Amazon.com Announces New Gift Card Options and Offers Customers Great Deals on Millions of Items with Free Shipping Through Thursday

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With less than two weeks until Christmas, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is now offering over fifty new greeting-card styles that can be personalized and affixed with an Amazon.com Gift Card. The new format allows customers to send a greeting card with a customizable message for free with any gift card purchase. Customers can set their own gift card value, choosing any denomination between $5 and $5,000. The greeting card and gift card ship for free and will arrive in time for the Christmas holiday if ordered by Dec. 21 from www.amazon.com/giftcards. E-mail and printable gift cards can be sent immediately, at any time, even on December 25.



Customers can also take advantage of the millions of items and great deals available with FREE Super Saver Shipping until this Thursday, Dec. 17. FREE Super Saver Shipping is available on all orders of eligible items totaling over $25.



Additional holiday delivery deadlines are as follows:

• Dec. 17: FREE Super Saver Shipping


• Dec. 20: Standard Shipping


• Dec. 22: Two-Day Shipping (order as late as 8 p.m. PST; varies by item; free with Amazon Prime*)


• Dec. 23: One-Day Shipping (order as late as 4:30 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $3.99 per item with Amazon Prime)


• Dec. 24: Local Express (same-day) Shipping (order as late as 1 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $5.99 per item with Amazon Prime) Available in Seattle, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C.

*Amazon Prime is an annual membership program that gives customers fast shipping on millions of items for only $79 a year. Members receive free two-day shipping on millions of items sold by Amazon.com and upgrades to one-day shipping are only $3.99 per item. To become a member of Amazon Prime, or to learn more about the membership program, customers can visit www.amazon.com/prime.



About Amazon.com



Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.



Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.



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