Let’s have an OTDR metric that measures business hour delivery rate, and then allow this utter nonsensical garbage
IMO what is asinine is selling on Amazon with these limited hours of business.
They are incompatible with the intentions of Amazon delivery times, which use a consistent algorithm based on handling time, and transit time (distance and service related).
Amazon does not encourage this sort of part time operation.
Aren’t those the buyer’s hours of business? Not the seller’s?
Does Ground Advantage work if you change the ship date to12/27 or later?
Yes, I’m not sure lake quite understood, but those are the BUYER’S limited hours of business. And yes I can lie and say I’m going to ship 2 days LATER so it “allows” me to use one of their services, but just absolutely ridiculous they can allow 2 days of the week for a buyer to be able to “receive” their order and grey out nearly every possible ship method.
Yeah that is stupid. You may have to purchase outside of Amazon. No item purchased on Amazon comes with a guaranteed delivery day
Man… it sucks that I can’t only work 2 days/16 hours a week. Well, I could…if I didn’t mind living under the local bridge.
Those are buyers, not sellers. They are buying off Amazon with those business hours.
I think it’s just their holiday hours. They are taking the week off. As a small business, when I take a vacation, my business is closed.
But do you update your business hours on your amazon buyer account every time you take a vacation?
I debated it, because the stuff comes to my house. I didn’t want it sitting outside. It’s a one-man show here.
I’ve noticed several of the businesses I shipped to over the last few days are open only one or two days over the holiday week.
But that’s what I mean, average user isn’t logging in and changing their business hours all the time.
I suspect this user has NO IDEA the effect of setting business hours like that are.
Do you have the same customer as me?
my thread on SSA and shipping issues
It seems to be quite a few “businesses” that have these “operating hours”
As a seller with business hours like this on Amazon, one would control handle time to the point of having only two shipping days per week? … Anything ordered Monday thru Thursday would ship on Friday … Anything ordered Friday thru Sunday would ship on Monday …
I could be confused but if I am, I am not alone.
And as a buyer I cannot tell Amazon when my business is going to be open.
Are you a business buyer?
Just another half**sed feature for the mostly useless Amazon B2B program. Being forced on all sellers because there are few sellers who wanted to play.
I don’t, and I suspect that most other Amazon Business Buyers don’t, either.
And if these are not the Buyer’s holiday hours, then I suspect that they simply didn’t understand how inputting those likely-incomplete business hours reflecting preferred delivery windows affects their Amazon purchase deliveries.
Amazon is trying to offer Business Buyers a feature that they really don’t have access/rights to (i.e., when carriers deliver to the Buyer) but are trying to control it anyway by punishing Sellers into more expensive shipping services in order to comply. 
Very good analysis.
Doesn’t matter to Amazon how unrealistic their requirements.
I cannot imagine that FBA orders are affected in any way by the buyer’s “receiving hours”, i.e. does not enter into the picture ever.