Amazon Acts to Speed Deliveries During Coronavirus; Timing Lags

Amazon removed quantity limits suppliers can send to its fulfillment centers, put in place to focus on essential goods in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson emailed Wednesday. The company is adhering to “extensive health and safety measures” to protect fulfillment center workers and is “improving delivery speeds across our store,” he said. Prime one-day and two-day shipping remains elusive, we found. Responding to our question on when those services would resume, the spokesperson said many items are available for one- and two-day Prime shipping. Only one Echo speaker at Amazon Wednesday showed one-day free Prime delivery; others were Sunday and Monday. When we put the Echo in our shopping cart, the delivery date defaulted to one-week out; we had an option to change it to one day.