Posted by Cp33 on 12/07/05 03:15

Returning your rental to a distant center? This doesn't make much
sense to me. Netflix has been implementing the distribution rule that
if the title is not available at your local center but available from
another center it will be sent from there directly to you, and the
titles always return to your local center. This works best according
to probability laws: certain kind of titles (e.g. say spanish movies)
are more likely to have a larger audiences at areas where the
population of spanish speaking population are largest, therefore, by
always returning to the local center, the allocation of titles should
be optimum such that the chance that a title you want is available
locally is highest.
I wonder if this is another of those tactics to slow down the delivery
and reduce the number of titles we receive in average. :-(

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