Amazon Prime

Royal mail has just delivered something posted 10 days ago (48 hour service) - 9 days in transit! For the past 3 months delivery of RM has been hit and miss in my area. There no longer is a regular postman and often no daily delivery. A weeks worth of letters and small items will arrive in a single batch and long after the predicted delivery dates. On more than one occasion I've had RM tracking emailing me that "your package from XYZ will be delivered today" and then being delivered two days later.

I know that a lot of sorting offices and delivery offices have been hit by COVID. Badly.

Our deliveries have been a bit erratic. Then we had two deliveries (parcel and letter) on Easter Sunday. They must have a backlog.

Also, on quite a few days we've had a delivery about 1630. Clearly overtime after completing another round.

I hadn't realised the "Prime price is dearer for the same item from non Prime suppliers". Do you have any examples?

You do have to check the prices a bit carefully these days, but Amazon makes it very easy. The Prime price is still often the best, or sometimes there are only pennies in it. I find eBay suppliers are quite often cheaper. That said, I'm keeping Prime for the convenience.