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June 15

Get it TODAY: Amazon Extends Same-Day Delivery Service To Seattle

Amazon.com is now offering same-day delivery service on some items in the Seattle area. This is cool because it is GOOD FOR CUSTOMERS! For some customers, choosing local express delivery will simply be an added convenience by preventing them from having to pack up their kids in the car and fight traffic to/from some store to get a needed item. For others who have a hard deadline, it will be the difference between getting the item they need or not if they can't find the product available anywhere locally, which is often the case with books and other products I want/need.

If you're signed in and looking at a product eligible for local express delivery early enough in the day you'll see a message like this to the right of the product image on the its detail page:

Check out the official Local Express Delivery page for full details including pricing, but here are the basics:

Local Express Delivery
When you choose Local Express Delivery, items are delivered on same day you place your order. Qualifying orders must be placed before the deadline displayed on the product detail page and shipped to an eligible address. Item eligibility is indicated on the product detail page and during checkout. If the order is placed after the deadline, your order will be delivered the next business day. If this shipping option doesn't appear, the order isn't eligible.
We're working to make this shipping option available to more customers. Currently, only addresses in the New York City, Philadelphia and Seattle areas are eligible for Local Express Delivery.

Same day delivery for orders placed before the deadline displayed on the product detail page.
No weekend delivery; no P.O. boxes or APO/FPO
Items may ship using a variety of methods, both air and ground
Signature upon delivery required for shipments over $400
Eligible for Guaranteed Accelerated Delivery

I'll be glad to see the number of markets served and available products increase as the program expands over time but I think this latest progress is pretty exciting, especially for me since I live in Seattle! This is the kind of thing that makes me proud to work at Amazon, even though I have nothing to do with this program.

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June 13

RSS Subscription Links on Amazon Tag Pages

I blogged a few weeks ago about Amazon's support for RSS feeds on tags. That release enabled you to build your own tag-based feed by constructing a url that included a tag and one or more advanced options you could specify including length, your Amazon Associate ID, and a time window threshold (full details here).

Now, getting RSS feeds is even easier. Just go to a Customer Communities (tag) page by putting the tag you are interested into this url: http://www.amazon.com/tag/yourtaghere or navigate to one by clicking on a tag on a product detail page. In the lower-left corner of the page you'll see the RSS Feed subscription link.

The tags area of product detail page on Amazon has also become a lot more useful. In addition to allowing you to tag the product, it also lets you easily 'pile on' to existing tags, search for other tagged products, or see the most popular tags on Amazon right now.

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