You want your order to be the final one on the final pallet going into the
shipment, not the first order on the first pallet.
From: Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Rotary table indexer project
Actually it is more sophisticated than that. The e-packet delivery system
is a deal between China and the US. The packages are collected and sorted
in china by US zip code and delivered to the final post office. The US
post office skips the normal sorting and shipping and saves some money.
Kind of the way bulk mail is sent. Also the US post office saves money
because the tracking information data entry is done in China and sent to
the US postal computer system electronically. It pushes some of the
manual work, except the "last mile delivery" onto the sender. They also
send the packages in batches so that many packages are moved at once. Like
palletized fright.
The down side is that it can take a few days, maybe two weeks for a batch
to accumulate in China before it ships. Sometimes I luck out and get a
package in three or four days, I guess because my package was the last one
to fill the pallet.
it's air freight, not on a ship.
There is a private company that does something like this in India. They
place first class US domestic postage on packages then place the packages
on pallets and ship them to the US where the pallets are busted up and
dropped in the US mail. So Indian companies can ship to the US for little
more than the US domestic rate
So really they CAN air freight a small padded envelope from China to
California for a few cents because thousands of these are stuffed into one
box
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