just wonderful, i'm NEVER home when they deliver...
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.”
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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.
Season 15 Episode 7, “The Enemy Within” - a Tom Baker classic.
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.
just wonderful, i'm NEVER home when they deliver...
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.
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.
Did you mean to post this one?
Hey, isn’t that the Ark of the Covenant over there????
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.
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.
I don't think so.
Did you order one?
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.
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.
Dunno about that, but I thought I saw Jimmy Hoffa in a red vest ;-)
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...
If you’re bad, he prints it in the WaPo.
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?
Wow I loved that book! One of the best!
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 ;-)
I’ve never even been to Amazon, they had better not ever ship me anything!
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