Saturday, October 18, 2014

Weird Mail

Anyone else notice mail being a bit slow lately? Maybe it's just me but it seemed as if at least some the checks I received as payments showed up a bit late this month. I'm wondering if they're already routing our mail through Medford(?).

Some of the checks I usually receive early in the month didn't show up. That's not too unusual. Then on the 15th I received maybe four checks. All were postdated the 14th but two of the checks were dated a week earlier, and that's for mail originating in Eureka. So, a week to get a letter from two blocks away. 

If it is the shutting down of the Eureka main office and re- routing to Oregon, it does strike me as odd. I believe Federal Express sends all their packages back east before delivering them locally.

Saw a news clip on a Bay Area TV station about it a few years ago. The guy was doing a segment on FedEx and had a FedEx delivery guy standing there with him. He asks the FedEx guy if he wanted to mail his package to a building across the street, where does it go after it leaves his office. The delivery guy said it went to their San Jose(?) center, then was flown to their main routing center in Pennsylvania(?) then back to San Jose where it would be delivered the next day. All that just to send a box across the street.

FedEx makes it work, assuming they're still doing it that way. Wonder why the post office can't? Not that I really care. When the checks get here, they get here. It's not that big of a deal. Just wondering

3 Comments:

At 11:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This will be especially fun during the next election. I bet there will be an earlier deadline for absentee ballots or it will take longer to count them. Fed ex makes it work because congress doesn't require them to allocate medical and retirement for the next sixty five years without raising their prices or changing their business hours.

 
At 11:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Memphis World Hub Facts

The FedEx World Hub covers 862.8 acres alongside the Memphis International Airport.
The FedEx Memphis World Hub has a sorting capacity of 160,000 packages per hour and 265,000 documents per hour.
The FedEx World Hub has 42 miles of conveyor belts.
The FedEx World Hub has 108 gates for wide body planes, 44 gates for narrow body planes, and 44 gates for small “feeder” planes.
As the evening sort begins at the FedEx World Hub, FedEx planes land at the rate of one every 90 seconds.
On April 17, 1973, Federal Express launched operations in Memphis with 14 small aircraft delivering 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities.
Today, the Memphis World Hub is the flagship of FedEx Express hubs in Indianapolis, Newark, Oakland, Fort Worth, Anchorage, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Cologne, Germany and Guangzhou, China.

 
At 11:37 AM, Blogger Fred Mangels said...

So it's Memphis, no somewhere in Pennsylvania.

 

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