New Amazon Record: 3 Hours, 16 Minutes
Apr. 12th, 2026 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerSaturday morning I ordered a new bathroom scale. Nothing fancy, just a basic scale to replace the 20-ish year old one we have. After I selected one that doesn't have bluetooth or require downloading an app to setup, Amazon offered me a delivery option I'd never seen before, a same-day option. Oh, I've seen same-day options before. But this one was crazy because it offered a time window of 10am - 3pm... when it was already 9:52am.
"Let's see if this gets here in 8 minutes!" I chuckled to myself as I pressed the Buy button.
The reality wasn't 8 minutes, of course. But it wasn't far off, compared to the "Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery" refrain still heard in some corners of life today. The scale hit my doorstep at 1:08pm. That's a new delivery record of 3 hours 16 minutes.
"Let's see if this gets here in 8 minutes!" I chuckled to myself as I pressed the Buy button.
The reality wasn't 8 minutes, of course. But it wasn't far off, compared to the "Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery" refrain still heard in some corners of life today. The scale hit my doorstep at 1:08pm. That's a new delivery record of 3 hours 16 minutes.
