Ugh, that sucks. Hope they had backups and insurance.

If you need $3-4 that badly, spending it on expedited shipping seems stupid. Hell, spending it on shipping seems stupid.

Packages arriving at all in during the holiday season seem a miracle to me. I consider the entire month of December as iffy.

Then months. That's what happens when you outsource your gift giving.

I've never trusted those "guaranteed delivery by X day" promises. Never. I mean, I hoped they'd arrive and whatnot, but implicit trusted? Nope.

I see this from the concept of the simplest and most important link in the entire chain of events: the person who wanted the gift to arrive on time.

Do you think Amazon's fairly last minute delivery promise encouraged more people to wait longer to buy gifts or for them to buy more last-minute gifts?

They have no ethical duty beyond not causing harm to their customers and making proper reparations if they break their contract.

Meh, I think of Netflix like previews.

Unless it's a public safety issue, who cares though?

If we're hell bent on drug testing welfare recipients, how are we not drug testing companies that receive subsidies like this, too?

1. Nope. Very smart of Amazon.

Just can't quit, can you?

You bought from the wrong company.

Depends on the issue. Was it weather? Mechanical problems? Plane crash? All of those?

Okay.

You going to sue for an xmas gift being a day late?

No, they messed up.

Okay. You do it your way, I'll do it mine.

They were wrong.