If you use Amazon Buy Shipping and ship on time and the label you purchased has the Claims Protection badge, then INR will be covered by Amazon and not held against your metrics ODR. This hasn’t changed with the exception of the introduction of the “Late Delivery Risk” badge. If you purchase a label through Amazon Buy Shipping that has the “Late Delivery Risk” badge, then you loose your INR protection and OTDR protection. This is why Amazon has made a change to the wording in their shipping policy.
Right now, we see the AHT program is self destructing which means there will be several sellers that will most likely be seeing this “Late Delivery Risk” badge.
To begin with, AHT had 2 day handle time on all of our items. Then, we had one item go to 1 day handle time. Now, we have 3 items at 1 day handle time and one showing that it thinks it should be same day shipping. Yet all of the Average Actual Performances are 2 days or more (which is what the AHT is suppose to be calculated at).
The change in the policy wording, SSA and AHT are all very iffy right now. On top of that, we have seen an up tick in addresses that do not validate in the USPS system and some vary erratic pricing since the July 13, 2025 price increase. Here is a sample of the things we are tracking …
Anything with a “-Z4” next to the price is an order that the address doesn’t validate on USPS.
The one with the “Risk” next to the price is one of the items that the AHT was set to 1 day handle time.
The lines with the last column showing -0.05 or -0.04 are where Amazon is charging a lower price for Zone 5, Zone 6 or Zone 7. You can see there are a few with the correct price mixed in. You can also see that Amazon estimated delivery times are basically 5 or 6 business days ( a TD6* with the zip and then W1 stands for 6 day estimated delivery with one weekend day within that six days which would be 5 business days).
Let’s just say Amazon Glitchmas in July when it comes to shipping right now.