This is the time of year that my Amazon Prime membership comes up for renewal. I’ve been buying from Amazon since 2003. That was back when Amazon only sold books. In fact, I didn’t buy anything BUT books from them until 2005. That was also the year they started offering Prime. Back then, the only benefit to Prime was free two day shipping.
Fast forward to today, and Prime gets you different benefits. The largest thing I have noticed from Amazon lately is how their shipping sucks. I place A LOT of orders with Amazon, I would say that I buy more things from Amazon than I do in brick and mortar stores. In the past 30 days, I have placed 35 orders through them. It’s been so convenient, until recently.
It seems as though something has recently changed there. At least once a week, an order gets lost or arrives late. I will frequently order things with a promised delivery, and it won’t arrive for two weeks, if it arrives at all.
I don’t know what’s going on over there.
5 Comments
McChuck · June 16, 2026 at 5:53 am
We in my neighborhood have been having massive problems with Amazon deliveries for the last month. Somebody finally stopped the Amazon delivery driver and asked him what changed. Why are so many (nearly all) packages being delivered to the wrong houses?
Back on May first, Amazon rolled out a new delivery app to their drivers. It shows where each package is to be delivered. The drivers are tracked, and their tablets record and report back to the app where each package went.
None of the delivery locations match up with the addresses on the packages. The driver knows this. The app doesn’t care. His boss will fire him if he delivers to the actual address instead of where the app tells him to.
ghostsniper · June 16, 2026 at 6:22 am
Long time amazon user here, since it was called cdnow in the 90’s. My wife I each have prime and when my subscription comes due I’m going to cancel and get on her account as a guest.
In the past year the delivery service has become drastic. A few other things are difficult too. Did you know that if you are searching for something on amazon and you do not specifically check the “new” box on the left that there is a chance you will be sent a returned/used item? That happened to me last year when I bought a 27″ Spectre monitor and the box was taped funny and part of the mon itor stand was missing. I’ve read about this online.
People buy something to replace their old one, put their old one in the box and “return” it, amazon doesn’t check it and sells it to someone else.
Amazon also sells thousands of pallets of “returned” products to other resellers who then sell them on amazon and there’s no real way to know up front who you are buying from.
All in all, in my experience, amazon has went the way of ebay (who I used a lot in the late 90’s early 00’s, but have’t used them in more than 15 years) with shoddy performance all over the place. In short, I see the day when I no longer deal with amazon at all. Currently I am waiting on a product that I ordered almost 2 months ago.
Lastly, if you click on the words “price history” close to the price, a left screen will pop up showing how the price of the item has fluctuated over the past few months so that you can wait to purchase something at a lower price if you want.
Divemedic · June 16, 2026 at 7:19 am
I stopped using Ebay because it eventually contained more scammers than actual buyers and sellers.
Himself · June 16, 2026 at 7:37 am
I’ve noticed their shipping has become inconsistent as well, which is sad since there’s an amazon distribution center a stones throw from here. Many times its because they are drop shipping something and involve USPS, which is the worst, bar none.
Usually what Amazon does is deliver it across the street. I see the image, then waddle over to pick up my package.
Divemedic · June 16, 2026 at 7:43 am
Most Amazon sellers are online sellers that drop-ship from China. That’s why so many things take 2 weeks to arrive.