i have amazon prime and i have a question?

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so i get 2 day shipping all the time and their fulfillment center is just a state over. it only takes 5 hours for a package to get from there to here in my town. amazon knows this and holds the package back and ships it the next day so it wouldnt be "one day shipping" and ship it about 5 hours before the postal service scans in the trucks load on. why do they hold back a package like this?

what i am asking in simple form is that i order on amazon. i have 2 day shipping. they ship it on day number 2 at 2am. my post office gets it in 5 hours. why dont they just ship it the same day the order is placed

Bostonian In MO · Accepted Answer

Because they process millions of orders each day. They are prioritized to flow through the system in a manner that ensures that each order will be delivered according to their service level agreements.

Yours isn't being "held" per se, but it is queued to be out the door at a certain point in time so that the delivery target will be met.

D.E.B.S. · Answer

A fulfillment center does not mean that all your items are sitting in that warehouse. They have a lot of things for certain, but a lot of what goes on there is receiving truck loads of goods from other locations or 3rd Pty vendors, sorting the packages, and then sending it back out to USPS, UPS, etc. They likely are not sitting on your order.

I used to live a quarter mile from 600,000 sqft facility and knew several people who worked there that explained the deal to me.

tra1215 · Answer

Well, they have to process the order and prep it to be shipped. There is a protocol when orders come in. They just follow it the same way every time.

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