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Yea, not gonna happen. Amazon uses USPS for most packages because of the associated cost savings. Of the 3 major shipping carriers, USPS is the cheapest for small-medium packages which is the majority of most stuff bought. They then pass that savings on to us. I'm assuming that if we get a "choose your carrier" option, then the annual mem fee will have to go up as well. Some people need to learn to pick their battles...
 
I would be ok with an option if it doesn't cost me anything more. Since that's not likely, tack the additional cost on the order if carrier preference is chosen.
 
Amazon likely uses the shipping that has the best effect on their bottom line. I don't want to end up paying more, because someone has a local shipping issue that should be handled locally.
 
I'd be fine if they just listed all the freight charges for various carriers and allowed you to choose whichever one you wanted. If you wanted a particular carrier you might have to pay more, which is why amazon usually chooses the carrier for you. Prime members could either pay the freight for the carrier they want or choose one of the normal prime options and allow amazon to choose the carrier.
 
DrPizza said:
Amazon likely uses the shipping that has the best effect on their bottom line. I don't want to end up paying more, because someone has a local shipping issue that should be handled locally.
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:thumbsup: Damn straight
 
I hate when it goes from Fedex to last mile USPS.

Fedex/UPS will bring stuff to my door. USPS just dumps it all at the front office which is only open 9-6 M-Sa so if it goes USPS then the quicker shipping is pointless since I'll only get stuff Saturday. But on the flip side the free same day is never USPS nor is the pay next day so I just use that if I really care.
 
Strk said:
I ordered an SSD for my laptop. How does the mailman put it in the mailbox? By jamming it in there so 3/4 of it is hanging out.
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I had this happen to a platter! He crushed the damn box into the small mail box. Lucky you had a SSD. Long story short, platter was bought on Amazon. was used as indicative of the SMART data and I recovered crap from a IIS sever install. LMAO! I left negative feedback. They gave me a refund and said the feedback hurt and wanted it removed. I was like too fucking bad. Was the third damn drive I got screwed on with Amazon. Never again. I'm going Newegg from now on. My fisrt HDD Amazon purchase only lasted a few moths. WD blue. I have nothing but bad luck with HDDs and Amazon.

Okay, that was a long story.
 
But... don't they allow you to? Been a while since I ordered from there but pretty sure I usually have a choice. I just pick the cheapest option. 😛
 
DrPizza said:
Amazon likely uses the shipping that has the best effect on their bottom line. I don't want to end up paying more, because someone has a local shipping issue that should be handled locally.
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If you think you can fix the UPS delivery issues that I keep having you're more than welcome to try. Our local UPS doesn't give two squirts if the customer get their package or not. The last Amazon/UPS screw up I had neither one could tell me why my package ended up in a different state while all along I'm trying to head off the issue to no avail. Both told me to just hope the package shows up after it was delivered to an Amazon warehouse in the wrong state. How crazy is that?

If I had a choice USPS would handle all of my last mile deliveries. They also have a key to my building which makes my life much easier.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I'd be fine if they just listed all the freight charges for various carriers and allowed you to choose whichever one you wanted. If you wanted a particular carrier you might have to pay more, which is why amazon usually chooses the carrier for you. Prime members could either pay the freight for the carrier they want or choose one of the normal prime options and allow amazon to choose the carrier.
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Directron.com lets you choose your shipping carrier. Sometimes they're even cheaper than Newegg.
 
USPS is crap. UPS is even worse. But the whole point of Amazon Prime's "free" shipping is that they choose the cheapest carrier, i.e. USPS.

Also, if your package gets lost in the mail, Amazon sends you a new one so I don't see why that's a problem.
 
obviously this is all a regional thing. i don't think i've ever had an amazon prime package come USPS. it's always either fedex or ups, unless it is same day delivery, then it's usually some guy in a van lol.
 
John Connor said:
I had this happen to a platter! He crushed the damn box into the small mail box. Lucky you had a SSD. Long story short, platter was bought on Amazon. was used as indicative of the SMART data and I recovered crap from a IIS sever install. LMAO! I left negative feedback. They gave me a refund and said the feedback hurt and wanted it removed. I was like too fucking bad. Was the third damn drive I got screwed on with Amazon. Never again. I'm going Newegg from now on. My fisrt HDD Amazon purchase only lasted a few moths. WD blue. I have nothing but bad luck with HDDs and Amazon.

Okay, that was a long story.
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WD Blues suck to begin with *shrug*. And I'm a WD Fanboi.

Is about the same as buying a $20 Corsair PSU really, you get what you pay for irregardless of the branding most of the time, it's just less likely to blow up soon.
 
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sure ive had random packages lost, but its equal across all carries

things from amazon get here 99.99% of the time
 
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