enemy Within” - a Tom Baker classic.


82 posted on 01/18/2014 11:44:33 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: JoeProBono; goat granny

I’m a huge Pournelle fan. I’ve been reading him since the late 70s when he was a Byte magazine columnist, and am a patron to his blog / web page today. Him and Free Republic are the only two sites I send money to like that.


83 posted on 01/18/2014 12:10:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Stoat
just wonderful, i'm NEVER home when they deliver...
84 posted on 01/18/2014 12:46:29 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: FreedomPoster

I also read Lucifers Hammer by the same two, but it was so long ago, all I remember are the titles they were so unusual. I then got into reading all of Louis L’mour books and really got upset when he up and died. Most excellent stories of the old west and he was a great story teller.


85 posted on 01/18/2014 1:18:52 PM PST by goat granny
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To: discostu
...3 purchases in a row last year arrived the next day even though I wasn’t Prime

I think speed of delivery probably has more to do as to what time of the day it is, what day it is, and whether the package ends up at the front of the Semi or back of the Semi and how far away the main hub of USPS, UPS, FedEX is. Just one note don't expect much time wise if you order something on a Saturday, because I think all the above shippers have Sunday off, and I know the facility I work at closes down for Saturday nights, during the non Christmas season.

86 posted on 01/18/2014 2:54:12 PM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: JoeProBono
That's a 1x1 white jpeg.

Did you mean to post this one?


87 posted on 01/18/2014 3:03:48 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Hey, isn’t that the Ark of the Covenant over there????


88 posted on 01/18/2014 3:05:31 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: Zenjitsuman
Amazon is going to be losing a lot of business on interstate commerce.

Look for whether it's sold by Amazon or not. A lot of stuff on Amazon is not "sold by Amazon" and thus, assuming the actual seller is in a different state from you, still escapes sales tax.

89 posted on 01/18/2014 3:08:43 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: ReformedBeckite

Usually when I pick the slow free shipping they seem to sit on it for at least a day or two just to make sure I know what slow free shipping is. But there was that stretch last year where everything was next day.


90 posted on 01/18/2014 3:10:11 PM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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To: tanknetter
Hey, isn’t that the Ark of the Covenant over there????

I don't think so.

Did you order one?

91 posted on 01/18/2014 3:20:41 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: discostu
But there was that stretch last year where everything was next day.

Last week, I ordered a portable radio, three pairs of rechargeable C-batteries, and a patch cable. It was a choice of free two-day shipping on Prime or add $20 ($4 * 5 items) for one-day. I went with free, but it arrived a day early anyway.

92 posted on 01/18/2014 3:25:49 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: goat granny

Pournelle is a real modern Renaissance man, besides the fiction he was a computer columnist, and he covers much political subject matter on his blog, from a principled, informed, educated paleoconservative standpoint.


93 posted on 01/18/2014 5:03:22 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: tanknetter; cynwoody
Hey, isn’t that the Ark of the Covenant over there????

Dunno about that, but I thought I saw Jimmy Hoffa in a red vest ;-)

94 posted on 01/18/2014 5:34:19 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Jeff is coming to town...

He’s making a list
And checking it twice
Gonna find out
Who’s naughty or nice
Santa Jeff is coming to town.

He sees when you’ve been surfing
He knows when you’re awake
He knows your credit’s bad or good
So be good for goodness’ sake...


95 posted on 01/18/2014 6:13:01 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC

If you’re bad, he prints it in the WaPo.


96 posted on 01/18/2014 8:07:24 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: tbw2

I meant how could Amazon prove patent infringement from another company?

Consider when Walmart had trucks of bottled water sitting in truck stops within a few hours’ drive of New Orleans right before Katrina struck. Were they anticipating demand? If they did that now, would they be guilty of patent infringement?


97 posted on 01/19/2014 9:39:16 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: JoeProBono

Wow I loved that book! One of the best!


98 posted on 01/19/2014 9:49:39 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Chode

I think that’s why “sick days” were invented....but in truth my UPS driver that comes to the stoat cave is a guy. As a male stoat, that’s entirely unacceptable to me ;-)


99 posted on 01/19/2014 4:47:45 PM PST by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’ve never even been to Amazon, they had better not ever ship me anything!


100 posted on 01/19/2014 4:57:43 PM PST by dalereed
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