Extended Free Shipping by Amazon

We're all glad.

We've got prime. We can order as little as we like, as often as we like. And we take advantage of their streaming service.

Cindy Hamilton

I don't usually buy from Amazon and about the only reason I go on their website is to download Kindle books I've borrowed from my public library.

I did notice the other day though that the cost of Prime has zoomed to $13 a month- plus tax! That's a lot of money for free shipping on a tube of toothpaste.

Seems like Amazon is at our house at least three times a week. My husband and I hate shopping in person. We even buy our clothes online, some of them from Amazon.

And then there's the streaming video.

Cindy Hamilton

Prime give access to TV and other stuff besides free shipping. I'm not interested either and much prefer using Walmart who ships practically free on anything. If you only buy small items, they will let you add additional small items until you reach the free shipping level. My wife bought little things like saccharine tablets, a hair net and seeds and got free shipping.

You don't have to have Prime to get free shipping from Amazon. Just like Walmart, if your order exceeds $25 there's a free option. What Prime was offering pre-Covid was free same/one/two day shipping. That seems to slowly coming back.

Yes, I plan ahead and I almost never need esp. speedy shippping, so it's always free. Even when I think I could use something tomorrow, I've noticed the days go by, I keep busy, and before I know it the package has arrived when originally scheduled.** Twice, just 2 or 3 days before leaving on a trip, I didn't have something I needed for the trip, so I joined Prime for a month for free and then cancelled it. Amazon doesn't seem to have any problem with this, because each time on the very next order, they said I could join Prime again for one more free month.

One of those times, I didn't cancel when I should have, 5 days late, and when I did cancel, they refunded the second month's charge since I hadn't actually bought or shipped anything during the second month. I think they did this without my even asking. (I wasn't going to ask. I thought it was my punishment for not paying attention. I don't know anyone else who refunds monthly charges just because benefits weren't taken advantage of.)

IMO, that's why Amazon is so successful, they don't screw with their customers, they refund money you spent but got nothing for. Except for one big, every-time exception. Even though the individual items all say Free Shipping, and in the upper right corner it says "Free shipping when qualified order goes over $25 (or whatever it is at the moment)" until it does go over that number, when it says "Free Shipping", that's only true until you get to the checkout page, and there, they never set you up with the free shipping. It's always $8 to get the package a day or two earlier. You have to click on Free Shipping again to get what they said you would get. I'm used to this now, I always remember to check, and I've never made a mistake and paid extra, but it's pretty sleazy and in contradiction to what I just said about their not screwing with their customers.

Yes, I think most know that and shipping is free from many others when you go beyond a certain level. I am addressing the small stuff and also finds stuff comes faster from Walmart than Amazon if you do not have prime.

Same here, and the military discount drops the annual cost to $80-ish, so we make out like bandits.

We also use the streaming music, as well. It's a nice change of pace from local radio, since it's ad free and DJ free. No inane blabber, just music while we work in the yard.

When I lived in San Antonio, just a few miles from an Amazon warehouse, I could always tell when an item would ship from that warehouse because one of the options was 1-hour delivery, even on Sundays. One hour delivery usually meant 20-30 minutes, but one time a lady drove up in her minivan,

I've seen quite a few articles lately about workers having to pee on the run.

So you're making deliveries in a residential neighborhood and you have to take a leak. Hide behind someone's rosebush?

What you don''t do is piss in a an empty soda cup and try to pour it out the window at 65 mph.

Since there is a shop and rob on every corner in most of suburban America they have options. If they are in Fumbuck, piss out the side door like everyone else.

I don't know what that would be, but most stores have no public bathroom, and most gas stations have stopped having them also.

Wear one of these and you can take a dump anywhere you like.