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Originally Posted by RouseysMom
Hello fellow Villagers! For years Amazon Prime has conditioned me to expect whatever my little heart desires on my doorstep in 48 hours. I snowbird myself
Down to my new home in Mallory in early November. Nothing from the big A comes in two days!
In Ohio, Chicago, Dallas and Minnesota I got deliveries in two days or less. Now it’s is 3-7 days. I continue to pay my prime dues. Why has Amazon forsaken The Villages? I fully and 1000% respect USPS and UPS and FedEx and their amazing logistics. But why nothing faster in our little
Bubble?
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It's not The Villages.
It's UPS/Fedex and USPS.
The volume of packages they moved in the last 45 days is insane. I am still working for a few more months and my company ships millions of packages a year, mostly through UPS. We got notices in early December that no deliveries were guaranteed. In fact, we were told that even UPS red packages, highest priority shipped after the 19th would not be guaranteed by Christmas.
We also do USPS mailings that include samples, those go out 3rd class. USPS told us that nothing after Dec 1 was going to move, so we held everything back, still are in fact. What you see in this picture, wrapped up in plastic in the lower right, is probably 300,000 customer samples that are being held because USPS can't move them.
This situation should clear up in the next 30 days or so, but some USPS parcels from mid December have yet to be delivered.
1st class mail is almost caught up now.
In 2019 when we were outfitting our Villa, I was having no issues with 2nd day from Prime.
Everyone staying home in the Pandemic really tossed a spanner into the works.