April 09, 2013
Ever hear of OnTrac?
Newegg is using them to deliver my most recent order. I have no idea who they are, or what they do, but they seem to be trying to set themselves up as an alternative to UPS and Fedex, and good luck to them. It ain't gonna be easy to compete in that market.
They have the same kind of online order tracking as the other two, which isn't cheap, but is appreciated. As they often do, Newegg split my order into three parts and shipped them from three different facilities. Two are coming up from California, via OnTrac, supposedly to deliver tomorrow some time.
The other one is coming from Louisville, via UPS, also delivering tomorrow. I wonder who will show up first? (That suggests to me that OnTrac doesn't have full national coverage yet.)
UPDATE:
OnTrac is the leader in regional overnight package delivery service within California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
No mention of Kentucky there, which explains UPS doing the third one.
UPDATE: I tell you; it's gonna be hard for me to come up with stuff to blog about this season. Nothing fresh about anime until the first episode of Railgun shows up this weekend.
I suppose I could do another Fairy Tail cheesecake post.
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Posted by: ubu at April 09, 2013 02:03 PM (SlLGE)
Posted by: David at April 09, 2013 02:31 PM (qw+UI)
I bet initially they were California-only, and have been expanding slowly North and East.
Seems like a very rational business plan, except that doing it in the middle of the Great Recession wasn't the best timing.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 09, 2013 03:04 PM (+rSRq)
If they're doing it DESPITE the Great Recession, that's pretty darn impressive.
I work with a number of shippers at the Duck U Bookstore: UPS, FedEx, DHL, YellowFreight, UPS Freight, USPS, on and on... and I've never once heard of OnTrac.
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 09, 2013 03:18 PM (9jITs)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 09, 2013 03:35 PM (+rSRq)
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Posted by: J Greely at April 09, 2013 04:11 PM (fpXGN)
Expanding north to Oregon and Washington was certainly a smart thing, because it opens up Amazon as a potential customer.
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