Tough Day To Be A Mailman

As discussed heavily in my first blog, Amazon Prime plays a huge role in my consumer behavior. I'm an active user of Amazon Prime, enough so that Ann Arbor mailmen are fed up with the amount of packages they deliver to my doorstep on a weekly basis. However, luckily for Ann Arbor mailmen, and sadly for myself, I won't be on campus any longer after graduation this year. They'll have to find other Amazon Prime users to take their anger out on, and I'll have to find other ways to use Amazon in whichever urban setting I move to. Thankfully, the incredible features of Amazon don't stop at Amazon Prime. Instead, they've already branched into Amazon Fresh (Amazon's online grocery delivery service), Amazon Prime Now (offering household items and essentials in urban areas within two hours), and are branching into Amazon Prime Air (Amazon's drone delivery service within 30 minutes of order). So, how does this relate to me and how does this relate to co...

Even the most ambitious and energetic college students have had one of those days when leaving the house is not an option. That shampoo you've run out of and need to go pick up at Walgreens across campus? Not happening. The extra shelves that you told yourself you'd buy during welcome week for your overflow of clothes, but have been replaced by piles of clothes on the floor instead? Holding off on another week to grab those. Or even the Christmas lights that would really put the finishing touches on your room and would probably take about one hour total to buy and put up? Sure, I'll get to those around Christmas time, it'll be festive then. This was a very common occurrence for me last year, and I wouldn't even consider myself a lazy person. I found myself consistently pushing off menial, yet necessary, purchases for another day, and then another week, and then another month, until they simply never happened. Well something finally changed this year...