Hmmm judging by the things I write, the topic seems off. Or may be not. All I write is my experience. Well for the last 3 years I have used Amazon extensively (I think), 32 orders to be accurate its almost 1 order per month. Anyways, they have these 3-4 shipping options, charging according to the speed. Of course I choose the slowest one possible.
They even have a free shipping, which again I have used extensively. They are kind enough to give an explanation of what the shipping and delivery date times mean and how is it calculated. So the free shipping is delivered in 5-9 days after shipping and shipping itself takes 3-5 days. Its free so why complain. I am not. But there is a funny way they operate. Like you see something is in stock, and if you choose 2 day delivery you would get in 2 days flat, But when you go for standard or the free shipping it wont be shipped for 3 days. I always wondered if they have the stock and the order, why not ship them. Anyway may be they want people to go for the 2 day ship. Anyways, now when it comes for delivery you see it can take 5-9 days from shipping. So you get an item shipped mail on 10th then you expect it on 15th.
Once I checked my mail and the item was shipping from Bell,CA. In terms of package delivery its like next door :). but guess what it took its own sweet time to arrive in 5 days. As I was wondering whats happenign, I was checking the tracking on usps and amazon both. Although Amazon said item is shipped, usps said no detail available for whole 3 days and then it had some update. So I thought amazon guys are cheating.
It happened 2-3 time, I think I had to cancel one order too.
When it happened with an UPS order I could figure out what was hapening. for those 3 days UPS showed status as Billing Info received, and explained that this means The shipping label has been printed but the package is still not with UPS.
Now if you have shipped with UPS/Fedex and used the print at home option you know, that it means they just paid for shipping and printed the label (or stored locally). Now they are not going to ship that for next 3 days, the shipping label would be for 13th I guess. And on 13th they send it to UPS and 15th I get it.
so no matter from where the item is coming it would surely take its designated 5-9 days to come to you.
this is how you cheat and stay politically correct :)
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