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branchero · 02-23-2009, 12:38 AM

Ugh, I wasn't aware that Super Saver was SmartPost.

SmartPost is the slowest, most unreliable shipping method available, and it's about as fast as strapping your package to a guinea pig and putting the pig outside and screaming "go deliver!!!"

If you've ever purchased anything off of woot.com, they frequently use SmartPost and that shipping method has become a running joke on that site's forums. Woot even uses an icon with a package strapped to a snail to denote a product that will be shipped SmartPost. The last thing I ordered with SmartPost shipping took 21 days to make it from Dallas to Sacramento, at one point going the wrong direction and ending up in Arkansas.

I'm not really sure Amazon uses SmartPost though... Amazon super saver is slow but it's not THAT slow.

02-23-2009, 12:38 AM	#15
branchero Love reading, hate books Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 2	Ugh, I wasn't aware that Super Saver was SmartPost. SmartPost is the slowest, most unreliable shipping method available, and it's about as fast as strapping your package to a guinea pig and putting the pig outside and screaming "go deliver!!!" If you've ever purchased anything off of woot.com, they frequently use SmartPost and that shipping method has become a running joke on that site's forums. Woot even uses an icon with a package strapped to a snail to denote a product that will be shipped SmartPost. The last thing I ordered with SmartPost shipping took 21 days to make it from Dallas to Sacramento, at one point going the wrong direction and ending up in Arkansas. I'm not really sure Amazon uses SmartPost though... Amazon super saver is slow but it's not THAT slow.