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Do you want to see a brilliant move?

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Posted on January 10, 2017 at 23:36:08
Michael Samra
Dealer

Posts: 36118
Location: saginaw michigan
Joined: January 30, 2005
 That Sherwood S-1060 I bought was down in Ferndale near Detroit.I live 90 miles from Detroit and shipping was 13 dollars for a 28 pound package.You would think it would go to Flint and from Flint to Saginaw but no.It went to Warrendale Pa. LOL. It is no mistake because this happens a lot when I buy from Detroit and pay standard shipping thru USPS.

Tracking #:

Carrier:
USPS

Status:
ACCEPTEDIN TRANSITDELIVERED

DEPART USPS FACILITY

Jan-10-17, 22:31 PM, WARRENDALE 15095

Arrived at USPS Origin Facility

Jan-10-17, 14:30 PM, WARRENDALE, PA 15095

Acceptance

Jan-09-17, 10:12 AM, BERKLEY, MI 48072
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken

 

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RE: Do you want to see a brilliant move?, posted on January 11, 2017 at 06:48:22
dee eye why
Audiophile

Posts: 1148
Location: so. ohio
Joined: March 20, 2003
 I live Dayton Ohio. I purchased some Transistors from a local online electronics liquidator, less than 10 miles from my house. The parts went to Cincinnati and then back to Dayton. 100 mile round trip.
Insane.


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Freak out...Far out...In out....

 

RE: Do you want to see a brilliant move?, posted on January 11, 2017 at 07:09:41
sony6060
Audiophile

Posts: 1465
Location: USA
Joined: August 8, 2014
 I have seen that. 100 miles away in MI and goes to PA first.

 

RE: Do you want to see a brilliant move?, posted on January 11, 2017 at 08:35:53
Jim McShane
Dealer

Posts: 5910
Location: Chicago
Joined: January 13, 2003
 That's because the big carriers use "hub & spoke" routing. You might recall in the early days FedEx had ONE hub - Memphis. ANYTHING sent FedEx (it was Federal Express back then) - even say from Chicago to Milwaukee just 90 miles north - would go via Memphis. Now they have many more hubs as does USPS, and the cost of routing it through an efficient hub is actually lower than point-to-point routing.

 

RE: Do you want to see a brilliant move?, posted on January 11, 2017 at 10:02:28
fredtr
Audiophile

Posts: 1987
Location: Phoenix
Joined: January 4, 2005
 I'm watching one that made it to Kansas City, left, came back 6 hours later, waited 18 hours and set off again. Delivery date changed 3 times, now it shows question mark.

My favorite was a PCB, end-of-life, that I accepted an order from as part of a system for factory in Asia. I accepted the order because I found one at a surplus place that had bought out an obsolete inventory. Turned out they drop shipped it from 60 miles away and it never showed up here. I had it tracked, complained etc., they sent my money back which I didn't care about, it was the order which I accepted that was the problem. I spent lots of hours trying to find another one anywhere in the world. Four months later the one I ordered shows up at my door. Shipper delivered to wrong place, sat in a warehouse somewhere until someone tripped over it, realized it wasn't theirs and returned it to shipper.

Decided I should be in the shipping business, would fit right in.

 

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