Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/09/07 20:59

dgates wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 04:30:00 -0500, "def456" <def456@none.none> wrote:
>
>
>>Netflix has been remarkably good and reliable since I joined 6 months ago,
>>until just recently...
>>
>>They've started delaying shipment of movies til the next day, after they
>>receive a movie back from me. In the past they've almost always shipped a
>>new movie the same day. Now most are delayed shipment til the next day.
>>
>>Anybody else seeing this problem?
>>
>>I asked them, and their response was that those movies were being shipped
>>from a different location, rather than my usual "hub" (presumably the
>>closest office location). I don't think that's logical nor a valid reason
>>for a shipping delay.

Remember, every movie that's shipped out of state has to first be
*located* out of state--
And then the determination whether it's ready to ship out there, or
whether your #2 movie is local enough to send and spare the trouble.

> Recently, I've received a couple emails from them saying "Hang on an
> extra day, partner! We've gotta ship that movie to ya from some other
> state." And I never used to receive those.

Never received those either:
They've only recently had to add "For Friday: [Your movie] From Denver,
CO" (or wherever), on e-mails for any movies not sent from the local
region, when they had to import the title from out of state--

Simmply BECAUSE they'd been getting so many "No throttling!...Are you
throttling!--Well, don't throttle!" whiners who had no idea what that
word they'd heard about meant, but didn't know why one of their movies
was taking longer to arrive than another.

Derek Janssen (who can understand if a back-catalog movie takes longer
to arrive from Honolulu, HI than a new-release from Hartford, CT)
ejanss@comcast.net

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