Reminds me of when I was looking at ATA's from a company called Tiger
Net. It was clearly a Chinese company, but they had an Ithaca, NY
address on the website which isn't that far from me, so I drove over
thinking "how convenient". It was just some guy's apartment near the
Cornell campus. He was a relative of somebody at the company and they
used his address to ship packages back and forth because some US
companies wouldn't ship internationally.
Anyway, I imagine the opposite of you. The size of their contract with
UPS might actually make it worthwhile to play games. Maybe there's a
regular UPS truck going down the interstate to Lexington and passing
through that small town, then maybe hitting that PO Box first with USPS
saves them a nickel with UPS. Maybe a nickel times 10,000 packages
makes a difference.
Maybe it's not playing games so much as intensely well thought
logistics.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Nate Burke" <[email protected]>
To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]>
Sent: 11/13/2017 9:59:15 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Weird Amazon Package return
I ordered a DVD from Amazon that came cracked (Prime, shipped from
Amazon), so I returned it and they sent me a new one. The UPS return
label for the damaged disk had it being sent to a PO Box at the post
office of a town of 1200 people in rural Illinois. When I checked the
tracking info from UPS, I saw that the package had been re-routed once
in UPS's possession to Lexington Ky, where I normally see Amazon
returns go. I'm perplexed as to why it was initially going to be sent
to this small town. It's like Amazon was trying to Game UPS for
cheaper shipping, but I can't imagine with the size of the contract
they surely have with UPS, it would be worth while to play games like
that.
