Has anyone else experienced utter frustration with the ways USPS sends packages? From MrSnuffs location in Plattsburgh, NY to my house is at the very most a six hour drive. If you’d like to come in and give your own time estimate Dave, I’m in the Poughkeepsie area of NY. Yet, every time I order from MrSnuff and choose USPS for delivery, I watch the tracking page and just cannot believe it. From Plattsburgh, it goes to Springfield, Ma for some reason. From there, they drive it past my house down to New Jersey, and then it comes up to me. They take a one or two day trip, and make it five or six. I realise MrSnuff can’t control this, but I just have to wonder what they’re thinking with that route.
I used to fly a lot on Continental airlines and it seemed like wherever you flew, you had to go through Newark! That’s just the way it is. There isn’t a guy on a horse waiting to take your package from point a to point b, anymore. They call it logistics, it seems crazy but actually make sense in a weird way. : )
I seem to have a logistics degree around here someplace. Must have misplaced it… Something to do with ecoonomies of scale, I beleive. Makes no sense on small scales of course, but when 100,000 parcels per day have to get wrangled…well, what miamimark said.
A letter from Somerset West to Strand - 5km apart - takes 8 days. The letter goes to Cape Town, 50 km away, and then it is re-routed to Strand. A letter from CapeTown to Strand - 50 km apart - will be delivered within 24 hours. Most of us use courier services, more expensive but less frustration.
It’s makes a lot of sense the same way it makes sense that a bus takes you to all the stops you don’t need to go to before it gets you too work where a cab might take you right there. It makes sense to you when you are on a bus because you see all the people getting on and off of it. So you understand that the bus that goes from North A street to South Z Street has to stop at a bunch of out of the way places even though it could do a straight shot to South Z street. It’s the same with your package you just don’t see the packages and where they are going. So imagine how stupid it would be if the bus took each person right to their stop as soon as they got on it would not make much sense. I guess I’am saying that if you looked at each day and what typicaly happens you’d say good thing it goes over here because otherwise it would cost a lot more and take more time. I hope the bus metaphor makes sense as I’am still very sleepy first cuppa coffee and still haven’t snuffed yet.
I understand the bus metaphor, but I’d still don’t see why it gets sent to Mass. Mass is chosen as a sorting facility for it, despite there being another one much closer to MrSnuff in Albany. There isn’t one nearer to my house than the one in NJ, so I can understand that part. It’s just sending packages from upstate NY to Mass for sorting doesn’t make too much sense to me when there is a much nearer on basically dead centre in Albany. Also, this.
CA to FL and back to CA. I think someone put it on the wrong truck or plane by mistake. I doubt that was part of the intended route.
Xander maybe right. You just have to think bigger picture. There is probably more mail going from it’s orgin to various place outside of albany and so it’s much more cost effective and fuel effective to send a bulk amount of mail further away and then send it from there. To put it simply the more pieces of mail on a truck or plane the more effective. Basicly as illogical as it sounds it would cost more for your package to take a straight line. Multiple that several times and the cost of a stamp will go up by more then a few cents.
When the american snuff retailers have finished relocating to england your snuff will be sent via royal mail. From the UK to anywhere in the US in five days !
Cheer up ol boy in just a little over a week there will be NO MORE usps deliveries of snuff thanks to PACT
So the Royal Mail operates in the US now? I think not.
I should hope not. I rather like my postal service not striking whenever they feel like it. Bring in Pinkerton’s Detective Agency and some scabs, I say!
Nah, slaves work for even less. Or we could outsource to China. Shoot them if the get uppity. Go back to the dark ages.
Its incoming mail only. I have sent packets to the US with Royal Mail with no problems.
I take it from our british brethren that right after the royal is an invisible nut implied “pain in the” as in Royal pain in the mail.