Amazon says it set new Prime delivery speed records in early 2024

In a blog post, Amazon said it has set new records for Prime delivery speeds in the first three months of 2024, with more than 2B items arriving the same or next day to Prime members around the world. In March, nearly 60% of Prime member orders arrived the same or next day across the top 60 largest U.S. metro areas. “When Amazon first launched Prime in the U.S. in 2005, we offered free Two-Day Shipping on one million items,” the company said. “We now offer more than 300 million items with free Prime shipping, including tens of millions of products available with Same Day or One-Day Delivery. That is over 20 times more products that we can deliver twice as fast compared to when Prime first launched. Whether customers are looking for a particular brand of running socks, a soundbar for a new TV, their favorite coffee, or travel-sized essentials for a last-minute trip-all these and more, at all kinds of price points, can be found on Amazon and delivered fast and free for Prime members.”