Amazon Adds 6 More Cities To Same-Day Deliveries

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Good news! You can now get same day delivery from Amazon if you live in Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C..

As of Wednesday, consumers in Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. can place a same-day delivery order for any one of more than 1 million products through Amazon's "Get it Today" feature. As long as you order any eligible item by a certain time, usually noon or 1pm depending on the city, you'll get it at your doorstep by 9PM local time.
 
Man, they are just raping any advantage brick and mortar stores had.
 
This is just fricking awesome! Hope they bring it to FL sometime soon. The ability to order stuff from my PC and not have to deal with real human beings has been priceless.
 
Indeed it has!! Buying computer hardware especially (without having some idiot pretend he knows more than me about what I'm doing.)
 
How does this work? I mean do they have a warehouse in these cities?

Yes, and when you're looking at shipping options it will tell you whether same day is available for the item.
 
How does this work? I mean do they have a warehouse in these cities?

Yes, and when you're looking at shipping options it will tell you whether same day is available for the item. I live in Seattle though, so I guess it's a bit of a given that they have warehouses here.
 
I've worked @ Amazon going on two years now in November. Its not really a job I would recommend to anyone unless its the only job you could get until you could find something better. Yes they have good benefits, I have yet to pay for a Doctor visit or Lab work. But its really hard on your body standing in one area packing items for 10 hours straight. Most breaks are 15 mins, it usually takes 5 min to get to the break room and 5 min to get back so you only get to sit for 5 min. Don't dare be a half min late or get written up. Then they want you to pack 56 items every 15 mins. That is 224 items an hour or 2,240 items a day. I've seen so many people with disabilities get fire because they can't make rate, I don't know how Amazon gets away with it, I thought people with disabilities had some protection by law. Then there are the people who pack over 3,000 items a day and don't get any kind of reward for the extra effort. I could go on but this post is getting to long and whiny and who cares any way as long as you get your package on time.
 
You know I am thankful for your post and this incite, I order tons of shit from amazon and I am thankful for these people. My job is different but it is also a thankless shitty job LOL so I know how you feel.
 
I've seen so many people with disabilities get fire because they can't make rate, I don't know how Amazon gets away with it, I thought people with disabilities had some protection by law. Then there are the people who pack over 3,000 items a day and don't get any kind of reward for the extra effort. I could go on but this post is getting to long and whiny and who cares any way as long as you get your package on time.

When I worked in a warehouse. The work schedule was 2 weeks on 2 weeks off + new round of hires. If you did not perform well you would not be called back after your two week layoff. Although I since I was one of their best workers I never even had the 2 weeks off.
 
I wonder if 'same day" means the same day that they finally decide to stop sitting on your order. I live in Redmond, and I've had Seattle warehouse stuff take up to a week with super saver shipping.

Amazon is great, but lately they've just become the place for me to read reviews on something I'll probably end up buying somewhere else.
 
I assume if you can get same day shipments (god please don't ship via their lasership carrier...) you also now pay tax on your order. I always looked at tax = shipping when making a decision on something I could get local or via amazon.
 
Amazon charges TAX on every order "Sold By" Amazon, but items "Fulfilled By", sold by another person or company on Amazon, is not TAXed.
 
Brick and mortar stores are so useless now; it seems like none of them have what you need. I recently bought a bike and was looking for simple things like box and pedal wrench combos, but there didn't seem to be a single store in my area that sold them. I ended up buying everything I needed off Amazon.
 
I've worked @ Amazon going on two years now in November. Its not really a job I would recommend to anyone unless its the only job you could get until you could find something better. Yes they have good benefits, I have yet to pay for a Doctor visit or Lab work. But its really hard on your body standing in one area packing items for 10 hours straight. Most breaks are 15 mins, it usually takes 5 min to get to the break room and 5 min to get back so you only get to sit for 5 min. Don't dare be a half min late or get written up. Then they want you to pack 56 items every 15 mins. That is 224 items an hour or 2,240 items a day. I've seen so many people with disabilities get fire because they can't make rate, I don't know how Amazon gets away with it, I thought people with disabilities had some protection by law. Then there are the people who pack over 3,000 items a day and don't get any kind of reward for the extra effort. I could go on but this post is getting to long and whiny and who cares any way as long as you get your package on time.

no worries, we will have you all replaced by robots soon. :)
 
I've worked @ Amazon going on two years now in November. Its not really a job I would recommend to anyone unless its the only job you could get until you could find something better. Yes they have good benefits, I have yet to pay for a Doctor visit or Lab work. But its really hard on your body standing in one area packing items for 10 hours straight. Most breaks are 15 mins, it usually takes 5 min to get to the break room and 5 min to get back so you only get to sit for 5 min. Don't dare be a half min late or get written up. Then they want you to pack 56 items every 15 mins. That is 224 items an hour or 2,240 items a day. I've seen so many people with disabilities get fire because they can't make rate, I don't know how Amazon gets away with it, I thought people with disabilities had some protection by law. Then there are the people who pack over 3,000 items a day and don't get any kind of reward for the extra effort. I could go on but this post is getting to long and whiny and who cares any way as long as you get your package on time.

Are you the reason my glassware arrives at my doorstep with "some assembly required"? Less breaks moar packing.
 
How does this work? I mean do they have a warehouse in these cities?

That's exactly what they do, then they use a courier service in metropolitan areas to do the deliveries. I decided to try this out in New York City just last week. It DIDN'T arrive that evening. Yes... The catch is that deliveries are made up until 9PM. So here I was waiting for something I was going use the following day (was flying out to vegas) all the way until 9PM, then got something called "EVENT500" updated on shipping status at 11PM.

I had to write them that I was leaving at noon the next day and they sent someone over to my shipping address the next morning. Bottom line? I'd just simply rather it be UPS or Fedex doing the shipping. In this case I wouldn't have minded paying $25 for next day air.

What I got was amazon prime, with shoddy courier service and inconvenient delivery hours for an additional $3.99. hahahahah.

I'm sure it'll get better in the future, but for New York City I just wish they'd still offer the option to use a real logistics company like UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc.
 
I wonder if 'same day" means the same day that they finally decide to stop sitting on your order. I live in Redmond, and I've had Seattle warehouse stuff take up to a week with super saver shipping.

Amazon is great, but lately they've just become the place for me to read reviews on something I'll probably end up buying somewhere else.

I would say the same thing about newegg
 
Man, they are just raping any advantage brick and mortar stores had.

The only advantage B&M stores had was for those who just had to finger what they want to buy before they purchase it.

Not made a major purchase at a B&M locally in YEARS myself.

I even buy all auto parts including car batteries online. Fraction of the cost, better choices of quality parts too.
 
I always looked at tax = shipping when making a decision on something I could get local or via amazon.

If you have Prime, the prices are fairly reasonable for this service. I do agree though, and have looked at it this way in the past. However, this makes it so I don't have to print an ad, find it on my phone or whatever, and haul it in to a local shop and try to get them to match an Amazon price. I've had varying degrees of success with local matching in the past. This saves that step, and still gets the price under what most local shops will do. (at least for the sorts of things I've tried it with like PC hardware) I live exactly 5 minutes from a Fry's here, and to not have to go in there, deal with sales staff, try to get a price matched, argue over whether what I want is what I want (not always but it happens sometimes) and run the risk of getting something that they shoved back in a box after being abused somehow and selling it new... Paying that extra couple of $ is just lovely. I haven't run into the problem that Wrecked Em mentioned yet.
 
Man, they are just raping any advantage brick and mortar stores had.

Not really. Even prime members have to pay $6.00 to get the item today, and I know in Dallas you have to pay sales tax. If BBY has the product in stock, they'll price match Amazon and you'll get it faster. You'll probably pass up at least one BBY and maybe a Fry's or 2 on your way home from work.

Now if you don't need it by 9pm that day, regular prime will arrive the next day, because the item is shipped from a local warehouse, well unless Amazon sits on the shipment for 24 hours. Then again, if Amazon didn't sit on shipments, non prime would get it the next day too.

I buy a decent amount from Amazon, but this only makes sense if it's a product not available at the local store or you're ordering a shitload of things (most of which aren't available locally and can't be shipped to a local store for free).

I'm underwhelmed.
 
Indianapolis must have been a test bed for the same day shipping; I had several items shipped same day a couple of years ago, the last being a GTX 680 in 2012.
 
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