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

:-) :-)