With RFID technology, the plane just needs request a low flyby of the sorting center and they’ll know exactly when to eject your package over the destination. It’s the postmaster general’s daughter that usually causes all the delays.
Hmm it is likely no more than a 4.5 hour drive from near Cleveland, NE along the great lakes to Rochester, NY and it took 5 days. I think a turtle was involved in that portion of the transportation. The teletranpoters must be in NY and CO. OH is behind the times.
@Kidsandliz the OH to NY time, I’m less surprised about, especially the express delivery options used by Meh. Since the hurricane even the northern routes are slower. Probably taking a lot of the mail that would otherwise be routed through the storm zone.
@Kidsandliz Maybe OH has decided that like so many other things, hauling parcels overland on a wagon drawn by an ox was goid enough for their ancestors, so it’s good enough for anybody that isn’t them.
@ybmuG I begin to suspect that there is a sorting center in Rochester that has no assigned locality name, so their lookup returns the alphabetically-first place name in some database that USPS maintains. And that’s a weird name for it to fetch, because trying a zip lookup on that “city and state” returns no results. However, USPS prides itself on having the absolutely-most-extensive place database for the US, so even an extinct town might well be in it. I know that a few years back, I discovered two Zip codes in New Mexico for localities whose territory had an official population of zero, and no active structures except for a couple of railroad sidings with a small shack beside them. Neither appeared to contain any deliverable addresses.
The “esoteric alphabetically-first place name” idea sounds kinda plausible, but it isn’t even the first alphabetically in Colorado (Wikipedia lists Abarr and Abbey, both also extinct but still lasted longer than Abbeyville).
Faster NY to CO than moving through a sort facility… that checks out.
With RFID technology, the plane just needs request a low flyby of the sorting center and they’ll know exactly when to eject your package over the destination. It’s the postmaster general’s daughter that usually causes all the delays.
Maverick
@kuoh “Maverick”? Did i miss something?
@ybmuG Just trying to get your package there on time.
Mav
@kuoh after I posted, I wondered about that. Just a little slow on the uptake on a Monday evening!
@kuoh I prefer Hot Shots!
@werehatrack Those guys are the reason your packages take a detour in the wrong direction.
Topper
Hmm it is likely no more than a 4.5 hour drive from near Cleveland, NE along the great lakes to Rochester, NY and it took 5 days. I think a turtle was involved in that portion of the transportation. The teletranpoters must be in NY and CO. OH is behind the times.
@Kidsandliz the OH to NY time, I’m less surprised about, especially the express delivery options used by Meh. Since the hurricane even the northern routes are slower. Probably taking a lot of the mail that would otherwise be routed through the storm zone.
@Kidsandliz Maybe OH has decided that like so many other things, hauling parcels overland on a wagon drawn by an ox was goid enough for their ancestors, so it’s good enough for anybody that isn’t them.
Time zones add 2 hours to the NY to CO time. So 2:45 airport to airport. Still a bit quick. TravelMath estimates 3 hours, 42 minutes.
We remember time zones, right?
@PocketBrain except they all say “ET”
@ybmuG I think that might be a glitch of the tracker. it’s pulling times and reporting them all as local. But the system is hosed either way.
Ooo, you may never get that package!
@Kyeh well, that might explain the unnatural travel
Well, coming back was even faster!
Especially that last minute detour…
@ybmuG I begin to suspect that there is a sorting center in Rochester that has no assigned locality name, so their lookup returns the alphabetically-first place name in some database that USPS maintains. And that’s a weird name for it to fetch, because trying a zip lookup on that “city and state” returns no results. However, USPS prides itself on having the absolutely-most-extensive place database for the US, so even an extinct town might well be in it. I know that a few years back, I discovered two Zip codes in New Mexico for localities whose territory had an official population of zero, and no active structures except for a couple of railroad sidings with a small shack beside them. Neither appeared to contain any deliverable addresses.
@werehatrack i suspect tomfoolery, shenanigans, buffoonery…
of just plain laziness
See @kyeh’s post above. You may be on to something
@werehatrack 2 for 2! Maybe it’s the first week of a trainee
The “esoteric alphabetically-first place name” idea sounds kinda plausible, but it isn’t even the first alphabetically in Colorado (Wikipedia lists Abarr and Abbey, both also extinct but still lasted longer than Abbeyville).