May 31, 2013

UPS: Super-truck

Do they put afterburners on UPS trucks these days?

I ordered a new sound module from NewEgg and it's supposed to be delivered today. It was 3-day UPS delivery and I've been watching the UPS track for the package. Yesterday at 3PM it was in Des Moines, and at 6PM it was in Spokane. Now there are some time zones involved. Des Moines is Central Time and Spokane is Pacific, so it was actually 5 hours.

I don't believe it. No way that could be driven that fast. And I don't believe that they used a jet. (UPS uses a hub-and-spoke system for their jets, and neither Des Moines nor Spokane are hubs.)

I think Des Moines was late getting their reading in. The track shows my package in Louisville on Wednesday afternoon at 2 PM. So it took a full day from Louisville to Des Moines but only 5 hours to Spokane? Not likely.

Anyway, I get my new toy today. (It shows "Out for delivery".) Yay!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 07:34 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Des Moines to Spokane is a 22 hour drive.  But my understanding is that the readings are time stamped by the hand held device, and it doesn't matter how long it is before they get around to uploading data from the reader, it will still have that original timestamp when the tracking data finally updates.  More likely is that there are occasional exceptions to the hub-and-spoke flight paths.

Posted by: David at May 31, 2013 08:41 AM (vyRm+)

2 There were also a ton of delays in Louisville, Memphis, etc yesterday and the day before due to storms.  That may have had something to do with the data time.

I once had something delivered from Amazon via FedEx, and I had finished reading it before it was confirmed as delivered... and it wasn't a small book, either.

Posted by: Wonderduck at May 31, 2013 02:15 PM (lpH3d)

3

Well, my SteelSeries Siberia sound module got delivered about noon, and it works great.

For years, I used an external ASUS sound module, but the main rotary switch on that broke last year. And they no longer make it, so I couldn't buy a replacement. So I bought a Turtle Beach sound module, and once I got it I discovered that it was a minimal unit. The ASUS unit had a 10-band equalizer, the Turtle Beach didn't.

The SteelSeries does, and I need that for my headphones to make them sound right. And now the headphones sound great again.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at May 31, 2013 02:32 PM (+rSRq)

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