Ask HN: Amazon prime no-rush delivery

[gopalanj]

Lately am seeing more no-rush delivery options.

Amazon charges for Prime and then pay (as $1 MP3 download credit) people not to use it. But why?? Did they got burnt of prime shipping?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200444160

[duck]

I would guess that it is due to the busy time of the year and maybe to push their digital offerings to more people.