Issues with Amazon

Rene T

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Anyone notice any issues with the service from Amazon because of the strike? I have a couple of items to return and I have been waiting for about 2 hours to get a E-mail with the USPS bar code and I still didn’t receive them
 
Anyone notice any issues with the service from Amazon because of the strike? I have a couple of items to return and I have been waiting for about 2 hours to get a E-mail with the USPS bar code and I still didn’t receive them
The strike involves warehouse/dist. cent. workers. Returns are 99% autogenerated, unless there's an issue and even then they try to steer you to a chatbot, humans are not involved.
 
I do (it appears) have a small Amazon package on the way however it's not urgent.. and it's not here yet.
But as someone pointed out this is the Delivery side.
not Returns. I still see the Trucks every day Sunday included
(I can see the Amazon HUB lockers from my living room)
 
Anyone notice any issues with the service from Amazon because of the strike? I have a couple of items to return and I have been waiting for about 2 hours to get a E-mail with the USPS bar code and I still didn’t receive them
We get the barcode as soon as we initiate the return on Amazon.com. I then take the item to Kohl’s for a hassle free return.
 
Other than slightly longer wait time for deliveries right now, I've not noticed any difference. But, I'm not doing any returns either. Deliveries were surprising fast, sometimes same day. Now, waiting about a week for the deliveries. No biggie, I'm not in a rush for anything. If I need something "that" fast, I'll use a stick-n-brick store but probably pay a little more.
 
That is computer related delays, I'm guessing any strikes have nothing to do with it. Now, shipping delays, yes 2 items of mine got changed from delivery yesterday to delivery tomorrow. Prime seems to have lost it's priority over the years.
 
That is computer related delays, I'm guessing any strikes have nothing to do with it. Now, shipping delays, yes 2 items of mine got changed from delivery yesterday to delivery tomorrow. Prime seems to have lost it's priority over the years.
It is the busiest time of the year for all retail. Meantime, Prime doesn't guarantee when it will be delivered only that you won't have to pay a delivery charge. Some things are 2 day free delivery, but the two day part is not a guarantee. It's also an auto system, meaning it's only as good as the human who may have scanned 3 widgets into locations x, yy, but it was actually 2. The system that promised you 2 day might only know 2 widgets were picked from location x and therefore 1 should be in location yy, when due to the error none are available until the system can get widgets shipped from a regional dist. hub. That might account for a day or two added to your delivery window.
 
I wanted to bring them to UPS and was not getting the response with the barcode. I ended up cancelling that and went with Staples instead. I got these bar codes immediately. All done now
 
That is computer related delays, I'm guessing any strikes have nothing to do with it. Now, shipping delays, yes 2 items of mine got changed from delivery yesterday to delivery tomorrow. Prime seems to have lost it's priority over the years.
Amazon is using some contracted delivery companies. This may be part of the problem. Fedex is the same way.
 
I wanted to bring them to UPS and was not getting the response with the barcode. I ended up cancelling that and went with Staples instead. I got these bar codes immediately. All done now
Sometimes if you choose UPS you have to get a shipping label and box the return yourself so you won't get a QR and you may not notice the box down there where it asks you to select how to send your mailing label. For some reason on certain items where you can just drop it off at Kohls or Whole Foods, etc., you have to box and label it for UPS. Other times it can be dropped at UPS unboxed.
 
Earlier today I ordered a JACO Elite Pro digital tire pressure gauge. (Rated #1 most accurate by a number of sources.) Just now I checked and order status says "We will email you when we have an estimated delivery date." Usually get a ship/delivery date when a product is ordered. I wonder if it has something to do with the Teamster strike.
 
Earlier today I ordered a JACO Elite Pro digital tire pressure gauge. (Rated #1 most accurate by a number of sources.) Just now I checked and order status says "We will email you when we have an estimated delivery date." Usually get a ship/delivery date when a product is ordered. I wonder if it has something to do with the Teamster strike.
I just looked it up and if you ordered the 100 psi model, you have to wait for a email like you said . But if you ordered the 200 psi model, it says you’ll receive it between 1/4 and 1/9
 
Amazon is using some contracted delivery companies. This may be part of the problem. Fedex is the same way.
Amazon routinely uses independent contractors for delivery andvespecially between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Until just this year Amazon was calling it's own delivery drivers contractors, only because they employed them in a type of shell company arrangement where they ( Amazon) could treat them like employees in every way except paying them like employees and providing benefits like regular employees. The NRLB however ruled this year that those drivers are in fact Amazon employees, which now for Amazon is the sticky wicket that when the employees strike or demand fair treatment in the workplace Amazon can't pretend they don't exist.
 
I just looked it up and if you ordered the 100 psi model, you have to wait for a email like you said . But if you ordered the 200 psi model, it says you’ll receive it between 1/4 and 1/9
Got an update later this morning and it said 1/3-1/6. I ordered the 100psi model.
 

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