Current Events > I just ordered from Amazon for same day delivery and I feel bizarrely guilty.

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Anyone else ever feel this? Maybe it shouldn't be so bizarrely after all. This is the first time I've ever ordered something same day delivery, but it's also the first time I've ever seen the option, and it was free, so I went with it.

It's 2 pm right now. It says it's supposed to deliver anywhere from 5 to 10 pm.

Like, I actually feel dirty and I'm not sure why. Or maybe I do. It feels so glutenous. I feel like a character from Wall-E or something. So some guy is going to be making a special trip, his truck guzzling all that gas, out specifically to my home with a Dungeons and Dragons Player's Guide in a box specifically for me just a couple hours after I hit order? I don't even know how that's logically possible. All because I paid for a video streaming service a year or so ago. Just kinda blows my mind and then I start thinking about villages around the world that don't have access to clean water.

It also feels kinda risky. Like they're gonna be going so hardcore fast that they'll be sloppy and make a mistake and deliver it somewhere else.

I will update how it goes.

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what? Its just a delivery. Calm down lol

Have you never ordered food before?
If a restaurant can deliver food within an hour or two, I think Amazon can manage to do same day delivery.
I assume any item that has Same Day Shipping is located at a Local Warehouse.
You also usually have to put the order in by 8-10am to give the driver enough time to pick up the item and make the delivery.

Repent

You should destroy your electronic devices and live in the woods.

FactsKeepHurtin posted...

You should destroy your electronic devices and live in the woods.

Sounds like he already does lol.

There's been once or twice I had the same day delivery option. Shit arrived the next day anyway.

Same day delivery means someone in their warehouse calls an Uber to deliver it for you. Do you also feel guilty for using any services like those?

Kombucha posted...

Repent

I'm gonna say seven hail Bezoses.

ZaruenKosai posted...

Have you never ordered food before?

Yeah tons of times, but this is the first time same day Amazon stuff. And I get like pizza and stuff all the time. But this just feels different for some reason.

And yeah to the responses, that's why I say "bizarrely". It is bizarre. Of course I don't feel REALLY guilty. It's just more waxing about how crazy logistics are now, what can be done and still be profitable, it just sort of blows my mind. And we can do this, but then there are still so many other things in the world that need fixing. I mean the payment fee for this service is normally 10 dollars, but because I have Prime it's free. So then I just start thinking about people who do this tons and tons every day, and I wonder at all the expense and how it even makes financial sense for Amazon. Just a sort of contemplative moment on modern logistics is all.

I dunno. "Same day" is back to that same "what do I even want, that will fill out the last seventeen cents?" that made Super Saver Shipping an ordeal.

I suspect a Prime Overnight tier or something will appear, soon.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Same day delivery means someone in their warehouse calls an Uber to deliver it for you. Do you also feel guilty for using any services like those?

Yeah but then what if you just had to pay a small fee at the beginning of the year and then you had unlimited access to ubers at all times for free? That would be crazy, and I guess that's what's doing it for me. Just such a big operation to wrap your head around, because so many people use this service.

And I just now noticed how much my topic title comes off like a bullshit clickbait Kotaku article or something like that. XD Sorry guys.

Are you actually contemplating feeling sympathy for one of the largest corporations to ever exist?

GrandConjuraton posted...

Are you actually contemplating feeling sympathy for one of the largest corporations to ever exist?

Oh noooo, no no no, total opposite of that. This topic is way more existential than that.

It's not gonna be a big gas-guzzling Amazon truck most likely, if that makes you feel any better. Probably a guy driving his own car doing multiple same-day deliveries for pennies on Amazon's dollars with no benefits.

ZaruenKosai posted...

You also usually have to put the order in by 8-10am to give the driver enough time to pick up the item and make the delivery.

Not anymore. I can order something at 12:30 AM and have it delivered by 3 AM

Tyranthraxus posted...

Same day delivery means someone in their warehouse calls an Uber to deliver it for you. Do you also feel guilty for using any services like those?

Amazon doesn't do that. Walmart does with their grocery delivery service. Amazon uses their own drivers. Amazon Fresh uses their own version of delivery, which is different from regular delivery.

I kinda feel guilty when I order stuff, then forgot something, order more stuff. Family member then orders some other stuff and for like 4 days straight we get deliveries. Then I remember I paid $139/year for prime and 'free' delivery.

I live in Seattle so same day delivery is common because its Bezos world here.

The only time I ever feel guilty is when I have to return an item. I read articles that Amazon will most likely just trash/destroy returned items (even if they're new and never opened) because inventory space is more valuable than the actual item itself.