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Amazon ships via horse and buggy now?

Friday, September 30, 2005 10:13 AM

I preordered a book on Amazon a few weeks ago, and it finally shipped this week.  I went to check the delivery status, and was shocked to see that apparently delivery is going to take about two months!  I'm not quite sure how it can possibly take that long, but I guess if they just leave the package laying around, then every so often send it on to the next point they can do it.  Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get it before December!

 

 

Update: The order arrived on Monday (10/3).  So much for their estimate!




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# re: Amazon ships via horse and buggy now?

Hi
I am in India.I bought a book from Amazon on August 2005.I got the book only in October 2005
It seems that Amazon ships trhough the US post office and that is the reason for the delay.
10/6/2005 11:44 AM | Ramesh

# re: Amazon ships via horse and buggy now?

That's much worse than my delivery ended up being! They don't have an Amazon India site? 10/11/2005 8:56 PM | Arian

# re: Amazon ships via horse and buggy now?

it's called book rate! It's a non-priority ground mail (overseas is sent sometimes by sea, sometimes by air) that can often take weeks or months to reach its destination. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0110440.html 10/25/2005 9:13 PM | Joe S



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