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I've started getting these. Its a little odd. The latest one I received told me it shipped "2 camera and 1 kitchen item". The camera items were a baby monitor and a mount for the baby camera and the kitchen item were coffee filters. So I guess it's accurate but kind of a useless description.
I recently ordered a wall adapter and the associated cable.
Amazon emailed me to confirm my order of two wireless items.
Yeah, I've made a rule that just marks them as read and archives the. right away, no point seeing them at all when they're so useless.
Same, I'm not sure who thought this was actually going to be helpful. Instead it just means I need to figure out exactly which item it's talking about in the email
Maybe it was a privacy thing? Like they don't want to put "we shipped your ENORMOUS DILDO" in the subject and body of the email.
Or for a more reasonable example, stuff like contraceptives to people in places with repressive governments like Kansas.
They don't want Google having access to all of the juicy customer behavior/interests and product pricing information. Any privacy benefit for end users is purely coincidental, but very welcome. Though, I'd hope anyone that cares about privacy even a little bit is staying far away Gmail and others like it.