"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message
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On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 6:57:57 PM UTC-5, Jim Joyce wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:00:37 -0500, Arthur Conan Doyle
wrote:
Frank "frank wrote:

Prime give access to TV and other stuff besides free shipping. I'm not
interested either and much prefer using Walmart who ships practically
free on anything. If you only buy small items, they will let you add
additional small items until you reach the free shipping level. My wife
bought little things like saccharine tablets, a hair net and seeds and
got free shipping.

You don't have to have Prime to get free shipping from Amazon. Just like
Walmart, if your order exceeds $25 there's a free option. What Prime was
offering pre-Covid was free same/one/two day shipping. That seems to
slowly
coming back.
When I lived in San Antonio, just a few miles from an Amazon warehouse, I
could always tell when an item would ship from that warehouse because one
of the options was 1-hour delivery, even on Sundays. One hour delivery
usually meant 20-30 minutes, but one time a lady drove up in her minivan,
15 minutes after I ordered, and handed me my item. It all sounds very
efficient, but people hate the working conditions and tend to burn out.

I've seen quite a few articles lately about workers having to pee on
the run.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amazon-apologizes-for-snarky-tweet-admits-its-drivers-pee-in-bottles/ar-BB1fgTkM

Beats punching a hole in your parcel and ****ing in there.