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Topic	I'll never understand how this is more economical or efficient...
captpackrat 11/09/21 6:45:04 AM #1:	...for shipping companies to send packages on crazy long trips instead of direct to the destination. My package from Amazon was shipped out of Bondurant, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa. The destination is near Omaha, Nebraska, about 150 miles and 2-1/4 hours away down Interstate 80. So why the heck did UPS route it through Rockford, Illinois, for a total of 688 miles and 14 hours travel time? It literally had to go back down the same Interstate! Even if they used aircraft that still would be less efficient, it's 3 hours worth of flights to go from Des Moines to Rockford to Omaha, not counting the loading and unloading required at Rockford. From the timing it looks like they trucked it to Rockford, then flew it to Omaha. If you're going to truck it halfway across Iowa and halfway across Illinois, why not just send it halfway across Iowa in the other direction? --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:959831567] in I'll never... [t:79750762]...</cite> <quote>...for shipping companies to send packages on crazy long trips instead of direct to the destination. My package from Amazon was shipped out of Bondurant, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa. The destination is near Omaha, Nebraska, about 150 miles and 2-1/4 hours away down Interstate 80. So why the heck did UPS route it through Rockford, Illinois, for a total of 688 miles and 14 hours travel time? It literally had to go back down the same Interstate! Even if they used aircraft that still would be less efficient, it's 3 hours worth of flights to go from Des Moines to Rockford to Omaha, not counting the loading and unloading required at Rockford. From the timing it looks like they trucked it to Rockford, then flew it to Omaha. If you're going to truck it halfway across Iowa and halfway across Illinois, why not just send it halfway across Iowa in the other direction? --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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