It seems like such a huge jump. How do you cut your industry leading delivery times in half? It’s one thing to send a package in 1 day, it seems crazy to ship a random assortment of 1 million packages all in 1 day.
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It really comes down to where they have warehouses . Storing the items close to where people are so that when something gets ordered it’s really just gonna ship from somewhere close by. Amazon has been devloping their network of warehouses aka the fulfillment centers specifically for this purpose.
Priority shipping. Amazon prime product is sorted as soon as it arrives in a facility and if local is sent out for delivery by truck by the morning or if it’s interstate it gets sorted and goes directly on a plane and arrives at destination within a few hours and is sorted and ready for delivery by morning.
Source: I work in a parcel distribution centre.
I have prime now which means that on some products have 2 hour shipping. All the products that have next day delivery are stored in large fufillment centres and dispatched from that location.
Sometimes the carrier will mark packages delivered, to meet quotas, when they aren’t and they show up a few days latter.
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