That's the way I see it, too. With more and more people paying for Prime (the streaming audio and video are worth the price, alone) they have more and more 2-day shipping orders to fill. This is why their "economy" shipping has such a wide range of dates for receiving the package. They have to fill the Prime orders, first, and then will fill and ship other orders *literally* when they get around to it.
Or it COULD be that the items ordered are just on back order or. . .
I'm a Prime member and even before becoming one, I found that oftentimes the "regular" free shipping timeframe of 5 - 8 days or whatever was a joke. A joke in a GOOD way as Amazon would somehow get it to me in two or three days.
Even now, when ordering as a Prime member, you have the option of selecting standard shipping. That also can be a pleasant surprise. The times that I've done it (just to see what would happen as I didn't need the item RIGHT NOW), it still arrived in two days. SWMBO's experience is similar, but with a twist. Sometimes when she opts for standard shipping vs. the two day free Prime shipping, they will send her voucher for $XX off on a food or specialty item order AND the damn package will still show up in two or three days.
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Ditto. Worse, I accidentally pushed the "free prime" button. I gotta get that straightened out.
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