Amazon.com strange shipping

For Monica's birthday I ordered her two CDs from Amazon.com. I ordered them at the same time and they're both by the same artist. This seems like the kind of user behavior that happens a thousand times a day, though the artist wasn't mainstream.

Here's what we got:



The package on the right was shipped first from Illinois and arrived this morning. The one on the right was shipping a day later from California and arrived yesterday afternoon.
And of course the packaging is very different. Somehow this doesn't seem like the most efficient way to do this, either for Amazon or for me.

The good news is despite their prediction of an April 14th delivery, BOTH CDs made it her for her birthday.