Weird Fedex route....

[aristocatz]

I ordered something on Etsy & the seller is from Massachusetts (same state as me, but opposite end of the state).

I was just checking the tracking & it went from the seller's post office in her town all the way to Jacksonville, FL-???

Why the heck would it just go from MA to MA?

No big deal-I'm not in a huge rush, just curious why they would go way out of the way like that-?

 

[tvguy]

I ordered something on Etsy & the seller is from Massachusetts (same state as me, but opposite end of the state).

I was just checking the tracking & it went from the seller's post office in her town all the way to Jacksonville, FL-???

Why the heck would it just go from MA to MA?

No big deal-I'm not in a huge rush, just curious why they would go way out of the way like that-?

Probably have a sorting center and Hub in Florida. Less work to do it all in one place then use the routing system for the best route. Although sometimes things get mis-routed. I ordered something from a company in San Francisco. It went San Francisco to Atlanta to Washington D.C to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Sacramento on my door step in 2 days.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Very odd. There's no distribution center in Ft. Lauderdale... but there's one in Northborough MA.

 

[bcla]

The original Federal Express used to send all overnight deliveries through their HQ in Memphis. It simplified things when they only had a single hub in roughly the middle of the country. Even so, there were overnight deliveries just 20 miles away that would travel to the middle of the country and back to the same airport, just because that's the only way they were equipped to handle it.

Now they have so much volume they can use multiple hubs and even have dedicated high-traffic routes outside of their hubs. Not sure why your delivery would go through Florida though.

I mean - once I had some tickets delivered FedEx 3rd day. Wasn't air though. It was a ground shipment from maybe 50 miles away. I was checking the progress, and it was basically being held at a warehouse for shipment on the 3rd day after getting there overnight. They were basically spending money storing this rather than undercutting their overnight services. I wasn't home on the first delivery, so I went to pick it up after it had headed back to the warehouse.

 

[aristocatz]

Weird-I guess I never knew how this stuff worked!

 

[tvguy]

This stuff all moves by air, and really their is set up just like passenger airlines are and we all know sometimes the only way to fly somewhere is crazy.

When I go to visit in the city my mom's family lives in I have to fly 800 miles past that city, change planes, and fly 800 miles back, 1,600 miles out of my way coming, 3,200 miles out of my way round trip. All to get to a city 1,200 miles from where I live.

 

[mom2rtk]

This stuff all moves by air, and really their is set up just like passenger airlines are and we all know sometimes the only way to fly somewhere is crazy.

When I go to visit in the city my mom's family lives in I have to fly 800 miles past that city, change planes, and fly 800 miles back, 1,600 miles out of my way coming, 3,200 miles out of my way round trip. All to get to a city 1,200 miles from where I live.

Yeah, on one of our trips home from Florida to Missouri, our plane had to make a stop in Chicago. I got a chuckle out of it because I had only looked at the times and price and didn't realize where we would be stopping until we got to the airport that day.

 

[Kies99]

If it makes you feel any better, I have two packages coming to me via Priority Mail from the other side of my state (PA). It's taking 4 days to get to me. I had a similar package sent Priority Mail last week from California and it arrived in 2 days.

 

[NewRVLady]

If it makes you feel any better, I have two packages coming to me via Priority Mail from the other side of my state (PA). It's taking 4 days to get to me. I had a similar package sent Priority Mail last week from California and it arrived in 2 days.

I send lots of packages Priority Mail and EXACTLY the same thing happens!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

A few times, I've had to get refrigerated medication from a pharmacy in a town in the same state (MA) that was maybe an hour away. It was mail-order only; no physical customer service area where you could just pick it up. They shipped it first thing on a Monday morning...I'd get it late Tuesday afternoon after it went up and down the entire east coast.

 

[LBIJim]

I ordered something on Etsy & the seller is from Massachusetts (same state as me, but opposite end of the state).

I was just checking the tracking & it went from the seller's post office in her town all the way to Jacksonville, FL-???

Why the heck would it just go from MA to MA?

No big deal-I'm not in a huge rush, just curious why they would go way out of the way like that-?

Many times it's more efficient and cost-effective for FedEx to ship this way. A single item from one end of MA to the other might require a dedicated vehicle. Sending it to a sorting place elsewhere where it can be grouped with other items for your part of MA is actually cheaper a lot of the time.

 

[Micca]

Your stuff is earning frequent flier miles

 

[christineann]

I tracked a priority mail envelope that I sent to my daughter a few weeks ago, and it went from Charleston, SC to Columbia, SC; Columbia, SC back to Charleston, SC; Charleston, SC to Minneapolis.