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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Amazon won't have the distribution centres. The delivery companies have the distribution centres. Amazon will be* using them by sending packages with generic addresses that get updated in transit.
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I use UPS My Choice and, when I order from Amazon, I get an email from UPS telling me the date and time of delivery and offering me an opportunity to change the date and / or time if inconvenient for me.
After delivery, they send me an email telling the exact time and place of delivery.
Most of my Amazon purchases reach me in one day. The place of origination in the UPS tracking history is usually a warehouse only 5 miles from my house or a UPS center 5 miles from my house.
Goods, which I order on a regular, periodic basis, already show ads on their home page for me when I am supposed to re-order. If I search for new products at Amazon, they always have reminder ads for me on their home page for a few days.
Those ads even appear on OTHER SITES as well since they must plant cookies on my PC to keep them appearing wherever I go on the internet.
That patent may only be confirming something they are already doing.