Why Amazon Sucks: The Master Thread

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I'm not familiar with logistics, but is there any reason for this? It

Mmmh, strange, once I ordered 3 different items over a weekend from different suppliers and they all came into one box! I was happily surprised.

 

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I ordered some items the other day from AMZ and today they came in all separate boxes, 5 in total, with different labels and I'm sure, different shipping costs. The thing is, the entire order could have fit into a box about twice the size of a shoebox ...

I'm not familiar with logistics, but is there any reason for this? It looks like everything came from the same warehouse. So instead of one box and one shipping cost, they incurred five -- with five packaging costs. Makes zero sense.

Could be corona restrictions - employees not allowed to walk to other sections of the warehouse/touch packages other people touched, etc.

End of the day the seller is paying for the fulfillment cost, so the marginal financial benefit of combining is likely lower than just keeping the employees separated/healthy/happy. One corona outbreak and the entire warehouse shuts down.