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Originally Posted by jswinden
We occasionally discuss Amazon shipping here, so I thought this was interesting, kind of, sort of, or maybe not at all... I ordered a small, inexpensive item late last week that was listed as a free Prime Two-day delivery item. It is supposed to arrive today. Clearly not in two days, but more and more Amazon seems to interpret the Prime 2-day shipping to mean from the time it is shipped rather than from the time it is purchased. Not cool IMO, but that isn't the interesting part. |
I believe it has always been interpreted this way. It's always been 2-day shipping, not 2-day guaranteed delivery, and IIRC they always tell how long before they expect an item to ship, and the guaranteed DELIVERY date, if there is one, always reflects this.
Perhaps what has increased is that more items are not available to ship out the same day we order, perhaps due to an expanded marketplace of sellers, or cost-saving JIT inventory systems. When almost everything they sold was ready to ship same day, we just got kind of spoiled that 2-day shipping also resulted in us getting it delivered in two days from order.