Amazon for home delivery of items to library users?

Sarah passes on a great idea from Helene Blowers to use Amazon Library Processing to ship books to the end user, and when s/he’s done, the book will be returned to the library and thus be entered into the circulating collection.  I like that idea a lot.  It’s very similar to what we’ve been trying to do in COPPUL, which is get a direct delivery project off the ground.  Cut out the middleman library when a distance student requests an item that ends up being filled by another consortial library.  Instead of the U of A shipping to the U of C, then us ship to our student, we’d love for the U of A to be able to ship directly to our student.  But hey, if we’re going to buy the item, why not have Amazon ship directly to them, since the book’s completely pre-processed.  Of course any of the library vendors could offer this as an option, but Amazon seems to have the stock and the ability to ship quickly.  Anyone know if they’re as fast for library-processed material as they are for “normal” stuff?  Near as I can tell, Library Processing isn’t available (yet?) from Amazon.ca

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