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Aml216 said:
Same here!
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Yup, OAK airport next stop!
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I know that's the way the hubs works, going to Louisville or Memphis (Fedex), but still...its messed up that it has to go from Alaska to Kentucky, then back to Cali. That's a huge waste of fuel.
 
Rafterman said:
I know that's the way the hubs works, going to Louisville or Memphis (Fedex), but still...its messed up that it has to go from Alaska to Kentucky, then back to Cali. That's a huge waste of fuel.
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Not really. It's all logistics. It would be way less fuel efficient to send small chunks of packages to individual locations. UPS can get hundreds of thousands of devices on a single plane and then use the hub to disperse accordingly.

I'm not an expert by any means but there is literal science behind this kind of stuff.
 
duelingdragons said:
Not really. It's all logistics. It would be way less fuel efficient to send small chunks of packages to individual locations. UPS can get hundreds of thousands of devices on a single plane and then use the hub to disperse accordingly.

I'm not an expert by any means but there is literal science behind this kind of stuff.
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Yes, its very controlled. Like UPS drivers only making right hand turns 90 percent of the time. But I always thought they could use a second hub in the midwest. Louisville to serve east of the Mississippi and the second hub, west of it.
 
Rafterman said:
but still...its messed up that it has to go from Alaska to Kentucky, then back to Cali. That's a huge waste of fuel.
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No, it's not. What would be a waste of fuel is to send one cargo plane from Anchorage to Los Angeles, another plane from Anchorage to San Francisco, another from Anchorage to wherever.... when the cargo is just what came from China on a previous flight. The flight from China to Anchorage and then to Louisville is likely full (at least the couriers WANT them to be full planes). The cargo plan from Louisville to LA is hopefully full (not just iPhones either !), Louisville to San Francisco, Portland, Phoenix, Denver, and so on and on should be the same.
 
So excited ... finally ... in the US!! Yay!!
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Still dark here in Anchorage, 27 degrees and the streets are a little icy. Beehive of activity out at the airport. I should have a phone in a warehouse out there but probably don't thanks to Apple's compounded incompetence.
 
Aml216 said:
My phone departed from Anchorage on 4:30pm on 10/31. Next stop should be Louisville, I think. Yet my phone shows no arrival scan even almost two days later ... safe to assume the pallet wasn’t scanned when it arrived at Louisville?

Edit: also just noticed while there is a departure scan out of Anchorage there was no receiving scan in Anchorage Fromm china either.
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You will get your phone on Friday.
 
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