I just checked on a handgun purchase from Gun Broker. The seller sent it to me in California yesterday from Washington state. I checked this morning, expecting it to say arrived in L.A. since CA and WA are on the same coast. Instead it says it arrived in Memphis TN. The estimated delivery date is next Monday.No wonder they charge so much, shipping packages half way across the country for no logical reason.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Yup. Their hub is in Memphis, but you'd think they'd have flights between neighboring states.

profitable business.It;s probably much cheaper for them to have one central sorting facility and they can still get it to you in time.
I have customers agonizing over the direction their packages go via USPS; but with well over 50,000 packages shipped, we have had very few late and I can count what THEY have lost on one hand. When Runion initiated Priority mail, free boxes free pick up he made the PO competitive. The PO would still be solvent but for the will of the Democrats.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

just north of Memphis. All shoes except those going to Footlocker and clothes as well. The concept works so well for them that they are building a million+ square foot facility next to the shoe distribution facility for the clothing line. They already have one there but are putting them side by side to realize MORE savings. It works for them!

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Sincerely,

Hobie

they are a profitable business. Just seems kinda wierd. It'd be as if I started out to pay you a visit, but went through Butte Montana first. So long as la pistola (G26) shows up at the FFL's, I'll be happy.

NM

My bet is it got misrouted. I've had that happen a few times with Fedex. They've always made it right, though. Refunded my money one time without my asking.

Yep, and if you have ever been at the Holiday Inn - Airport in Memphis about 2 AM, it sounds like SAC launching a maximum effort nuclear strike to beat the incoming Russian ICBMs. FedEx jets rolling at about 60 second intervals for almost an hour.

Back in April we ordered books for my wife's online college courses she'll be taking this summer. Ordered them ASAP after they confirmed her enrolment in the classes so we'd have a chance to get 'em in plenty of time. Paid close to $100 for priority super fast international. Went online after a couple days to check their progress - they were sitting in Chile. At least they got the seaboard right, but the extreme opposite end of the continent, for crying out loud! No wonder the PO's got problems, they've hired geographically challenged folks to run the place. Yesterday we finally got word that the package is sitting in customs, now to wait for the efficient government workers to "do their thing" and send it on down to Coffee Country.

At least your incident has a plausible explanation (one national sorting hub). I can't for the life of me understand how the USPS messed up our package destination. Oh, and classes started on Monday - sans books except for the ONE title we were able to order in Kindle format.

It is the basic principal behind most successful airlines in the last 100 years.

In 2001, I was flying from Ontario, Calif. to Bangor, Maine. The very young lady ticket agent asked me for my passport. When I asked her why I needed a passport to go to Maine. She said because her computer said it was an international flight, followed by "Where is Maine?" I told her Maine was the last U.S. state before Canada, in the northeast corner of the U.S. Blank look. "Do you know where Massachusetts is?" I asked. Blank look. About this time, she called over an older ticket agent, explained that I didn't have a passport, and that it was an international flight. The older agent looked at the computer screen, and informed the younger one, "That's the name of the airport, Bangor International." I still wonder if she ever learned where Maine is located.
That younger agent probably works for USPS these days.