Strange UPS route?

[conklaven]

So I live in Memphis TN and one of my iPhone's journey started in mt Juliet tn then continued onto Nashville.

I figured it would got straight from Nashville to Memphis. (Like a three hour drive.) instead it's gone all the way to Louisville. I understand this is their hub but what a waste of fuel.

Any one else see similar routing?

 

[Steve686]

Mount Juliet to Louisville. Arrived at 8:44pm on the 17th. Same as yours?

I have been tracking for 3 or 4 days now. It has always been in Mount Juliet til this point.

Maybe since it is Next Day Air, they UPS uses Louisville as a main air transfer hub?

 

[powerstrokin]

Louisville is a main hub for the region I'm sure. I'm near Indianapolis and my 6 is coming out of Louisville via 2-day air.

 

[Steve686]

I also think this helps Apple coordinate with the shipping partners to avoid as much as possible, early deliveries.

 

[TJ82]

UPS playin' wit you.

Jack that SOB, and get your dues son.

 

[nightlove7]

I'm in OH....mine went from PA to NJ back to PA and back to NJ a 2nd time....now sitting in NJ farther from OH.

 

[bradl]

I've had worse. I'm in Sacramento, and had my 3G go from PANC to KSDF, even though UPS has a west coast hub at KONT.

So mine went clear across the country when it could have gone to Ontario and then an hour flight north.

BL.

 

[appledes7]

Nashville to Louisville here too!

 

[kds786]

Most everything I've ever ordered that is shipped UPS will go through Louisville at some point. Same thing for things shipped FedEx going through Memphis a lot of the time.

 

[mrpapageorgio]

Not an iPhone shipment, but I've had probably one of the strangest routes on something I shipped through good ole USPS. I was shipping a textbook I sold online from one Chicago suburb to another Chicago suburb. The book went from Chicago to Pittsburgh and back to Chicago before reaching its final destination.

 

[Udai252525]

Fast forward to 2020, ordered AirPods Pro, and went Hong Kong - Taiwan - Alaska - Kentucky, and back to Hong Kong, while the destination was Princeton, NJ. It’s Tuesday evening, and it says that it will reach by Thursday, though seems unlikely at this rate.