Amazon Delivered in 14 Hours. Why?
Yesterday afternoon I ordered an item on Amazon. Fast shipping with a delivery date/time this morning was offered for free through Prime. As there seemed to be no point to waiting longer, and in some cases literally paying to wait longer, I took the free-fast delivery. Indeed the package arrived at my doorstep this morning at 8am... just 14 hours after I completed the order last night.
This leaves me wondering why. Why did Amazon offer such fast shipping on this item?
I know that likely a big part of the answer is not "why" by how. How it got here fast is apparently that it came from nearby. The shipping records don't indicate where the Amazon warehouse was, but an email notification at 2:27am said that it had left the warehouse, and a shipping record timestamp at 4:51am said it had arrived at the carrier's facility ~10 miles away from me.
But still, there seems to have been some intentionality on Amazon's part to expediting this shipping. Nearly everything I've gotten delivered by Amazon (I mean specifically via their in-house delivery service) for the past several years has arrived between 6-8pm. Basically we're near the end of the drivers' route. But this time the delivery left the carrier facility at 6:33am- which is about when 8pm arrivals go out on a truck, too- and landed on my doorstep at 8am. Apparently this order was given priority.
This wasn't a big order, BTW. It wasn't like, "Oooh, this guy's buying thousands of dollars of stuff, let's treat him right!" I ordered a small item that cost under $30 all-in. And ironically I didn't even care if this one came fast. It's a consumable item I use regularly. I ordered the refill 2-3 weeks before my current supply runs out- because, in the past, it's occasionally taken 7-10 days to ship. Except this time, when I was in no rush, it's like Amazon moved heaven and earth to deliver in 14 hours.
This leaves me wondering why. Why did Amazon offer such fast shipping on this item?
I know that likely a big part of the answer is not "why" by how. How it got here fast is apparently that it came from nearby. The shipping records don't indicate where the Amazon warehouse was, but an email notification at 2:27am said that it had left the warehouse, and a shipping record timestamp at 4:51am said it had arrived at the carrier's facility ~10 miles away from me.
But still, there seems to have been some intentionality on Amazon's part to expediting this shipping. Nearly everything I've gotten delivered by Amazon (I mean specifically via their in-house delivery service) for the past several years has arrived between 6-8pm. Basically we're near the end of the drivers' route. But this time the delivery left the carrier facility at 6:33am- which is about when 8pm arrivals go out on a truck, too- and landed on my doorstep at 8am. Apparently this order was given priority.
This wasn't a big order, BTW. It wasn't like, "Oooh, this guy's buying thousands of dollars of stuff, let's treat him right!" I ordered a small item that cost under $30 all-in. And ironically I didn't even care if this one came fast. It's a consumable item I use regularly. I ordered the refill 2-3 weeks before my current supply runs out- because, in the past, it's occasionally taken 7-10 days to ship. Except this time, when I was in no rush, it's like Amazon moved heaven and earth to deliver in 14 hours.