Would You Rely on Amazon as a Shipping Carrier?

by: Lisa

well, what is their price point? what is their delivery time frame? do they have features or benefits usps or ups doesn't offer?

by: RL15

depends on price / delivery time frame

but nothing to detroit, amazon delivery trucks are having a big issue being carjacked

by: GetAGrip

Bought two dvds one from amazon and the other from greedbay. Amazon delivered the next morning. Four days after purchase the seller on greedbay still hasn't mailed the item. As a seller I mail hundreds of packages a week. I don't care what the post office says about delivery day its always 1- 6 days later including packages that are sent to an address in my small town. My answer is yes as the cost will like always be paid for by the buyer.

by: glasspackaging

For local area perhaps…. But if it is going Amazon warehouse to warehouse as their transfer hubs… no way… they mishandle and have issues with FBA (not huge, but would you want to be one?) ..
We have great home delivery from them… we also have 3 warehouses within an hour … would NEVER trust it outside our local area.

by: AddyUp

Over this side of the pond Amazon are the couriers who just toss the parcel on your doorstep and drive off. In some areas when there has been an Amazon delivery, people go out and check their cars. After being on the receiving end of an Amazon hit and run driver I can understand that.

by: vintagejewelryrepair

At one time I would have said yes without hesitation.  However, over the course of the last year or two, even, Amazon's shipping has gotten steadily worse.  Things that are purchased and say they will arrive by "x" date, are constantly moved back to the next day and then the day after that.  I may get an email at 9 PM saying my order will arrive by 10 PM the following day.  Then I will get another one around 9 PM that following day and it says the same thing!  Things are lost, shipping is canceled for no reason after the item has been in transit for 2 days already, and Prime 2-day shipping means absolutely nothing anymore.  I'm not sure what happened to Amazon, but it's not what it used to be.  Having said that, it's never a bad thing to add competition to USPS, UPS, and Fedex.

by: spooky

on a side note: How does UPS possible compete when they pay a Teamsters wage (quite high payroll) and Fed-Ex pays a fraction of that in non-union wages? I assume Amazon pays little in comparison to UPS

by: Disgruntled_Seller

Amazon is consistently efficient until something happens, then it is a bit harder to work through. And it is a little too early to tell, but one cannot associate their performance based on their own warehouse fulfillment vs just a parcel transit operation. The last delivery segment and how it is handled and by whom will be important. Amazon is already in the business of competing with forces such as ShippingEasy, Shipstation, eBay's shipping, etc with their Veeqo activity. We have used it since startup and it performs fairly flawlessly across eBay, Etsy, Amazon, Shopify and others and does inventory sync as well although it is still a little rough around the edges and needs some refinement in certain areas. Since Amazon, comparing to USPS anyway, is a business oriented model whereas USPS is a do as little work as possible gov operation I would suspect a Amazon model can and will create quite a disruption to USPS and a few others. I would try it as long as it was accepted by the sales venues as a legitimate delivery venue like the other carriers.

by: bd greatbuys

in 1 year from succeeding that way- amazon will force all 3ps to do so - just got more control to terrorizing 3ps

by: Whatever

I don't rely on Amazon for anything selling or buying -