To meet these rising expectations, more D2C brands and sellers are actively seeking fast, reliable, and cost-effective delivery solutions. While not aiming to match the ultra-fast timelines of quick-commerce platforms, D2C brands are accelerating the fulfillment of orders placed on their websites or marketplaces.

To support this growing demand for faster deliveries, logistics management platform Shipway has enhanced its services to include same-day, next-day, and hyperlocal delivery options across major metro cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Pune.

With these new offerings, brands can now choose between standard e-commerce delivery (2–3 days) or opt for expedited same-day and next-day options. Orders placed before a morning cut-off time qualify for same-day delivery, while those placed before 5 PM are eligible for next-day delivery—both within and between cities. Since January 2025, Shipway has achieved a 94% success rate for its next-day delivery service.

By leveraging a robust multi-courier network of hyperlocal partners, Shipway is now also facilitating hyperlocal deliveries, effectively bringing physical stores closer to the customer’s doorstep.

Saurabh Kumar Choudhary, Chief Business Officer at Shipway, said: “More brands are recognizing the value of faster delivery. Customers are increasingly expecting quick fulfillment, and when brands meet these expectations, it leads to higher conversion rates and improved customer loyalty. Fast deliveries also drive impulse purchases and help reduce return-to-origin (RTO) incidents, ultimately improving operational efficiency. At Shipway, we’re committed to enabling businesses, big or small, with better, faster, and competitively priced delivery solutions.”

Shipway will continue to expand its same-day, next-day, and hyperlocal delivery services to additional locations in the coming months

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Amazon India continues to innovate to enable an ever-larger selection of fast, reliable, and convenient delivery options for customers across India. From pioneering next-day delivery in India, back in 2014, to the introduction to launching same-day delivery in 2017 for Prime members, we have continued to prioritize fast and reliable delivery across the largest selection of products. To ensure we cater to evolving customer needs, we have strengthened the selection of items available for same-day and next-day delivery. Today, Prime members get free, unlimited same-day delivery on more than 10 lakh items and next-day delivery on more than 40 lakhs items on Amazon.in.

Globally, after delivering at our fastest speeds ever in 2023, Amazon has set a new delivery speed record for Prime members, with more than 5 billion items arriving the same or the next day, so far this year (2024) In India, so far in 2024, nearly 50% of all Prime member orders across a wide selection of products from eyeliners to baby products, to garden tools, to watches, to phones, have arrived the next-day, same-day, or faster. 

Prime has grown over the years to include savings, convenience, and entertainment all in a single membership. Prime members now enjoy special deals on shopping events like Prime Day and Amazon Great Indian Festival, as well as award-winning entertainment with Prime Video, unlimited ad-free access to millions of songs and top podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, books and magazines with Prime Reading, and 5% cashback on Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card while shopping on Amazon. In addition, members can also earn unlimited 2% reward points on payments at 100+ Amazon Pay partner merchants and 1% reward points on all other payments, across 35 cities in India.

We’ve evolved to make customers’ lives easier by ensuring a wide selection for them to shop for things they need and love while ensuring they get it quickly. Here’s how:

• We’ve continued to strengthen our focus on delivery speeds for Prime members with the expansion of our same-day delivery network. Today, twice as many Prime members receive same-day deliveries versus the same period in 2023.

• Our fulfillment centers provide storage space to lakhs of sellers across 15 states. We have sortation centers across 19 states working with over 1,950 delivery stations operated by Amazon and local entrepreneurs, and our 28,000 third-party delivery partners to deliver smiles to customers across the country. Amazon India delivers 100% serviceable pin codes.
• With the help of AI, we’ve been able to serve customers faster at scale. We’ve leveraged the power of machine learning to expand the selection of products and recommended sellers to move the selection closer to customers for them to order and re-order consistently.
• We’re delivering at faster speeds on the widest and largest selection of products to our Prime members, while also improving the overall safety of our employees. Delivering packages faster isn’t about moving faster inside our facilities— it’s about optimizing our structure and product placement. We’ll continue to make our workplaces safer, even as we get faster.

“We’re continuously innovating to bring new levels of convenience, value, and delivery options that work best for our customers. Through operational innovations to increase same and next-day deliveries, we’ve put products that our customers need and want as close as possible to them. We’re immensely proud of our progress so far, but we know there are ‘miles to go’ and much more that we can innovate to continue delivering smiles to our customers,” said Akshay Sahi Director and Country Head, of Amazon Prime, Delivery Experience, India.

What was true when Amazon was founded remains true today: customers want a wide selection, low prices, and fast delivery. Amazon is expanding selection and delivering faster than ever and remains committed to those core customer values.

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