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Originally Posted by mgmueller
When ordering around, let's say, 2pm, Amazon easily should be able to ship on the very same day. Let's say within 4 to 8 hours.
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I would never expect an order I placed at 2pm to ship the same day. That's late in my experience in the U.S. Midwest. If I don't get it in before 11:30am or so, I usually don't see it ship until the next day (keep in mind that "shipped" often means "the carrier received the data about your order," so it's not always that newsworthy to begin with). But even so, I've had exactly one (out of many, many) Prime orders take 3 days instead of my guaranteed 2 days; and I've had a handful of next-day bonuses--so I'm ahead of the game! But mostly, my orders are 2-days like clockwork. My stuff (small items mostly) usually ships Fedex Smartpost -- meaning it ships Fedex to a Smartpost hub close by, and then the USPS delivers it the rest of the way to my home.
I had one order ship directly from the Smartpost hub. I'm pretty sure that was some of that predictive shipping to a zipcode stuff that people were talking about a while back. Cool stuff.
But yeah ... two days like clockwork. No complaints.
Growing up in the hey-day of mailing in an order-form and "please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery," I think consistent, two- (and the occasional next-) day deliveries (not just from Amazon, but anyone) are nothing short of amazeballs.