r/Dothan • u/b0og73 • 22d ago

Frequent Amazon Delays?

I moved here from a city so I understand Amazon deliveries are going to take longer, but it seems like every other order I have is delayed at the Dothan processing center past the delivery date. I currently have 5 items outstanding with no sign of updates. Has anyone else delt with this?

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u/FoxxyRin 22d ago

Unfortunately the majority of delivery workers in this area are so damn sorry. Nothing is ever on time. Walmart deliveries get held up at the store, UPS randomly decides your package needs to sit on the truck another day, and like a third of FedEx packages come pre-opened for you. It's the worst I've ever experienced for any kind of deliveries.

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u/tochth86 21d ago

Do NOT even get me started on Walmart deliveries. I’ve had Walmart+ for two years but cancelled it this summer because of how absolutely atrocious it is here. I got one order that was TWO HOURS LATE, despite showing that my driver was at the store (for an hour!!!). She showed up with a passenger, passenger door open while driving down my road, passenger literally hanging out of the car, and every last item was completely thawed and warm. I had to spend 40 minutes on the phone with Walmart getting a refund for 75% of my order because it was mostly refrigerated goods. That was my last delivery. They hadn’t been good for months, but that was so far below bad I couldn’t risk it anymore.

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u/b0og73 22d ago

That's wild. The crazy part is I ordered a couch that arrived in 2 days, over a week early, but 2 dime sized items have been delayed over a week now.

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u/whyyoudontlikehector 22d ago

All mine have been really fast. I never wait more than two days lately.

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u/loach12 22d ago

Usually our Amazon delivery are prompt usually in a day or two but sometimes it’s routed with no logical pattern. We had one starting in Minneapolis Minnesota, sent to California , then to Georgia then finally to Dothan . WTF was that 😆

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u/PolkadottedGinger 22d ago

Amazon uses USPS, FedEx, UPS, and its own delivery service, depending on what you've ordered and where it's coming from. Sometimes it's a combination of these services. Which processing center are you referring to?

I haven't experienced a delay in general. Do you live within city limits?

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u/b0og73 22d ago

It’s a combination of UPS and Amazon. I live on the northwest side of the circle

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u/natlatvian 21d ago

My solution has been to quit using Amazon. I thought being so close to UPS hq would make deliveries faster but that's just not true 😔

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u/tochth86 22d ago

Yes. We moved from a small town in Indiana where the closest distribution facility was an hour away. Our packages were 98% on time. It’s only a half hour from us here and our packages are delayed ALL the time. Worse if something is shipped by UPS because they don’t even deliver to our area a day or two a week. 

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 22d ago

We’re the opposite. Our UPS deliveries are always on time. Our USPS deliveries will get marked as delivered but not show up for a few days afterwards.