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Originally Posted by Hitch
I think it's probably complaints, rather than cost. They switched up to using "Fedex Home," which is Fedex subcontracting out to the Post Office. Lots of customers--like yours truly--live in rural, or semi-rural areas, that use community mailbox setups. My mailbox, for example, is half-a-mile from my actual house. It's not in a Post office; it's a bunch of boxes. Like these: http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.co...ailboxessm.jpg
Ergo, if I am supposed to receive a package that's too big for those "big" boxes you see at the bottom, I'm just OUTTA LUCK. My post-person won't bring it to "my door." They simply leave me a green slip, telling me I have to schelp 30MI to go fetch the delivery for which I've paid for "to my door" service. Needless to say, I've had some pretty heated discussions with Amazon about it, and I've left everything that they've shipped to the PO, and refused to pay for it.
My attitude on it is that I'm, and they are, paying Fedex to deliver the package to my home. I won't "fetch." Period. I suspect that this situation is now plaguing the millions of Americans who bought homes since the mid-80's. That's when the Post Office decided to go to community mailboxes in all new housing and all rural-ish areas. I have asked Amazon repeatedly to make shipping OPTIONS available, so I can always choose UPS (which will always come to my door), even if it's slower, which I don't mind.
{shrug}. That's my guess as to the reasoning behnd this. I'll bet it's customer dissatisfaction over the PO's delivery services, rather than the money, given Amazon's view of the world.
Hitch |
I agree. For me its a bit of a different problem. I loved prime because UPS and Fedex deliver to my apartment address. But now that most of the stuff comes with just USPS or through the UPS smartpost thingy that goes to the USPS, I have to get my package from the apartment office. Problem is that they are always out and about and I have to hunt down my packages. Even if you home here, postal service does not deliver packages to the door, but only to the leasing office. Its rare now that I get packages with UPS and Fedex when up until a while back everything pretty much came with UPS. I never had to worry to hunt down my package and I have had the same driver for the last 14 years.
So often for me its more than 2 days because I can't always find the office open the day it gets delivered or the office is closed when the postal guy tries to deliver so they take it back to the base and try again the next day.
It was my reason for signing up for Prime in the first place. To the door UPS/Fedex deliveries.
