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.
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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.