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Elder Postsman posted:5 day shipping should be normal imo. no one really needs a thing in 2 days. and if you do well just go to the store and get it. if you wanna live without a car, quick online delivery for essentials are a godsend i would rather have local shops more readily available, but most american cities, even those with decent by america standards transit, are very much designed around the idea that you drive everywhere i can get groceries by walking easily, but a 3h trip to home depot or whatever for a tool, through an environment that screams "why aren't you driving a personal car, idiot!", just isn't worth it over free two- or one-day shipping
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mediaphage posted:i've had this thought before. like, for the vast majority of things having a once-per-two-weeks delivery day would be fine, and even good? you expect to get things delivered say every other friday and in the meantime you just add various things to carts and then they all show up on that day
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mystes posted:This isn't that different from amazon's amazon day feature although i guess that's once per week ah they don't do that here; i hadn't heard it before. honestly though i'd have no real problem with even pushing it out to once a month. if i could get reasonable healthcare i'd be fine living in some distant part of canada with everything shipped in every couple of months lol
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one day i'm just gonna get a po box and have everything sent there so i can just pick it up once or twice a week
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order two things from amazon item 1: arrives 7-11am, or in five days item 2: arrives tomorrow, or in five days its so dumb
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mystes posted:This isn't that different from amazon's amazon day feature although i guess that's once per week when I schedule things to be delivered on amazon day they still show up 1 item a day all week long anyway
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Jonny 290 posted:order two things from amazon I get this. Though it usually just arrives in 5 days even if it’s supposed to be next day. If I have to order from Amazon now (which gets rarer and rarer for a variety of reasons, the main thing is all the counterfeits and random junk that’s not what I ordered) I have it delivered to something like a Whole Foods and pick it up there. Half the time if I order something it just gets delivered to the wrong place. And it’s not just Amazon either.; I’ve had Walmart misdeliver as well. And of course it’s never at the neighbor’s next door. If my address is 123 Main Street stuff will get delivered to 989 FuckOff Blvd. 6 blocks away.
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Apr 25, 2023 20:07
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amazon's delivery is fast and on time here 
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i generally try to find an alternative to amazon that is local first, then chains, if there isn't some place i can't simply walk to home depot is pretty great to order from, they just get some guy w a truck to bring it to you best buy also has overperformed throughout covid, w instore pickup too
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yeah, that's another thing, it's harder and harder to find anything specific on amazon at all, and 97% of what you do find is identical cheapest-junk-off-alibaba with different keysmash fake brands applied, tagged incorrectly, with indecipherable or incorrect product informationShare Bear posted:i generally try to find an alternative to amazon that is local first, then chains, if there isn't some place i can't simply walk to yeah best buy's instore pickup has always been pretty good but the covid push for more retailers to do instore pickup and do it better has been amazing
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i usually have my amazon deliveries go to a nearby drop box, to me it feels less of a burden on the staff idk
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best buy's pickup is amazing. when i bought my tv and receiver they were all "ok we'll have it ready in 3 hours" and texted me five minutes later to say it's ready Also i flew my first dji mini into a roof, took it back the next day saying "uhhhhh camera doesn't work right" and they swapped on the spot
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hailthefish posted:when I schedule things to be delivered on amazon day they still show up 1 item a day all week long anyway
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yeah, i haven't had any delivery issues with amazon. most anything arrives in 3 days, usually sooner. i've never bothered with the amazon day stuff because i don't order *that* frequently. i'm not going to bitch about something arriving next day that i didn't need so soon -- if it makes sense for them to put an item on a driver's route today instead of tomorrow, then whatever.
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mystes posted:Really? I've only used it a few times, but it seemed like while items could sometimes arrive one day early, if I order a lot of stuff it does tend to all come together in 1-2 boxes on the scheduled day I'm about a hundred miles away from the nearest major urban area which is definitely a big part of it I suspect
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jfc. i live in alone in the boonies, why hasn't the world optimized for me yet
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Share Bear posted:best buy also has overperformed throughout covid, w instore pickup too yeah, that's where i got my m1pro, good experience all around - they had it brand new for ~$100 less than an identically-spec'd apple refurb. it was literally two days before the m2s came out so that's probably why. best buy's delivery tho, hoo boy. it's bad, folks. i ordered a TV last spring and they gave me free 24 hour delivery, contracted out through "roadie". i watched on the tracking site as the driver drove to about half a block away from my house and marked delivery attempted. took like 4 phone calls with best buy where they kept saying they'd retry delivery before they finally agreed to cancel and refund my order.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:jfc.
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sometimes the amazon driver comes at like 4 AM and puts my name into the gate thing and it calls my phone which is real fun
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the actual delivery itself is mostly fine (except when usps just doesnt deliver it), its that amazon waits forever to actually ship it. Like i ordered something saturday and it says it was shipped today with an estimated delivery of tomorrow (but will actually be delivered thursday). idk what the gently caress is up w/ that
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amazon logistics are getting worse in europe too. they've mostly replaced dhl with their own trucks here in nl, and the drivers must be overworked given how little they care about things like handle with care labels and traffic rules packaging is horrible too. i ordered a tub (about a pint) of exotic household cleaner that's not available in stores and it came in big box, 5in x 12in x 12in. tub dented, lid broken and cleaner everywhere. who the gently caress packages things like that
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part of the reason here at least is that combined with relentless expansion they treat the warehouse employees like slaves, same with their amazon-branded contracted delivery drivers. the turnover is apparently insane i'm sure it's not unique to the nyc area but they also tried to crush their unionization drive here. i can't imagine most people working there are motivated to do a good job, just a job until they're ground into dust and quit predictably its been getting worse
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companies are innovative and helpful for just long enough that they can capture the market and then it's time for some rent seeking babey
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Sapozhnik posted:companies are innovative and helpful for just long enough that they can capture the market and then it's time for some rent seeking babey Hey now we have to innovate every day to get promoted
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Gnossiennes posted:https://i.imgur.com/jJmu2mV.mp4 Honestly, if I can put up a taller fence for better privacy and to not be reminded on a daily basis of the inevitable, I'd buy that house for sure at that price
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i would bleed out in that bathroom within like a week
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very few windows in general also
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3br? more like 1br and 2 converted closets
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EricBauman posted:amazon logistics are getting worse in europe too. they've mostly replaced dhl with their own trucks here in nl, and the drivers must be overworked given how little they care about things like handle with care labels and traffic rules https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/amazon-sued-over-crashes-by-drivers-rushing-to-make-deliveries-1.1680831 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/amazon-delivery-drivers-accidents.html
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EricBauman posted:packaging is horrible too. i ordered a tub (about a pint) of exotic household cleaner that's not available in stores and it came in big box, 5in x 12in x 12in. tub dented, lid broken and cleaner everywhere. who the gently caress packages things like that get ye to this excellent thread for some truly great examples of packaging and logistics https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3932360&pagenumber=21&perpage=40
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mystes posted:Really? I've only used it a few times, but it seemed like while items could sometimes arrive one day early, if I order a lot of stuff it does tend to all come together in 1-2 boxes on the scheduled day Originally that’s how it worked for me but lately they’ve been pretty good.
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the story about that tech exec who was stabbed to death by https://twitter.com/mdbarba/status/1650640943006248961
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crazy bob was into drugs? the hell you say
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Sapozhnik posted:companies are innovative and helpful for just long enough that they can capture the market and then it's time for some rent seeking babey i assume it's got to be this. jack up the price, fire some delivery drivers, crank out cheap poo poo, and pay the executives the difference. because at this point where else are you going to go?
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Ah so it was in fact a crazed junkie
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drugs cost money
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but the first hit is always free just don't do the same drug twice, i guess.
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infernal machines posted:but the first hit is always free up against the wall for crimes against coffee
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infernal machines posted:but the first hit is always free
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