Mick wrote:
> Since this is the gentoo-user mailing list I better explain that routing of
> parcels is performed so as to minimise journeys (hence fuel and driver costs)
> for the company, rather than minimise delivery time for the end customer.
> Usually they may delay a journey to make sure that the lorries always run full
> of goods back and forth.  Service level agreements may mean that they will on
> occasion run less full than they would like to so as to not exceed maximum
> delivery timescales.
>
> I am led to believe that this is the case even when the goods are to be used
> on a PC running Gentoo Linux ...   ;-)
>    

I'm aware of the way they do things and it can even make it look weird.  
Thing is, it went probably a thousand miles to end up across town if 
even across town.  For all I know, newegg and the Post Office could be 
within blocks of each other.  How they could argue that would be cost 
efficient is beyond me.  I could see one out of the way hop to their 
main hub but with them, it appears that they have many main hubs.

I have to say tho, this is not just DHL.  This is a package that is on 
the way here now.  This is so weird.  lol

Memphis, TN, United States 	02/18/2011 	4:30 A.M. 	Departure Scan

	02/18/2011 	4:16 A.M. 	Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 	02/18/2011 	4:15 A.M. 	Departure Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 	02/17/2011 	11:55 P.M. 	Arrival Scan
DFW Airport, TX, United States 	02/17/2011 	9:13 P.M. 	Departure Scan
DFW Airport, TX, United States 	02/16/2011 	10:35 A.M. 	Arrival Scan
Newark, NJ, United States 	02/16/2011 	7:51 A.M. 	Departure Scan

	02/16/2011 	3:21 A.M. 	Arrival Scan
Secaucus, NJ, United States 	02/16/2011 	2:30 A.M. 	Departure Scan
Secaucus, NJ, United States 	02/15/2011 	10:14 P.M. 	Arrival Scan
Edison, NJ, United States 	02/15/2011 	9:29 P.M. 	Departure Scan

	02/15/2011 	6:54 P.M. 	Origin Scan
United States 	02/15/2011 	12:06 A.M. 	Order Processed: Ready for UPS



It left the east coast area, went to Texas, went back to Kentucky, then 
back to Memphis and is on the way here.  Me, I would have put a 
parachute on the thing and dropped it off at Kentucky when I flew over 
it the first time.  lol   If they sort of flew to the right a bit, they 
could have dropped it in Memphis.

Oh, It left Kentucky and was in Memphis in ONE MINUTE.  If UPS has a 
plane that fast, they bought the SR-71 or something.  By my math, that's 
moving about 20,000 miles a hour.  O_O

My other package that went by DHL, no record of it being shipped yet.  
I'll start worrying tomorrow I think.

With what I got ordered and sort of on the way, I'll be maxed out at 
16Gbs and have a nice battery charger.  The memory is for Gentoo Linux 
and no idea if the charger has a OS at all.  Heck, it may.  There is a 
guitar that runs Gentoo remember?

Weird days.

Dale

:-)  :-)