I guess one way to tell if you\u2019re an old timer or not is if you remember ordering an item from, say, the Sears Roebuck catalog, by phone or by mail, then waiting a week or three for delivery. Patience might not be your middle name back then, but it was definitely a requirement for a happy life. Now, of course, we live in the world of algorithms, computerized programs operating at speeds of nano-seconds. You can\u2019t get your internet to punch up a You-Tube in three seconds, you move on, disgusted. We want it and we want it NOW!<\/p>\n
Amazon started one day delivery awhile back in the Mesozoic Era, free with a subscription to Prime. You pay a yearly fee and voila, everything you order from the Godzilla of merchandizers comes not only without a shipping charge but comes next day. Great gimmick. I have friends who only order from these retailers just for the convenience of fast delivery. I suspect there are others who think similarly. But along comes Walmart and Target, offering the same deal but without requiring a hundred plus bucks a year, so there goes Amazon\u2019s leg up.<\/p>\n
Or does it? Amazon isn\u2019t king of the jungle for chuckles, my friend. No, they upped the ante with the promise of Same Day Delivery. Why should my friends have to wait 24 hours for the gizmo they ordered this afternoon? It\u2019s the equivalent of ordering from the Sears catalog. In the 21st Century!! Maybe you\u2019ve noticed the U.S. Postal trucks on Sunday in your cul-de-sac, well, they\u2019re Amazon deliveries, no rest for the wicked. Day of rest? I don\u2019t think so\u2026. Already they\u2019re testing drones for faster deliveries, possibly door to door if the FAA will let them rent all the airspace they need. But you know and I do too, Walmart and Target aren\u2019t going to sit still for this. They\u2019ll be offering similar delivery times as Domino Pizza, half hour or your money back. Let the drone wars begin! <\/p>\n
Rumor has it that in the ulta-secret labs Amazon operates beneath Mt. Rainier, a honeycomb of experimental workshops and testing warehouses, the Bezos boyz are working feverishly on time travel strategies. Order that thingamajig this morning and you\u2019ll have it yesterday. Impossible, you say? Tell that to Sears Roebuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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