I ordered some items—a hand salve, some tea, cleaning soap and a cookbook—from a Washington, D.C.-based boutique on March 19, a Thursday. My pal’s birthday wasn’t for an additional week and I figured the bundle might take some time. However it arrived on her New York doorstep two days later. I used to be shocked. The identical cookbook on Amazon is at the moment delayed till late April.
Huge order quantity, fueled by the worldwide coronavirus disaster, is inflicting a logistics backlog at Amazon. Customers accustomed to receiving packages in a matter of days—the…
