News - Amazon Prime Sunday service goes live in the UK

[HEXUS]

In London, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds.

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[pollaxe]

As a Prime member, living in the sticks who doesn't always get Saturday deliveries before Monday I hope this is a sign that they'll eventually cater for the non-urbanites amongst us, too.

[Dooms]

All for this. It still annoys me that half the country is not open or working a full day on Sunday - I think I lived in London too long so now a bit spoilt when it comes to getting things when I have spare time, not in a small window of opportunity.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They are priming for even more success.

[kingpotnoodle]

As a Prime member, living in the sticks who doesn't always get Saturday deliveries before Monday I hope this is a sign that they'll eventually cater for the non-urbanites amongst us, too.

I guess I'm still in the London area but I often get Saturday deliveries at my small Hertfordshire town home. I've noticed on Amazon Prime items vary in the cut-off time for next day delivery and Saturday delivery and doesn't change whether I select my home or London office address. I have no evidence I've just always assumed it depended on either item size, warehouse capacity, which warehouse my item was coming from or perhaps the item's sales popularity (presumably more common items are better placed for shipping).

[pollaxe]

Yes, I'm sure a number of factors come into play with it. To be fair to the delivery drivers, I live in one of those places where all the sat-navs send them sailing past and further up the hill.

I've noticed the Saturday delays tend to happen more with Parcelforce than any other carrier, usually when the item is coming from a lot further north (Scotland, in the last couple of examples.) Most of the couriers tend to be quite reliable with the exception of HDNL who always claim to have delivered the item and then it magically appears the following day or when I've complained. I've generally been happy with my Prime membership, I tried it for a month (free) and then forgot to cancel it, so it's my own stupid fault but it's not been too bad, really.

I'm in full agreement with Dooms, I really dislike the whole Sunday thing; it's archaic.

[kingpotnoodle]

Yes, I'm sure a number of factors come into play with it. To be fair to the delivery drivers, I live in one of those places where all the sat-navs send them sailing past and further up the hill.

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I'm in full agreement with Dooms, I really dislike the whole Sunday thing; it's archaic.

New build here, according to every post-code derived location I live in the middle of a field 3 miles away (it's probably the geographic centre of the area covered by the first half of the code) - doesn't stop drivers trying to go there though and then berating me because they got stuck up a tiny lane. Of course because I live there its my fault, not their blind sat-nav following...

If businesses want to operate and people are willing to work I don't see why laws should prevent them, there are enough rules to ensure workers don't get forced to do too many hours a week but they could always be hardened up. Sundays should be thrown open to market forces, let whether or not it's profitable to operate be the deciding factor, same as any other day.

[pastymuncher]

I signed up for the free trial of Prime a couple of weeks ago as i had to build the sister in law a new pc. Amazon was cheapest with most of the components so it made sense to go with the free trial. To cut a long story short, it doesn't work. Not here anyway. Despite all the items i ordered being in stock and stating their next day delivery with prime, only one item turned up the next day. The rest each took 2-3 days to arrive and one item took 5 days. Needless to say i am now cancelling the free trial not that it would get much use now anyway.

[Dooms]

83 orders placed in 2013
Many of those with multiple items...

I get my use out of Prime as when I get free next day on everything I end up buying small items etc.

Out of 83 orders last year there has been 3 items that didn't get delivered next day.

1) A 50inch TV that didn't get delivered on Saturday (Amazon mess up) which then didn't get delivered on Monday (City Link mess up) and got delivered on Tuesday. They gave me 3 months extra of Prime for that cockup.

2) An external HDD that didn't show on Saturday, had to be delivered to work for Monday. They gave me 1 month extra for that.

3) A tube of thermal paste. This was the most annoying as I was getting many PC parts delivered from both Amazon & OCUK on the Saturday. Everything turned up at 9am except the tube of paste and I couldn't build the machine until I had it. Waiting in all day until 4pm when I called them and they said "oh its with Royal Mail" so that wasn't happening at that time on Sat. It didn't turn up on Monday so I got a full refund, 2 months of Prime and the tube turned up on Tuesday and I was told to keep it.

So percentage wise its been good for me, getting stuff delivered to Hertfordshire & Shropshire. All issues have been with Saturday delivery, mid week next day has never messed up for me... and I now have 6 months free Prime

[herulach]

I actually got my first sunday delivery this sunday just gone, turned up about 11am, rather unexpectedly as I didn't read the . Nearly everything on there now is showing as 'one day delivery'. I'd actually rather they gave you the option not to have it. If you're ordering on saturday its either sunday or the standard 2 working day delivery. Little bit inconvenient if you want stuff delivering to work.

[Dooms]

If you're ordering on saturday its either sunday or the standard 2 working day delivery. Little bit inconvenient if you want stuff delivering to work.

I've wanted that for a while. When getting big items delivered I normally want it to home on a Saturday not work on the Friday so I can't order it Thursday daytime. I either have to wait until the cut off has expired (by a long way otherwise sometimes they are 'kind' and squeeze it in) or wait till the Friday to order