2-days has become 2-weeks for many of us:
Amazon Prime No Longer Offers 2-Day Shipping: What You Need to Know
And: https://postageabout.com/is-amazon-prime-no-longer-offering-2-day-shipping
In early 2024, 1- and 2-day shipping options vanished from our Amazon order pages. For the next six months, nearly all orders took 5-7 days to reach us – with some taking 7-15 days.
Amazon never told their paid-up Prime Membership customers that Amazon had dropped 2-day shipping. The shipping options simply vanished from Amazon order pages. This was unethical and dishonest of Amazon – charging customers for a service that Amazon quietly eliminated.
As Warren Buffett has said, it can take decades to build a brand and just five minutes to destroy it. The Prime brand was built on 2-day shipping options.
Amazon does not provide Prime delivery services to about 40% of residents in the country where deliveries often take a week or more, say online references. Prime delivery is offered in about 140 metro areas only.
In the fall 2024, after watching every order take 1-3 weeks for delivery over a five-month period, we dropped Amazon Prime and the $140 annual fee. Orders over $35 are shipped “free” anyway.
This past week I spoke to others in my area – all of whom had discontinued Amazon Prime or are planning to drop Prime for the same reason – Amazon stopped serving our area with Prime services.
Amazon built the brand on 2-day shipping – and in one swoop trashed their Prime brand!
Shipping from Amazon has gotten so bad that an order placed on February 20, 2025 did not ship until March 5th, 2025. It looks like it may be delivered on March 10th – thus, 2 and 1/2 weeks. This is the typical performance from Amazon in 2025.
We cancelled our Prime membership and switched to Walmart+ – and their shipping has been more reliable, with some items coming the same day as the order, and most items arriving within 2-3 days.
We do not live in a big metro area and realize orders may take longer. The problem is that Amazon quietly ended Prime deliveries – but kept our Prime membership fee, which if paid annually, cannot be cancelled until its yearly expiration date.
Update:Amazon announced it will build a distribution center in our half of the state, in fact, in my town. They anticipate opening this by summer of 2026 and say this will enable them to resume the shipping services they abandoned for Prime customers in our half of the state. We do not know if we will renew Amazon Prime in 2026 – by ending Prime without telling us, they sort of lost our trust.
Again, the problem is that Amazon cut off paid Prime customers, without the courtesy of a notification. This was not an ethical business practice.
