Sneezeweed

For many months now, I have actively had to click on the 'No, I don't want Prime at this time' button.  I made a mistake on the order I made early this month and suddenly I had Prime status. I cancelled Prime right away but Amazon insists that I still have one month of free Prime status.  Good time to do an experiment.  Prime membership offers many benefits but the only one I would use is the two day express delivery of ordered items.  Let's just see how long it will take for my 14 items to arrive.  (As luck would have it, within a week I had another bunch of things that I kinda needed so sent out a second order under Prime status.)  Rules for the experiment - don't count the day the order was made, don't count Saturday/Sunday, don't count a holiday. 

The first item arrived on September 9th.  It was Fed-Ex'ed directly from the manufacturer.  4 days.

Two more items arrived in my post box on September 14th shipped from an Amazon warehouse - 4 days (they were from the second order which was made a week later). Funny, would have expected something shipped directly from Amazon would make the advertised Prime express shipping time.

The next day the UPS truck dropped off parcel #4 - 8 days - shipped directly from the manufacturer.

Picked up my mail on Sept. 16.  Another single parcel shipped USPS - 6 days from when that was ordered.

Today had a box, shipped via UPS, waiting for me at the post office w/ all of the remaining items in it. So that was a mixture of 7 days or 11 days after I ordered them.  Not bad (though nothing was delivered within the 2 day Prime promise).