Yes, I'd like to pay nearly $200 for shipping of a $30 thing. Or free shipping that will arrive on the same day.
Does "Promise" mean that it's guaranteed to arrive on that day, or is it just a dumb name for a shipping company?
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Fucking hate all of this. With payments online getting easier I’m finding it more convenient to order from small websites again and stop using Amazon. But when it comes to shipping, things are really not getting any faster or easier. While Amazon is always a day behind their promises, they are usually much faster than anyone else.
Logistics are incredibly difficult. The reason Amazon is faster is the same reason they’re bigger, vertical integration. Owning the whole shipping process has huge benefits when shipping speed matter s
Yeah. A naive response would be “isn’t UPS big too?” But the shipping is only part of retail logistics. When you also control the warehousing distribution, and can back-feed logistical availability data all the way to the retail interface to affect what people buy in the first place… you have power that no fleet of trucks alone can overcome.
Can agree with this more they also have warehouses near or in major cities to help cut down travel time where small businesses might ship themselves or use a 3PL with one or two fulfilment points.
Rates are so variable too especially when weights exceed a threshold (usually a pound)
They quit putting packages on planes. They even have Hawaii going by boat now. I see retail rates over $20 to ship ground within the usa. They are claiming shipping will start to take two weeks soon. Yes, be prepared for this. This fucking president and the assholes that voted for them need to be held accountable for this.
Everything about this country is down the shitter and in the pipes. It's insane how calculated the installation of apathy into Americans was/is though. Built up over decades through the actions of dark money and wackos. It permeates even the oldest generations.
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I like to imagine the buyer lives next door to the warehouse, so no matter how they send it - on the back on a tortoise, or fired out of a railgun - it'll arrive same day.
Its not that the merchant is offering these prices to you. They're using another service to get shipping quotes on demand and display them to you transparently. Why they're so high, I can not explain, but it may have to do with global fuel supply and an all time high demand for shipping services.
exactly what it feels like when airlines list "board first" as a perk for paying twice as much
Right?
I like boarding last. Less time I spend in that fucking tube the better.
I like being part of the last 10-15%, but not the last couple of people. The number of times I've been forced to check my backpack because "there's no more room in the overhead compartments" only to step in the plane and find plenty of room in the overhead compartments is too damn high.
That is my number one gripe, how the hell do those overhead compartments run out of space when everyone is limited to one carry on bag, aren’t the planes designed to hold the carrry on of every passenger, it’s usually some dickheads putting their personal item bags up there or the cabin crew not bothering to tell people to shift their bags sideways or actually checking if they are completely full or not
Yep, or I have seen staff heckling an old guy because the tip of his case wheels stuck outside of the sizing device, while some moron with a hockey bag sized duffel walks on and nobody days anything.
One flight was packed and so the host was asking everyone to turn their bag sideways in the overhead as we boarded, and while saying this over and over people still were laying them flat. I said "This must get old, it is like dealing with children." He said, "no it is worse, children listen, these adults don't."
I was on a flight earlier this year where the attendant had to explain repeatedly to the same group of passengers that they may not put their winter coats into the overhead bin and will have to keep it with them. This same flight they had to restart the safety demonstration because someone got up and went to the bathroom during the first playthrough of it
It is weird to me that adults can't follow expectations or even clear instructions
I often say at work, if I followed directions like the employees I support I'd be out of the job
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Priority seating in such a weird way to do it as well.
So you load first class, and then the obvious next move is to go back to front.
I'm sure the first class passengers absolutely love the experience of everybody walking past them. Who wouldn't want that?
I always enjoy silently crop-dusting the first class passengers as I walk by
Perhaps the flight attendant should announce each person like a royal wedding.
- Your name, sir?
- Mike, from the Hawk family
- trumpet noises ALL WELCOME ABOARD MR MIKE HAWK
the obvious next move is to go back to front.
Gotta add in some window-middle-aisle with some staggering between seats to give people room/time to stow bags
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Let's enjoy the last few days of free delivery.
None of those dates have the year on them.
In the year 2026, October 28th is a Wednesday.
So is in 2037.
It was probably vibe coded.
They're fuckken sending an ambulance
Mildly amusing. I ship UPS all the time at work, and always check all the options for the best balance of speed and cost. The number of times the cheapest option is estimated to arrive before a more expensive choice cracks me up. Not always, but way more than I'd expect.
The OPs screenshot could also be a mucked up shipping config. Saw that at work recently, two employees sitting next to each other making labels, one gets $200+ per shipping label the other sub-$30 shipping labels. They did a test of trying to make the exact same label and got different rates so they finally said "okay time to talk to Fedex about fixing this..." Only after shipping a few hundred items at the exhorbanant rates was this fully figured out...
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eBay's shipping options often look like this for US to Canada items. A book will be $60 shipping but a larger heavier item is $25.
Overnight shipping is expensive
And useless where I live. Next Day Air is a mere week away.
I think that this is just a shipping cost function that Shopify provides to shops. I don't think that the seller added these options. Its just showing different options that they have access to in their system. No human has looked at these options and decided that they make sense. The store probably doesn't even know.
I hate how shopify has taken over internet commerce. I refuse to buy from anywhere that uses it, but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
Unfortunately there's a lot of small businesses out there that rely on Shopify, it stinks but I have been forced to use them a few times.
Yeah, same. Especially for more niche things. But I alwaysvlook for alternatives still.
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Silly yes, but I've had to do this at my job before to get the "guaranteed" delivery by X date. Does it work? Sometimes
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The 2 day air is only $15 more, I think you should go for it
Having worked in the shipping industry the “Promise” branding everywhere is hilarious to me. Even “guaranteed” shipping doesn’t mean shit — the industry will do nothing but lead you on until the final moment when you’re truly just fucked.
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