Example of Fedex Intl shipping

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_qwest.net>
Date: Sat Jul 28 00:15:34 2001

And they get the economy of scale... EVERY package from SJ goes to
the same place, and EVERY package to DEN goes the same way. They
don't worry about a single package that needs to go from SJ to DEN...

Clint

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:

> At 02:04 PM 7/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Why did it go from Alaska to Tennesse to California?
>
> Because FedEx sends everything "in" to Memphis and "out" to its
> destination. This was the basis for their entire concept. If you read the
> story of how they got started the guy who started them realized the post
> office (and most shippers) spent way too much time trying to optimally
> route packages that could just as easily be routed by setting up one
> routing system from a central point. Thus the routes were all fixed (i.e.
> to go to San Jose from Memphis goes blip, blip and blip. etc.) and there
> was no "loss" due to trying to compute n x m ideal routes.
>
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 00:15:34 BST