New Expedited Shipping Options Offer Customers Great Convenience in
Time for the Holidays
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2009--
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the launch of “Local
Express Delivery,” a new shipping option giving customers same-day
delivery in seven major cities including New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Baltimore, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C. The service will be
extended to Chicago, Indianapolis and Phoenix in the coming months.
Thousands of items are now available for Local Express Delivery. Amazon
Prime* members pay just $5.99 per item for the service. Full details,
including the rate card for all other customers, are available at www.amazon.com/help/shipping.
Items ordered before the following local cut-off times will be delivered
the same day:
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New York City – Order as late as 10 a.m.
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Philadelphia – Order as late as 10 a.m.
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Boston – Order as late as 10:30 a.m.
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Washington D.C. – Order as late as 10:30 a.m.
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Baltimore – Order as late as 10:30 a.m.
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Las Vegas – Order as late as 11 a.m.
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Seattle – Order as late as 1 p.m.
Customers will find delivery cut-off times on each product’s detail page.
“We want to make online shopping as convenient as possible,” said Girish
Lakshman, vice president of Transportation at Amazon. “We’re
continuously working to speed up delivery times and customers receiving
items on the same day as ordered is an exciting step. Now, if a customer
needs a last-minute present for a birthday or wants a copy of their book
club book before the weekend starts, they can order from Amazon instead
of the hassle of a last-minute trip to the mall.”
Amazon has also expanded Saturday Delivery options. Now, items ordered
before the cut-off time on Thursday using Two-Day Shipping will be
delivered on Saturday instead of Monday. For Prime members,
Thursday-to-Saturday delivery is free using Two-Day Shipping. For all
other customers, the service is offered at the current Two-Day Shipping
rates. Saturday Delivery is also available for orders placed before the
cut-off on Fridays for $6.99 per item for Prime members and an
additional charge for all other customers. Full details can be found at www.amazon.com/help/shipping.
Amazon has introduced these shipping enhancements just in time for the
holidays. For the 2009 holiday season, the following order deadlines
apply for delivery by Dec. 24**:
Dec. 17: FREE Super Saver Shipping
Dec. 20: Standard Shipping
Dec. 22: Two-Day Shipping (order as late as 7 p.m. PST; varies by item;
free with Amazon Prime)
Dec. 23: One-Day Shipping (order as late as 3:30 p.m. PST; varies by
item; just $3.99 per item with Amazon Prime)
Dec. 24: Same-Day Shipping (order as late as 1 p.m. PST; varies by item;
just $5.99 per item with Amazon Prime)
*Amazon Prime is an annual membership program that gives customers fast
shipping on millions of items for only $79 a year. Members receive FREE
Two-Day Shipping on millions of items sold by Amazon.com and sellers
utilizing Fulfillment by Amazon. Upgrades to One-Day Shipping are only
$3.99 per item ($6.99 for one-day Saturday delivery). To become a member
of Amazon Prime, or to learn more about the membership program,
customers can visit www.amazon.com/prime.
**Some restrictions apply; visit www.amazon.com/help/shipping
for the full details and additional information about Local Express
Delivery, Two-Day Shipping, Saturday Delivery and all other Amazon.com
shipping options.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web
Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS),
Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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