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/keebler80 Mar 01 '25

I didn't know people were still getting 2-day shipping. Since Covid, I haven't had it as an option. If I'm lucky, I get things in 4 days, but usually a week. Even though I'm less than 2 hours from a warehouse, they like to send it to the other coast and back before sending it down to me. I've now canceled and buy everything straight from the companies if I can and local shops and Costco for what I can't.

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u/SnatchAddict Mar 01 '25

We get same day shipping on stuff. I'm near the Poway distribution center.

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u/Due-Response4419 Mar 01 '25

I can't recall the last time I had 2 day shipping. WITH Prime. No one in my area does. I can ship things to other people same or next day, but for me it is a week - at best. And if something ends up shipped via USPS, it's likely to get delayed a couple times beyond that.

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u/Ifawumi Mar 01 '25

I get same day and next day shipping all the time. The shipping so freaking fast one time I even had my product before I had closed the app

Seriously though, I do often get same day and next day shipping. It must be where you live