I'm glad I don't do IT for a shipping company

[thewayne]

the "logic" would drive me (more) insane bigly.

I ordered some stuff from Amazon. Here's the latest shipping update.

Shipped with UPS
Tracking ID 1Z2FW8240xxxxxx

Saturday, March 23 1:53 PM
Package has left the carrier facility
Louisville, KY US

Friday, March 22 1:20 PM
Package arrived at a carrier facility

Louisville, KY US 6:01 AM
Package has left the carrier facility

Oakland, CA US 4:10 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility

Oakland, CA US 2:43 AM
Package has left the carrier facility

Lathrop, CA US
Thursday, March 21 10:58 PM
Package arrived at a carrier facility

Lathrop, CA US
Package has shipped

Now, the package shipped from California. It is being delivered to New Mexico. To the best of my knowledge, unless there has been a radical change in the physical universe, there is one state between California and New Mexico and Kentucky is a few states further east. The package is slated to be delivered Monday, it'll be interesting to see if it goes to El Paso and up or Albuquerque and down to Las Cruces and over.

It's like my meds. They ship from El Paso via UPS. El Paso is 2 hours south of me. For next day delivery, they fly to Albuquerque, about 4 hours north of me, are trucked down to Las Cruces, 2.5 hours S of ABQ, then trucked to Alamogordo, 1 hour East of 'Cruces, then up the mountain to me, another half an hour. One year they got misrouted somehow and took a tour of California for a few days, fortunately it was after the meds had switched to the much more tolerant of temperature version. I should look up the email that described the route that they took, it was quite a meandering path.

Comments

[moonhare]

I’ve had two packages go awry from Amazon. One was shipped from China and three weeks after finally cancelling the order, the item arrived.

The second, a Prime shipment, went all over the Northeast for five or six days but ended up in New Jersey in a town with the same name as ours. It, too, arrived days later and they said keep it (along with my re-order)- so we have an extra vacuum cleaner in a box in the basement still :D

[thewayne]

Good thing to have a spare vacuum, you never know when one might be needed! ;-)  Obligatory Microsoft joke: The only time that they will ever make a product that won't suck is if they ever start making vacuum cleaners. :-)

[bibliofile]

Yeah, I see the influence perhaps of the 1980s MBAs in determining that large, centralized depots were supposed to be more efficient than shipping everything every which way. I remain dubious.

I hope your meds arrived, in any case.