Happy Amazon Prime Day: What Once Was Free Now Has a Fee

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Happy Amazon Prime Day: What Once Was Free Now Has a Fee
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Twenty-seven cents here, twenty-seven cents there...soon you're talking real money!

, July 12-13, Coloradans are discovering an unexpected add-on to their deals: a 27-cent delivery fee.

Amazon Prime Day started in 2015 as a celebration of the shopping site's twentieth anniversary as well as a way to drive Prime membership. Over the years, the small event has expanded into an annual two-day shopping orgy, whose success often surmounts that of Black Friday and Cyber Monday as thousands of items across hundreds of categories go on sale for Amazon prime members.,

But one of the prime advantages of Prime membership, fee-free delivery, no longer exists in this state. During the last legislative session, a bill adding a .27 state fee — which could increase with inflation — was passed by lawmakers. The move was part of a transportation funding bill that imposes a 27 cent tax on all retail deliveries"The fee, which has been required since July 1, applies to deliveries by motor vehicle, and includes goods that are mailed as well as food deliveries.

Air Pollution Mitigation Retail Delivery Fee. The funds collected, estimated to total $1.2 billion over the next decade, will be used to support road work and other transit projects, as well as pollution initiatives.National Republican Congressional Committee,Brittany Pettersen and Yadira Caraveo, both Democrats now running for the U.S. House of Representatives, as prime culprits for approving the fee.

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