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"scoob" (scoobsti)
06/27/2016 at 21:15 • Filed to: Castaway, Fedex

Guess where my package is now. :D It’s supposed to go from the UK to NY. Where do you think it is now? Hint: What do you think is the most logical direction/route? The correct answer is: PARIS!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Original post from earlier:

Split window screenshot to hide the tracking number, just focus on the top. I have a package coming from Gateshead, Great Breakfast. FedEx says it shipped at 2:00 pm, which was 45 minutes ago.

They say it’ll be delivered to me in NY, USA by 10:30 am. That’s 45 minutes from now.

How is this possible?

The original delivery estimate was Wednesday, so I don’t know how/why they could cut it down 2 days if it seems way more likely to get pushed back again.

DISCUSSION (36)

CalzoneGolem > scoob
06/27/2016 at 09:52

Kinja'd!!!

E90M3 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 09:53

Looks like Fedex got their hands on a concord.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 09:53

You don’t know the ingenuity of the Gateshead people, that parcel will be on a giant trebuchet right now and ready to launch. The faster they fling that parcel over the gigantic pond to North America, the faster they get their sweet sweet crack money. I should know, I live 20 minutes away.

scoob > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
06/27/2016 at 09:55

Delivering things on a giant trebuchet needs to happen.

scoob > E90M3
06/27/2016 at 09:56

Maybe a Blackbird!

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 09:57

Just stick a mattress and some pillows outside your front door before it lands.

E90M3 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 10:02

Sir, we promised Scoob he’d have his package by 10:30 EST today. Fire up the blackbird.

scoob > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
06/27/2016 at 10:02

That’s some damn precise aiming though.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > scoob
06/27/2016 at 10:11

Here’s you’re delivery guy:

MrDakka > scoob
06/27/2016 at 11:30

That’s because you’re a Muggle. Don’t you know British people are wizards?

Svend > scoob
06/27/2016 at 11:52

Better than the US postal service then.

I sent a package stateside (NY) from Carlisle, England via Royal Mail, the next day it was at Heathrow, the day after it was at Kennedy Airport, where it sat for five days.

That’s one day to do 256miles north to south of England, one day to do 3,446miles from Heathrow to Kennedy and then five days to do 18miles from Kennedy to the place in NY.

Svend > scoob
06/27/2016 at 11:56

Geordies and Mackems have their moments of enginuity. Lol.

((I’m an hour away)).

scoob > MrDakka
06/27/2016 at 11:59

But there are British muggles.

scoob > Svend
06/27/2016 at 12:02

Utterly Stupidly Purposely Slowly.

I’ve had problems with all the shipping services, government or not.

Svend > scoob
06/27/2016 at 12:07

True but it’s great when it goes great such as ordering an item at 3pm in the evening, told it’ll take three days but arrives at 11am the following day from 150miles away. It makes me wonder if it was delivered by postal service or the person had had a bit of a sleep and then just got in the car and drove it direct to my door.

MrDakka > scoob
06/27/2016 at 12:07

Haven’t you seen Men in Black? Its like that; they have wizards working at the post office instead of aliens like we do

S65 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:20

In the Atlantic ocean

TheHondaBro > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:21

STOP SHOUTING AT ME YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME CRY

scoob > S65
06/27/2016 at 21:21

not for canada - australian in disguise > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:22

Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Dusty Ventures > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:23

Gateshead > Wherever the FedEx main Euro hub is (I would guess near London or Paris, but I could be way off) > Indy (FedEx main U.S. hub) > Newark > Greater NY sorting facility > Sorting facility that covers Brooklyn > You

That’s my guess.

Rico > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
06/27/2016 at 21:25

I laughed hard at this! wow perfect mod

scoob > TheHondaBro
06/27/2016 at 21:26

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

scoob > Dusty Ventures
06/27/2016 at 21:27

It’s in Parisssssssssssssssssssssssssss y u do dis to me FedEx #firstworldproblems

interstate366, now In The Industry > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:27

Serbia

Dusty Ventures > Svend
06/27/2016 at 21:31

That sounds like customs to me. I regularly have rally car models shipped to me from the UK, always via Royal Mail-to-USPS. Sometimes I’ll get them within a week, sometimes it takes as long as a month. The difference is always because of how long it sat in the US Customs warehouse.

scoob > interstate366, now In The Industry
06/27/2016 at 21:31

Close. Paris. Same thing, right?

Dusty Ventures > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
06/27/2016 at 21:32

How did you get this footage of me?

interstate366, now In The Industry > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:35

I’ve had packages skip states to come to me before (MD to VA via NC, for example), but that’s odd. When I get stuff sent FedEx from the UK it usually goes directly from Heathrow to the US.

Svend > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:36

How the hell is that possible. I thought the two main centres in the U.K. (West Midlands and Heathrow) would of had direct freight flights to New York and Washington (somewhere or other), maybe it’s cheaper to consolidate it in Paris with items coming from other parts of central Europe on one aircraft but can’t see how.

Dusty Ventures > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:37

It works the same way flying as a person does. Flying direct from/to every point costs too much and needs too many resources, so instead they have a handful of locations where they gather everything together and send it all on a single plane. Virtually every FedEx package going from Europe to North America goes out of that Paris location. It’s the difference between them needing one plane and charging you $XX.XX for shipping and needing a dozen planes and charging you $XXX.XX for shipping.

Svend > Dusty Ventures
06/27/2016 at 21:38

Well they need to get their finger out. I’ve another parcel going out this week an don’t want them eating everything.

E90M3 > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:41

Well, maybe the concord is in Paris

scoob > Svend
06/27/2016 at 21:42

You’re actually right, Dusty explained it here .

scoob > Dusty Ventures
06/27/2016 at 21:44

Ah, yeah that makes way more sense now. Thanks!

So I guess now I know which company you may or may not drive for? :P

Svend > scoob
06/27/2016 at 21:53

If Fed-Ex are doing that, I think I’ll stick with Royal Mail.