Meh-athon day shipping faster than amazon prime day shipping

seraphimcaduto thought this was worth mentioning said Tue, Jul 18th 2017 at 8:01pm ET

I thought I’d share my meh-athon story:

The item I bought during the meh-athon day madness arrived before, not one, but two amazon prime day items with prime shipping. Considering how long it usually takes to get items from meh and how amazon totes their shipping as “so fast”, the irony was not lost on me. No fukos for me but I did get my meh-athon day items faster than my prime day items, so I guess I won? Don’t know if that’s pathetic for amazon or great for meh.

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communist said Tue, Jul 18th 2017 at 8:05pm ET:

if the amazon prime items were 2 day delivery and didnt arrive in 2 days, you can bug amazon customer service and they give you extra days on your prime membership

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awk said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 12:22am ET:

My Amazon Prime items were delivered the next day.

It would’ve been cool if they were delivered to my house but LaserShip isn’t named CorrectHouseShip now is it smart guy?

/giphy more like laser SHIT

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- @awk LaserShip isn’t even worth it, they lie for same day delivery, mark package as delivered and deliver the next day or even the day after that. I gave up on choosing one or same day shipping because I don’t want to give them more business. Wish Amazon had a better partner in the area.
  
  dzieciom said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 9:52am ET
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lordbowen said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 2:22am ET:

I haven’t even gotten a shipping notice yet for my Meh-rathon order, so you’re WAY ahead of me.

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ruouttaurmind said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 2:26am ET:

I received some Prime Day items as quickly as Wednesday. My Woot-off order came on Monday, as did some of my Meh-off order.

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snapster said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 9:55am ET:

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- @snapster arrrghhh ?
  
  capguncowboy said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 10:24am ET
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- /giphy r
  
  darksaber99999 said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 1:55pm ET
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ekw said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 10:08am ET:

oddly (to me) every single one of my Meh-rathon orders came in a separate box.
which could not have been cost efficient.

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- @ekw it was cost efficient in its use of development and warehouse resources. Not so much on packaging and freight costs. It’s a 1.0 version feature that might exist a while.
  
  snapster said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 10:38am ET
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- @snapster since I don’t know what that means, I can’t argue with you.
  
  ekw said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 1:27pm ET
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- @ekw it means we didn’t spend any development resources to consolidate orders going to the same address or walk around the warehouse adding these items to a single box. Batch shipping each item is more efficient on our time, at the cost of extra shipping and packaging. We should do what you suggest but it’ll be a while.
  
  snapster said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 2:36pm ET
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- @snapster ah. I understand that.
  
  I also know that everything is simple when you don’t understand it.
  so, of course, it seems simple to “just do it the other way”.
  but if you were to ask me how, I would not have the slightest idea.
  actually, I’d have two or three ideas, but none of them would work.
  
  ekw said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 7:11pm ET
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- @snapster A good number of items shipping from Woot proper is still like this, hence getting like 50 packages for all my randoms. Different size, different package. Different brand, different package. Different type, different package.
  
  @ekw
  - The “normal” way: multiple items, one shipment. Worker roams from aisle to aisle picking the items into a cart. Cart goes back to packaging station where they’re boxed up. Box sizes will vary from order to order, and additional dunnage may be necessary due to odd package sizes. Time needed per order is measured by minutes. Savings can be had in freight, but because the boxes vary in sizes, it takes additional to load and palletize for shipping.
  - The mediocre way: items are individually shipped. Very little time is needed to grab the items. No need for carting; the items can go right into the box. The boxes may only have to vary if the quantity ordered varies. Time needed per order is measured by seconds. Additional freight costs, but handling time is also greatly diminished since most packages will be uniform in size.
  narfcake said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 7:25pm ET
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f00l said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 10:47am ET:

All my random t-shirts are brown.

Where’s the “random” part?

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- @f00l that is an outcome which could occur randomly.
  
  ekw said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 1:26pm ET
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- @f00l you got a brown flush
  
  snapster said Wed, Jul 19th 2017 at 2:37pm ET
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