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Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - C(-)ris - 12-13-2020
I've been noticing that my USPS packages from Amazon don't follow USPSs standard time in transit guidelines. Sometimes the packages show up faster than they should and sometimes slower, but they always come on the day Amazon says they should. For example a priority mail should take 1 day from the MN warehouse to me regardless of class of mail. I had one that took 2 days and one that took 3 days recently, both arrived on the day advertised by Amazon, but it is odd that the PO took longer to deliver them than it should have. I also had packages show up from the west coast in 2 days, which according to USPS they can only do it in 3 days, no way to go faster. Yet somehow it happens for Amazon packages, and again, it is delivered on the day Amazon said it would be before ordering so it isn't a fluke that it was delivered early.
Re: Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - SDGuy - 12-13-2020
C(-)ris wrote:
I've been noticing that my USPS packages from Amazon don't follow USPSs standard time in transit guidelines...
Well - the one (current) example I have is for a paperback book I ordered...there definitely seems to be something out-of-the-ordinary about the trek it is on (I'm in San Diego):
Re: Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - DP - 12-13-2020
For example a priority mail should take 1 day from the MN warehouse to me regardless of class of mail. I had one that took 2 days and one that took 3 days recently
Look carefully at the fine print about Priority Mail sent on it's own. I believe they say "post office to post office", not "from sender to your door".
Amazon will be different of course as they have a contract with USPS but that also makes me wonder if regular mail isn't pushed aside to fulfill the contracts with Amazon-because the USPS will make a little more money.
Re: Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - macphanatic - 12-13-2020
Yes. They reportedly pay significantly less than anyone else. Apparently, it's one of the major reasons that the USPS isn't doing well financially.
Re: Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - RAMd®d - 12-13-2020
AMZ does have a contract with the USPS, as it does with UPS.
I have no idea what that entails.
Certainly it includes rate agreements, and the ability for USPS personnel to deliver packages to AMZ lockers.
I highly doubt that the USPS is losing money on AMZ, as package delivery is probably the single biggest money maker for them.
The biggest problems for the USPS of late are the FUD that comes from 1600 Penn Ave, the Board of Postal Governors, and the PMG.
Let's not forget the USPS still has to pre-fund retiree health care.
Re: Does Amazon have special agreement with USPS? - Carnos Jax - 12-14-2020
macphanatic wrote:
Yes. They reportedly pay significantly less than anyone else. Apparently, it's one of the major reasons that the USPS isn't doing well financially.
I thought the USPS actually makes profit on packages it delivers for Amazon?
RAMd®d wrote:
I highly doubt that the USPS is losing money on AMZ, as package delivery is probably the single biggest money maker for them.
That's my understanding as well.