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Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Amazon.com Shipping Nightmare

Amazon.com has been the internet's leading retailer since the early days of Web 1.0. Their employees are hand-picked from top schools and are considered some of the top programmers and logistics personnel in the world. So why does Amazon.com still have major problems shipping packages to the correct address?

The story has been told before: a customer moves to a new address, adds the address to the Amazon.com shipping profile, and then tries to delete the old shipping address. Everything looks fine at first, and only the new address shows in their account information. The problem comes when they try to place a new order, especially if they use one-click ordering. They will often find that the old address is back in their account, and their order has been shipped to the old address.

This is not the kind of problem that a major online retailer like Amazon.com should still be having. I'm sure it's somehow related to using redundant servers and not propagating account changes across all servers, but I'm not a tech guy, so who knows. What I do know is that Amazon.com NEEDS to fix this problem, because it's causing some serious customer frustrations.
Major Online Retailer Refuses To Admit Major Problems With Shipping Script


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