The Amazon Prime membership has several aspects, but none more iconic IMO and used more than it's 1 and 2 day free delivery service.
I'm a longtime member because it's too good to pass up, but lately it seems that it's been declining in efficacy. I must say also that I use the other Prime services very little.
IMO (BTW, IMHO signifies that the writer is full of self importance because the humble people which possess that personality trait, which I feel is a positive one, don't wear it on their sleeve like that because they are humble people) and to my experience, though I haven't written anything down and analyzed it, now and over the last few months Amazon has been quietly, stealthily ratcheting down it vaunted Prime delivery service, likely because (according to one report) it costs Amazon $80 billion a year to subsidize the fPrime "free" delivery service, which is A LOT for a company that views it's employees organizing to form a union is the Apocalypse and it's employees are worked so hard and fast that they have nervous breakdowns and have to carry around bottles to piss in & God knows what to defecate in probably, IDK.
The report, from I Forget Where also said that the Prime Delivery subsidy comes ion large part from amazons onerous terms on it's third arty sellers. I of those terms is that to sell on Amazon at a certain tier they have to offer Prime free shipping AND they cannot jack up the price of the good a penny to compensate for the loss on shipping. In fact, and I knew this all ready, the price of the good is dictated by Amazon and is often sold below cost once the free shipping is included.
And there are several other ways that Amazon gouges it's sellers that I forget, in order to keep the lowest prices and get them, mpt Amazon to subsidize the Prime free shipping to the tune of $80 billion a year while the US Government (you and I, the taxpayers) subsidizes Bezos lavish lifestyle when neither he nor his company pays any income taxes year in and year out and cries to Congress and gets awarded $10 billion runner up prize (what his loosing bid was) for losing the governments missle contract to SpaceX.
WHAT? Don't tell me you thought (like I did) that Prime free shipping is paid for by your annual membership or if you knew better, than that Amazon is footing the $80 billion annually out of the goodness of it's heart!
Anyway, to my point: it is lately my personal experience and opinion,as an Amazon Prime member who gets almost daily shipments to my house, that Amazon is watering down the service to save some of that $80 billion without telling anybody, probably not even the Amazon "partners" footing the bill for it.
My experience with the Prime Free Shipping lately is that very few of my shipments come the next day anymore, or the day after that or even the day after that even though when I ordered them, the order page said they would. the first time I noticed this was when a Prime "same day delivery" a couple months ago, CAME THREE DAYS LATER.I have also caught them delivering an item a day later than scheduled on my order page just to combine it with one that I had ordered weeks before that was due a day later than the one that was supposed to be delivered the day before without my permission. The rest of my experience with this is just in the back of my mind and a "feeling" if you will that I keep buying stuff that has 1 and 2 day deliveries on the item page that NEVER come in the specified time period anymore.
other than that, it seems that what is happening is that when I order something IT SAYS next day or 2 day delivery and then doesn't come and when I look opn the orders page cuz I'm wondering wtf the something is and was sure that it said next day delivery, I find that the date has been pushed off to correspond with the day it does get delivered, sometimes more than once.
And my best guess is that this is happening and NOBODY especially the MSM that depends upon Amazon advertisement will NEVER publicize it IF they find out about it or even know about it and Bezos will get away with YET ANOTHER ripoff of the planet as will Musk, Gates and all the other New Age Robber Baron patrons of the United Coprorate States of America.
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