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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/with-demand-surging-amazon-signals-month-long-deliveries
As the coronavirus has forced millions of families into lockdown, demand for Amazon's delivery service has surged.
To help the company deal with rising demand, Amazon has prioritized several categories of essential items, including baby products, health items, and pet supplies.
[...] An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Recode that these delivery dates weren't a technology glitch—Amazon has chosen to de-prioritize these items in the face of surging demand for more time-sensitive items.
[...] At the same time, Amazon is taking steps to increase its shipping capacity. As we reported last week, the online retailer announced that it was seeking to hire 100,000 additional workers to help cope with rising demand and was raising its minimum pay from $15 to $17 per hour.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 24 2020, @05:11PM (5 children)
This happened to me yesterday. I needed a part for a project and got a date of Apr 21. Well, I've been very busy at work and other home projects anyway, so... fine, I'll put that project on hold until next month.
About 10 hours later I get the notification on my phone, shipped. About a month early.
My belief is their logistics algos are breaking down and they're being hard supressed to just mark everything to 4/21. Probably the 21st because the usual goofballs would get all triggered by 4/20.
If you hyper optimize algos to normal conditions, you'll get crazy results when fed unusual conditions. So rather than reporting my part will be delivered in like -3.1415+2i days complete with complex negative numbers and stuff, they hardcode the output to 4/21 until they can fix stuff.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday March 24 2020, @06:41PM (4 children)
Why would goofballs get triggered by 4/20?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 25 2020, @03:23AM (2 children)
'cos 2/29 is too faaaaarrroutt, man! I once had this uncle who ate Cheetos covered in Ru Paul on 2/29 and it was like 20/20 and Catch 22 all rolled into one giant scene of 2001 A Space Gaudity, what with my Aunt Erma vomiting blood every month and....
...where's my bong?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @06:54AM (1 child)
Erma, or Irma [fandom.com]?
A simple typo, I'm sure... No blood, no foul ;-)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 25 2020, @10:05AM
No!, YOU'RE crying!
:)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @05:52AM
Cuz they need to unwind, man.