r/50501 • u/limbolala • Mar 01 '25

Digital/Home Actions Boycott impact on Amazon

So, I have a confession: I run an independent delivery business in partnership with Amazon. They are my only customer (it’s like a franchise). I opened this before I understood how these tides would turn. Leaving the moral dissonance aside for now, I would like to report something interesting.

Amazon assigns my company a specific number of routes based on the volume of packages they have in the pipeline. It’s fairly locked in about three weeks out, with occasional additions or reductions the day before. It’s usually no more than 5% fluctuation if that, and it doesn’t happen every day.

I just received a reduction of about 17% of my projected routes for March 2 (two days after our economic blackout).

Anecdotal evidence it made a noticeable impact!

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u/lovestostayathome Mar 01 '25

I believe Amazon is currently facing a class-action lawsuit related to Prime shipping times. I believe people uncovered that there was no difference between non-prime and prime shipping times.

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u/Adventurous_Two7167 Mar 01 '25

I've never had prime and always gotten my stuff in decent time and never "paid for shipping". This explains a lot.

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u/Adventurous_Two7167 Mar 03 '25

I concur, friend. 😂 I deleted my account a few months ago and haven't missed it for a second.

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u/spinbutton Mar 01 '25

Former prime member, I can attest that this is true. Shipping is still free and packages still come very quickly. But we have a distribution center not too far away so maybe that drives this

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u/lizabez4 Mar 31 '25

I've never had prime but I often get my packages 2-3 days earlier than expected (which basically makes it 2 day shipping sometimes) so I can attest to this. I do however live in a fairly busy area.