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Posted by Von Fourche on 02/17/06 05:48
"Jim" <jamesrw@att.net> wrote in message
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> We have been Netflix customers from about two months now. and we have
> noticed something curious about the service. We live in Hawaii, and at
> first the Netflix DVDs would arrive in a return envelope that said it was
> from "Nearest Netflix center" with a Honolulu address. Very nice. And
> yes, the service was fast.
>
> And then today we returned the latest DVD that we watched last night, and
> guess what????? Surprise!!! The return address for the DVD was "Nearest
> Netflix center" in COLORADO. Not the nearest, seems to me.
>
> There are a number of possibilities here:
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> 1. The DVD had to come from (and be returned to) the Colorado center
> because it was the only place it was available. Possibly, it might not
> have been a very popular selection.
>
> 2. Netflix is now letting the USPS throttle things down by deliberately
> routing the requests to Netflix processing centers that are far enough
> away so that it is guaranteed to take an extra day or two. If we see a
> lot more of our Netflix DVDs from faraway places, then that is probably
> the case.
>
> 3. Even Machaivelli says not to suspect a conspiracy when incompetence is
> obvious, but I think that this is not one of those cases. Netflix seems
> to be pretty well organized so that if they are using a routing algorithm
> that automatically delays things this way, it is probably on purpose.
All of my disks come from and go to the Netlfix Indy shipping
department. I did order Have Gun Will Travel Season 1 Disk One a few weeks
ago and it came from Colorado. I just had The Rat Patrol Season One Disk
One and it came from Indy.
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