If you live in a 100mile vicinity of Oakland, CA, Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA, or Ontario, CA your phone will be coming from Anchorage to those cities. Then trucked to your home. IF you are east coast it will be going to the Memphis hub from Anchorage to be put on another plane to your closest airport.
Not always. My bumper did the China-Alaska-Memphis route before heading through Seattle. Still got here faster than this damn phone, which appears to be spending a second night in Anchorage.