Amazon shipping delays?

I just heard that Amazon shipping is about 4 weeks, prime or not, starting yesterday.

Yep

a friend found that to be true - something ordered on sat is coming in 3 days with prime, 2 things ordered yesterday with prime show april 19th delivery.

So helpful for the entire world that's sitting at home being told we need to shop online instead of going to brick and mortar stores.

Thoughts?

 

Interesting! I know I have something coming tomorrow that I ordered on Friday.

I just added one prime item to cart and it says "get it free (prime delivery) by april 20th". or I can pay $3.99 and get it by friday march 27th.

So maybe it's possible to get stuff fast still, but prime has become moot?

 

ok I just tried a different prime item (both were full on prime before the weekend), and this one shows free prime delivery by this wednesday, or free next day delivery by tomorrow.

assuming that's true and won't change once you submit order, I wonder why?

 

What do you mean? That could be interpreted a lot of ways

In my case, I'm asking firstly because my wife needs me to order a natural health care product and we are concerned about how long it could take to get here now.

Also I need to order instrument strings (violin in this case) - and yes this isn't my primary job any more (music) but I still get paid work doing remote sessions, and I never had to worry about whether I'd have strings for a session in my past.

Finally, with online ordering becoming the only recommended way to shop soon (they just implemented policeable fines here for not following social distancing rules), groceries could be arriving using shipping systems like this.

 

k, because as I noted in the rest of the message you just replied to, it's for an important item for health, and an item I use for my side business which I'm continuing to work at while I'm at home. It's not about ravioli brands.

Otherwise it's hardly worth creating a thread about.

So back on topic - looking for more experiences from people about this since it is, as per my OP, a real problem since we're rapidly being moved into only being recommended to shop online for everything, not just your favorite ravioli.

I'm legitimately concerned.

 

it does, yea LoL. damn, that seed is planted now!

 

True. However it's a big change in how we do our planning, each of us, in our lives.

Now we need to order at least 1 month in advance, where as before, thanks to paying for prime memberships specifically with delivery timelines in mind to compensate for that prime cost, we could order several days before something is required.

In my wife's case, this affects her migraines very seriously, and she'll be without the treatment for possibly 3 weeks (since original expectation was end of this week for delivery).

Yes, it can be worked around, but not without a rather huge and possibly detrimental delay of several weeks now.

I still want ravioli now though

 

Come to think of it, for the previous week, when I was ordering stuff online with prime and there was an option for next day delivery for free, that option was never working properly and would throw an error in the website when I'd try it. Could be a coincidence...