Boy, do I love FedEx

[viktor_haag]

So, I order a new Mac from the Canadian online Apple Store. It has shipped, via FedEx.

It shipped from Ontario. Where has it gone? Well, FedEx tracking very carefully tracks it going from Ontario (where I live) to Memphis Tennessee where it spent the weekend, and then north, back over the border to... (wait for it)... Winnipeg, Manitoba. Where I do not live.

I am baffled. I sort of understand the math involved in shipping problems that has "all packages go through Memphis" be a bit efficient. But surely to heavens to Betsy there's little efficiency to be had in taking my package from a depot which is almost certainly 100km from where I live to Memphis (out of the country) and then to Winnipeg (which might just be about the same distance from my front door as Memphis is...)?

I'm not at all convinced that it wouldn't have been better to ship my, somewhat fragile, package by a FedEx surface truck from Mississauga or Toronto (where the Apple North warehouse almost certainly is) to my place of business here in Waterloo.

::boggle::

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I had it within four days, and I could have paid for more expedited shipping. As it was, it travelled our continent back and forth twice before I got it, but it did arrive in a reasonably timely fashion.

As for the condition -- well, it was reasonably well packed, but it still looks travelled. I just hope the contained parts are in good shape (i.e. the internal HDD).

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

I don't see any reason why the laptop should look travelled, Viktor, not if it was packed properly.

Have you used the machine yet, or seen whether it's working fine?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

It's a mini, not a laptop, and it was the box itself that looked travelled. The machine inside seems to have survived just fine, thank-you. Of course, any troubles with the HDD will be covered under warranty (for a few years), so that should be OK.

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the misunderstanding, Viktor. I'm glad to hear that the machine is surviving fine. :)

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

No offense taken... 8)