I don't think this is just a USPS issue. Sunday has become my Prime delivery day. So no matter when I order, they ship around Friday for Sunday delivery.

May be time to cancel Prime. Not sure this is what I signed on for.

If they would put in some amazon lockers here I am sure they would have customers happy to go fetch their package themselves to cut the days off and amazon could cut the post office completely out of the payment loop.
Maybe postal plus or someone like that could start a service to rent us an address in Bryan we could use with Amazon until this blows over.

I placed two separate orders today, and both said they would be delivered on 9/15. That's a week - ridiculous. I'm in 77845. I chatted with Amazon support and complained so they refunded me $12.99 (one month of prime, although I'm on the annual plan.)

My renewal is June 5 ... don't think I'll do it if they are taking a week to get stuff to me.

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Just tried to order some pet treats. Estimated delivery to 77845 - September 19th. I changed the address to a 77802 address that I had some stuff delivered to once, and it changed delivery to Friday 9/11.

What the heck? Are we to believe that the post office at 77845 is stacked to the ceiling with Amazon packages and they aren't sending them anymore until they deliver the ones they've got?

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if you didn't live on the fringes of 77845..

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Nope that's not it. I put an address in for another client that is two blocks from the CS Post office and it still says the 19th. It's gotta be by Zip code.

It's stupid. They need to just go ahead and ship stuff. When they finally bother to throw stuff in a box and ship it, the actual shipping time for the post office, UPS, or the combination is still normal. The slowdown is from Amazon.

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It's stupid. They need to just go ahead and ship stuff. When they finally bother to throw stuff in a box and ship it, the actual shipping time for the post office, UPS, or the combination is still normal. The slowdown is from Amazon.

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That doesn't explain why 77808 is five days faster than 77845. Amazon is going to ship when it needs to ship to get the item to the local PO at the agreed upon time. They aren't perfect but they're a hell of a lot better than USPS. If you're experiencing a five day delay before it leaves Amazon I'm going to assume it's because USPS has asked for that delay. Amazon didn't suddenly forget how to ship to College Station, TX but remember how to ship to Bryan, TX.

If you saw the article in the Bryan Eagle this morning about mail delivery problems at the Langford facility, something tells me that there is an attitude problem at the CS post office. Sounds like a postwoman has a problem having her temp taken so that she can enter the facility to deliver the mail. She'd rather not do her job. (I'm an old; someone will hopefully help out linking the article if it's wanted).

Not saying that issues at the post office are the source of all the problems, but could very well explain some it. I'm experiencing the same issues the rest of you are so not trying to excuse or defend Amazon.

I talked to a local UPS store franchisee yesterday and he indicated that UPS has also asked Amazon to moderate the volume into CS. Don't know if this is true so called someone I know at a very high level in UPS. This is not there area and could not say if its true but gave their insight from days at the company. They explained that shipping companies are not warehousing companies. They have to have some method of flow control, especially with someone the size of Amazon. When you ship a box the need to get it on a vehicle to the local sorting center so it can begin its journey, but once it leaves the dropoff location it needs to keep moving. It can't sit in the hub it need to come off the vehicle and move directly into something headed to the next location, its not a warehouse. If there is not a place(vehicle) for to go its a problem and also one of the reasons things disappear since they have minimal elastic in the flow process. If there is a location that has constrained resources they try to throttle it at the source not the destination. They indicated they also try to tell people areas are constrained (like disaster areas) to both moderate expectations and also give them a reason to consider alternate methods of getting their item delivered. I don't know what the true Amazon volume is but its huge. A number the local guy gave me might be a clue to how big it really is. He indicated they his store processes between 300 and 500 Amazon Returns a DAY. So how many are delivered to local purchasers and not returned, to me sounds like many 10's of thousands. So it may not just be a USPS issue. They indicated that the zipcode is likely the lowest level they can control by. If there is a flow issue to a zip code be it staffing, weather, or just volume they will ask that the shipper dial it back. We are not privy to the Amazon agreements but they likely include cost reductions for the right to have them control volume when its problematic for the shipping company. So everyone's outrage may be fixing the problem, at least for the shipping company. They are running at near capacity, typically the most profitable case and we are considering other options which may remove the need to add staff and equipment in these uncertain times.
Of course outrage is not good for Amazon but loosing some sales but saving big on shipping contracts may be worth taking that risk. Amazon is adding infrastructure constantly to be in control of their own destiny. Contracted 6 more 767's yesterday. Personally think local lockers would for sure help the situation.
Transpiration and Logistics is BIG and not easy. I don't have an answer, and this is not going to be the last issue with it. The IATA came out and said they expect to need 8000 airliner size aircraft worldwide dedicated to delivering corona virus vaccines if only one dose per person is needed. So the 100 or so that Amazon would not even dent that undertaking.
We need some entrepreneur in Bryan to give is addresses to have our Chinese sourced trinkets from amazon to be delivered to.