How to Geek: “…The short answer is that you can’t completely delete an order from your history. The only option is to archive, which is Amazon’s way of allowing you to hide an order from your main order history. However, even when archived, the order remains in Amazon’s system (linked to your account), and it can be seen on your Archived Orders page. If someone knows how archived orders work and has access to your Amazon account, they can find the orders you’ve hidden. This means that archiving is not a foolproof way to hide the history of buying something from Amazon. To do that, you’d need to close your Amazon account and create a new one (though Amazon will retain your transactional data, due to legal obligations.) So, don’t buy sensitive items with your main Amazon account—or from an account you share with other people—because those purchases will follow you for as long as you maintain that account…”