Shipping inefficiencies

[szasz]

You'd think that, living in Urbana, ordering something from a company also here in Urbana would cause the package to go from company to the local UPS depot, and then get sorted onto a local delivery truck.

But no, it instead gets funneled out of Urbana to the huge UPS processing facility near Chicago, where it spent a couple of hours before

Comments

[tskirvin]

Ramjet, a C-U company, would drop things off about half of the time rather than deal with the shipping weirdness.

Me, I just miss ordering stuff from CDW-G and having it get there the next morning (as long as you didn't order it 2-day UPS, in which case they'd sit on it for a day).

[szasz]

I did indeed order this from Ramjet, but given the stream of rather formal canned emails from them while they were processing my order, I think they've gotten too big for that kind of thing.

[tskirvin]

Good for them?

[szasz]

I guess. I can't really complain about the service I've gotten from them.