I swear that Chinese Amazon sellers have a secret code on their packages that guarantees first priority through both China and USA Customs and post offices. Routinely it seems that packages with items ordered from China through Amazon show up faster than those from FastTech, BangGood etc. I ordered a UniqueFire UF-T20 zoom light on the 16th, it shipped the 17th and showed up today, the 24th. Definitely not expecting it till well after Xmas.
Are they Amazon fulfilled or seller fulfilled from China?
I never seem to get that lucky. I don’t think anything I’ve ever ordered from China though Amazon has ever arrived quicker than four or five weeks after ordering.
Sounds like the Chinese seller must have a US warehouse. Some of them do, BangGood and Tmart come to mind off the top of my head.
I am talking about seller fulfilled from China. I am a Prime member so Amazon fulfilled is 2 work days normally. Packages normally have the required customs paperwork stamp on the package so they are coming from outside the USA.
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I am talking about items shipped from China by Amazon sellers, NOT Amazon USA warehoused items shipped by them so your links are irreverent in this case.
Huh, that is mighty impressive then.
Do you get packages with receipts inside?
I thought they could warehouse the items after they came through customs, then apply the final label to deliver one when an order came through.
Much of the ‘commingled’ story is still gossip, Amazon doesn’t talk about their methods in public.
Nope, Amazon DOES commingle inventory, take it from a vendor who used to sell on Amazon.
I think they use "ePacket" instead of CN/HK mail.
I’m thinking it doesn’t go through regular postal channels but instead has it’s down dedicated shipment every day. So with thousands of orders from China to US, there is a plan that leaves every day (China to US) for Amazon orders only and then it gets forwarded on from there. I know that’s how ASOS (clothing supplier from UK) ships to Australia quite quickly.
Amazon and Ebay sellers from China are both fast. I think it has to do with both of those companies won’t put up with the slow shipping times. You don’t deliver within a certain amount of time and they will stop doing business with you. Could be the death of their company. Much like dealing with Walmart, if they drop you, your screwed as far as sales go.
Those plans are very insidious, they almost seem to fly on their own, with all the chaos of (brain)storms and changing circumstances each day (with all the deadlines, meetings and captains involved in launching a new plan). It seems every day a new updated plan is airborne and each day they must revise the plan for tomorrow and unforeseen circumstances of daily plan changes could lead to chaos, yet they continue to launch a new plan every day.
The slow down in international shipping is always customs and duty - not transport. Some exporters are bonded and vetted and get there orders through faster.
well it seems your package travel in LIGHT speed 
I’ve also noticed eBay and Amazon sellers from China are faster than the Chinese sellers like GB, BG, FT, etc.
Part of it has to do with them having reputations to keep up.
They pay customs to look the other way/rubber stamp/etc.
Who cares how, as long as it’s good 
And they contract their own flights?
Really, don’t know but I like what they do.
Still haven’t done the prime thing yet.
Later,
Keith
Grease. Partnerships. Probably similar to how Netflix gets dvds scanned in in a day, and shipped out in a day. One day. i.e. I can return mail a dvd in Monday's mail, and early Tuesday morning Netflix will show it received. Then a little bit later, it will show my next dvd as shipped. I will get it Wednesday. Have you ever gotten a letter delivered in one day? Netflix has gotten a scanner into the hands of the USPS and they scan it as received that day (as long as I insert the dvd sleeve in the return envelope with the bar code showing in the window).
Oooooooooone letter. Just ONE letter. hahaha