Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one day by default

arstechnica.com

3 pointsarkades3 comments

This is already the norm in NYC as of the past few months. It used to be that by declining optional free one-day delivery I could prevent LaserShip from handling my delivery but that is no longer the case. I would take three-day delivery if it meant that I never had to have another packaged delivered by LaserShip.

I used to dread having a package shipped LaserShip but I would gladly take LaserShip over delivery by Amazon. At least with LaserShip I knew that when the package said delivered when it wasn't the package would show up the next day at my door.

The majority of time Amazon delivers a package using their own service I have to spend 30 minutes figuring which neighbors front porch my package is sitting on in the picture provided in the Amazon app. Even worse is if the package is delivered in the evening because then the drivers just mark the package as handed directly to resident so they don't have to take the time for a picture. Then I have to blindly scour the block hoping to spot my package.

Two day doesn’t get to me in two days half the time.

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