One-Hour Amazon Delivery Comes to Baltimore

Need diapers, paper towels or toys at your house right away and you just don’t have time to run to the store?

Amazon may be the answer for some Baltimore area residents.

Amazon has expanded its one-hour delivery service to Baltimore and Miami, after a four-month test run in parts of New York City.

Amazon said that its service, Prime Now, expanded to “select Baltimore and Miami zip codes” on Thursday and will soon expand to wider neighborhoods in those cities, reports CNN.

The Baltimore zip codes served by the new offering include 21202, 21218, 21224, 21231, 21205, 21222, 21213, 21233, 21230, 21206, 21203, 21214, 21211, 21251, 21201, 21223, 21225, 21226, 21217, 21219, 21237, 21229, 21227, 21216 and 21236, reports The Baltimore Sun.

“Since launching, we’ve seen high demand on everything from essentials like water and paper towels to more surprising deliveries like getting a customer a hard-to-find, top-selling toy in 23 minutes—we are excited to continue delivering to customers in record-breaking time,” the company said on its website.

Amazon said the service is available to Prime members for yearly fee of $99 and can be accessed through an app on iOS and Android devices. One-hour delivery costs $7.99 and two-hour delivery is free. The service is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.

The Baltimore expansion was enabled in part by a new one million-square-foot Amazon distribution center at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, says the Sun.