You are going the wrong way!!

[Nevada Ed]

Have some bullets coming from Idaho to Nevada..........

Just tracked them and found out that their first stop was..............

Washington !!

What's with that?

Bummer.........

 

[AveragEd]

I live in south-central Pennsylvania. When I order something from Smith & Wesson in Massachusetts, it travels via FedEx right past our home and a FedEx Ground terminal on nearby I-81 to Martinsburg, West Virginia where it is handed off to the U.S. Mail and travels back up I-81 to our post office.

I recently bought a handgun from a dealer in Tennessee. It traveled via the USPS right past our post office to one in Newark, New Jersey from where it went to Philthadelphia and then back here.

I guess that makes sense to somebody.

Ed

 

[venomballistics]

we get to see where our packages were, are, and or en route to.
what we do not see are the vehicles and facilities.
the local post office probably cannot take a 747, rail freight, or cargo ship, and may even have issues dealing with an 18 wheeler ... thus they go on to facilities that can.

 

[thadheth]

Let's hope that when you get them reloaded they know the correct direction to travel!

 

[venomballistics]

Let's hope that when you get them reloaded they know the correct direction to travel!

he can probably count on it ... by the time he gets them, they will have exhausted every other possible alternative

 

[JBnTx]

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but it's not necessarily the cheapest.

Packages are shipped the cheapest way, not the shortest.

 

[Mike McLellan]

Watching the routing can be a little perplexing, but the idea that you can track a package from its sender to your front door, to me, is mind boggling. In the not too distant past, packages went into Limbo, and surfaced, with a little luck, sometime later. Even insured packages went to the twilight zone for a few weeks. Today, we got it made.

 

[2ndAmendmentNut]

Not that long ago I received an email saying a package I had ordered thru Amazon had been delivered. The package was not there when I got home so I checked the tracking number. Sure enough the package had made it to my hometown and then got processed as "out for delivery." Next day it was in Laredo about 100 miles south of me, then back to my hometown. It eventually found its way to my door 4-5 days later.

 

[Ross3914]

I work in the industry. It may look strange on a computer screen if you don't know what's going on, but it's the cheapest/quickest way.

It has nothing to do with state lines, and everything to do with cost.

For example, a truck with a thousand packages on it enroute from a center to another center is not going to stop at someone's house on the way. It's filled for capacity, not delivery. Think of why a gas tanker drives by your house and doesn't stop at your driveway to fill your car enroute to the gas station.

Generally, linehaul actions take place between hubs and spokes and between hubs. A service center in one town and a service center in another may or may not be handled by the same hub. So it may have to go from hub to hub until it gets to one that does. That may be in another state. Statelines don't really concern the carriers. It's all about how much freight gets moved down that lane that dictates how something travels.

For example, from the end-of-the-line center I work at, your package is going to either someplace in VA, NC, MD or PA first. That's where our servicing hubs lanes are. It's all about freight density. If you live in WV, a shipment might drive right by your house on I-81 to MD to be sorted at that hub and then on to your end-of-the-line center to be sorted again for local routes and delievered.

So sometimes it looks crazy, and sometimes it really is crazy, but you can bet with the bean counters in this industry, it's going the cheapest way.

 

[SMSgt]

It's called a major distribution center. Like an airline hub--not going anywhere until you pass thru the hub.

 

[Jaymo]

I hate when that happens.

 

[novalty]

I recently sold a Redding T7 turret press and some other reloading items to a gentleman in Kentucky. The package weighed 31 lbs. It shipped from Maine, and went to Washington then to Ohio, then to Kentucky.

 

[rwsmith]

Everything goes through the main plants/hubs

The main plants are set up as heavy volume distributors. It's cheaper to have the big, fast, automated machinery in one big place rather than a lot of little places. It's a lot more efficient than getting to your house town by town. With that being said, some of the routes these packages take are still puzzling.

 

[SMSgt]

As long as UPS gets my orders to me faster and cheaper than the USPS, I'll not complain about how they do it.

 

[forestswin]

c'mon guys ----your logical explanations make too much sense--

let Nevada complain some or howl at the plane as it goes over head

he just wants his bullets

 

[riverrat38]

I was checking a tracking website to see when I would get a package.
It said that delivery was complete.
I went to my front door, and it was on the porch.
I hadn't heard the truck. They don't knock, just leave the package on the porch and run.

Best,
Rick

 

[Nevada Ed]

Well I have to admit that back in the 60's I worked in the
Pacific Freeport warehouse in Sparks Nevada.

My job was the West coast distributer for Sylvania TV and stereo's. I set up the bill of ladings and routing and the shipping was done by ups, trucking outfits and rail, from California all the way to Louisiana, some times.

Snowing here at 10:45pm Friday night........
Stay safe and warm.

 

[CGT80]

I am waiting for my Dillon 550 to come back from a rebuild. It is being shipped by Fedex. It arrived in Bloomington, Ca (10 minutes from my house) yesterday, from Phoenix, Az. This morning it went to Riverside (20+ minutes away) just to be put on a truck and out for delivery to me, in Fontana.

It probably was on a full size semi load from Arizona to Bloomington, and I assume Bloomington doesn't have local delivery trucks. I think I recall other packages coming out of Riverside for delivery.

It is not about close, or quick, as much as it is about cost.

 

[gsm73]

If you ordered form Rocky Mountain reloading they are close to the ID WA border.