Strange Shipping......

[emsvitil]

Recently I had an item shipped from Fresno (Marlin) to my parents house in Bakersfield, rather than Los Angeles.


The shipping costs were slightly cheaper which is what you would expect....



BUT:

When I tracked the package, it went all the way down South to Los Angeles, then back North to Bakersfield.....



EXPLAIN THAT..     

[bleakhorizon]

i cant lol... but i can tell yea if i was to send a letter to my neighbor, it would have to make at least a 100 mile round trip... crazy

[79coyotefrg]

shipping companies have drop yards all over the country it doesnt surprise me your package went to LA.  you cant expect a semi truck with one pallet of packages for Bakersfield to stop there when it can go to its terminal in LA, drop the trailer so dock hands can unload it and put all the Bakersfield packages on one delivery truck and send them out.

now if it had went to Seattle i could see a problem.

[emsvitil]

It just seems strange that it's cheaper to send it to Bakersfield than Los Angeles when the Bakersfield package is going farther.

Or why isn't the Los Angeles package cheaper since there's less handling...............