Amazon has determined that Hurricanes Milton and Helene are major fulfillment network disruptions that affect the shipping regions listed below, and we have taken steps to reduce their impact on seller orders and your account health metrics.
For seller-fulfilled orders that are shipped to or from these regions, Amazon is adding promise extensions to the delivery dates customers see to ensure delivery expectations reflect possible delays. Additionally, we will protect your impacted orders from being considered as defects to your On-time Delivery Rate (OTDR), Late Shipment Rate (LSR), and Cancellation Rate (CR).
If any of your orders to or from these shipping regions are shipped late, delivered late or cancelled, these will not be calculated as a defect on your Account Health Dashboard and will not count against you for purposes of determining whether you have met the requirements of our Order Performance program policy.
The zip codes we add promise extensions to are dynamically updated as we get updates from carriers and observe transit lanes impact.
For Hurricane Milton, these exceptions and protections are already in effect as of October 8 and will continue until at least October 25. As of the moment we published this post, the zip codes we are proactively providing account protection are any that start with the following 3 digits: 286, 287, 288, 303, 304, 305, 306, 315, 320, 321, 322, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 344, 346, 347, 349.
For Hurricane Helene, these exceptions and protections are already in effect as of September 25 and will continue until at least October 18. As of the moment we published this post, the zip codes we are proactively providing account protection were any that start with the following 3 digits: 242, 243, 246, 266, 268, 270, 273, 275, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 323, 324, 325, 326, 329, 330, 338, 339, 342, 349, 359, 368, 376, 377, 378, 398
We may extend these dates and protected zones further based on continued impact to affected regions.
Additionally, we will remove any protected orders from your Account Health metrics reports. To view which of your orders were not protected and currently impact your account health metrics, go to your Account Health dashboard, click on the metric you are interested in viewing, and click ‘download report’. Please reach out to us via Seller support if there are orders which were affected by this event that were not considered for the above account health metric protection, and our investigations team will evaluate if the shipping to or shipping from zones of your orders should be considered under this protection.
Fulfilled by Merchant Team