Originally Posted by thepla
I bought a book from Amazon.COm, the free shipping stated 10 days to receive the book. I received an E-mail that it shipped on 10/14 and expect to receive it on the 28th. Is this normal? It went out USPS, I've never heard of a 14 day option for shipping
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/Begin slightly OT rant: Since Amazon instituted the program for $75 for second day shipping, it's taking them a lot longer (in my experience) to push the free shipping orders out the door. I'm 99% sure that they would say that they are focusing their efforts on those orders that are part of $75 program, but I suspect there may be a conscious effort to slow down the free deliveries to encourage people to sign up for the program. /rant
Amazon probably gave you a USPS tracking number, so that you can see when the PO actually received the package and its progress. The time to receive will probably be primarily a factor of the distance between you and Amazon's warehouse. The 10 days after shipping is probably just Amazon's outside estimate of the time for the USPS to deliver such packages to anyone in the US.