I’ve seen this claimed a few times lately here on HN but it hasn’t been my experience at all. Is there any data out there to support this claim?
I quit Amazon years ago but my wife still uses it, seems like most things take 2-3 days.
They'll often promise me today or tomorrow and deliver 4-20 days later in some extreme cases.
What are you imagining?
The people reporting falsified shipping times on HN are the data you're asking for. I can personally confirm - Amazon "guarantees" two-day shipping for Prime orders, but it will not actually provide two-day shipping, and if you complain their only response is "Well, it got there eventually. What's wrong?"
After enough time where they systematically refused to honor their own purported benefits, I canceled my Prime membership.
At best they’re an extremely biased sample. More realistically, they’re just anecdotes.
Walmart has next day, and most 1st party e-stores are 2-3 days, so it really just seems like an Amazon problem. (Montana)
During Covid in Bozeman, I spent too much time tracking inbound packages. With I-90 going through town, most quick-shipping packages either came in via truck from Billings (after the air freight to get it there) or direct on the morning Fedex feeder flight arriving to the airport at 8:15am.
At one point, outbound through USPS in Billings was a delay of 2-3 weeks, during COVID.