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AliExpress stopped displaying green combined delivery label. Is this THE END?!
dusan:
Month ago I was adding some items on the list to buy in February and I always carefully select only items with green combined delivery label, so that I receive all in one package instead of 20 separate packages but when I checked these items today, all the green labels were gone. I had list of 30 URLs all with combined delivery green label and now all the green labels are gone? What does this mean? Is combined delivery no longer a thing? How to check if item is combined delivery?
ataradov:
Yes, this implicitly combined thing was mostly for Europe and it was applied to items that are located in local warehouses.
In the US I just get items automatically combined depending on their logistics. You get a lot of tracking numbers, but all items are shipped to a local place in China, where they are packaged and shipped as one item with a new tracking number. They may be doing something similar for the EU.
magic:
They often combine packages opportunistically even if there was no guarantee that they will do it. It happened to me several times. They even combine "AE saver shipping" packages with "AE standard shipping" and deliver them faster.
I don't know what happened to the "guaranteed combined delivery" offers, but I never really cared about it.
floobydust:
Alibaba Group has their own shipping logistics companies and the chinese are smart enough to aggregate and use their own network for shipments.
Cainiao is part of them, bottom cost but not so great. Part of the success of Aliexpress is the low cost shipping. It's like their own mini FedEx or something- they have a package center, containers arrive etc. in your city. The handoff to local carriers seems to be the funny part, as far as adding cost. One step away from making their own post lol.
Combining shipping costs of multiple items from one store is not possible despite what people say. I've never, ever had it work.
I would add to that complaint about Aliexpress that you can't sort by price including shipping, and the ripoff where an item is $0.01 with $12.99 shipping is so annoying.
Lately I'm seeing orders take a long time about 10 days to get fulfilled and shipped - Covid has greatly affected things over there.
SiliconWizard:
Yeah, this is done automatically for shipping over here as well.
I have mixed feelings about it: while it obviously makes sense from a cost and efficiency POV, putting unrelated items in the same package can cause issues - obviously that becomes a single point of failure if there is any problem with the package - all your items will be gone. And it's not like it never happens... Not a big problem with cheap stuff, but could be for more expensive items. Not allowing the consumer (at least in my case, and I guess in some other countries as well) to choose what is going to be combined is a problem. Obviously the workaround is to order items a few days apart if you want them shipped separately, but that's kind of a hack and not even a guarantee unless you wait for up to 2 weeks in some cases. Just my 2 cents.
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