Atlantic Canadians - Amazon Prime Discussion

nico29 wrote: ↑ Agreed, although it's never really been a big issue for me, it's definitely annoying. We also don't order a lot of stuff from Amazon now anyways so will likely cancel prime soon. On the other hand, I find other retailers and their standard shipping to be almost or as fast as prime, especially Costco online orders, even to rural NB.
Amazon deliveries are usually at least 3 days after the order is placed with prime.

JustinL733617 wrote: ↑ I am in a decent size city out west and most orders in the last 6 months are taking 3-6 days typically, I dumped Prime as nothing was getting here in the time frame they promised, they seem to have too much volume now and not enough capacity to meet their own promises. Prime Video was no use for me, not worth keeping Prime for it.

rdiamond1 wrote: ↑ I wish i could actually add time if it made the transportation more efficient - or to wait and attach to another order.

MrManager wrote: ↑
I agree. The free shipping that other online stores have come just as fast as Prime, which you have to pay for.

I agree, they've outgrown their logistics capacity to continue delivering the promise of 2 day shipping.

JustinL733617 wrote: ↑I am in a decent size city out west and most orders in the last 6 months are taking 3-6 days typically, I dumped Prime as nothing was getting here in the time frame they promised, they seem to have too much volume now and not enough capacity to meet their own promises. Prime Video was no use for me, not worth keeping Prime for it.

death_hawk wrote: ↑ Me too. There's often something small I want, but don't really need immediately.
It'd be nice to "buy" it and then have it held for shipping until a later date.
Envelopes are pretty small but it's still kind of a waste of packaging and a delivery for an $8 item.


While I'm not in Atlantic Canada, I've never had any other retailer come even close in terms of shipping times.

I have the exact opposite experience, but to be fair I have a couple warehouses locally here in Vancouver.
You're obviously not that lucky, but practically 100% of my packages have come in 2 days, and quite oftentimes 1 day.

How remote are you? Are you in Atlantic Canada but like a major city?
If it's a very small town I could see how it would take longer than 2 days.

MrManager wrote: ↑ I live in the heart of Halifax a block away from a major Canada Post sorting facility. It's not the shipping times thats slowing things down, it's how long it takes it to BEGIN shipping. The Amazon warehouse is the holdup usually.

death_hawk wrote: ↑ Yeah I'd actually use the executive email in this case. There's something obviously wrong.
Out of nearly 1000 orders there's been a literal handful that haven't met the estimated dates (2 days or less).
Obviously if something is out of stock it takes longer, but I'm talking about in stock items.

MrManager wrote: ↑ Me and others have talked to them and they stated that 2- day shipping is the guarantee for when it leaves the warehouse not from when its ordered, which is the catch.