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[AugustWest]

I hate to be overly pedestrian, especially hereabouts, but I'm pretty sure I can explain this situation if anybody really wants to know.

[lprkn]

Do it! Be pedestrian.

Inquiring Minds

[wombat]

I hate to be overly pedestrian, especially hereabouts, but I'm pretty sure I can explain this situation if anybody really wants to know.

Will it tell me how to get between those two cities in forty minutes? Because that would really shorten the trip to NYC from here.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I hate to be overly pedestrian, especially hereabouts, but I'm pretty sure I can explain this situation if anybody really wants to know.

Well I did ask for an explanation so.... yeah.

[AugustWest]

Oct 7, 2008     
9:09 AM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ
Oct 6, 2008     
9:02 PM    Left FedEx origin facility   WEST CHESTER, PA     
8:23 PM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ     
6:00 AM    Picked up      WEST CHESTER, PA     
3:14 AM    Package data transmitted to FedEx   

OK, it was picked up in West Chester PA at 6:00 am.  Sometime during the day prior to 8 pm it left West Chester and went to Newark.  However, that data was not uploaded into Fedex's system on a timely basis.  In fact, I was say it was not uploaded until just after 9 pm.   At Newark it was mistakenly scanned as leaving Newark to go to Fedex's hub.  But it didn't actually leave Newark until 9am today.  It probably went through a daytime sort in Memphis today and might show more entries like "Arrived at WHATEVER A-CAP'S LOCATION IS"


Just a semi-informed theory.

[Doc]

Education

I love that this board can accommodate the sensible explanation and time traveling, hot potato playing fed ex drivers simultaneously.

[wombat]

Wow, I have a lot less faith in FedEx than I did before I read that post.

[littlefallsmets]

You... had faith in Fedex?

Oh man, when I was working in a production office and had to FedEx a lot of stuff all the time...

I quickly learned that those people are about as transparent as the DMV in Turkmenistan.

Though, for some reason, they also seem to employ a strangely high percentage of really hot ladies of African-American extraction, at least in L.A.

And, yeah, that makes up for it some.

[theinevitable]

we just got in a weird argument in my apartment where one guy was saying that 250,000$ a year is not "rich."
Also, am I the only person who finds it pretty damn easy to believe that most small businesses make less than that a year???

[CortJstr]

Our FedEx account rep buys us lunch once a quarter to make sure he uses up his entire schmoozing budget. That's good enough for me.

Also, "schmoozing" is in Firefox's spellchecker. Good for it.

[AugustWest]

we just got in a weird argument in my apartment where one guy was saying that 250,000$ a year is not "rich."
Also, am I the only person who finds it pretty damn easy to believe that most small businesses make less than that a year???

Depends on where you are, what your conception of "rich" is and how you spend money.

$250K/year goes a hell of a lot longer around here than it would on either coast.

$250K/year is chump change to really rich guys.  Ray Smuckles could wipe his ass with $250K/year.

If you spend $260K/year, $250K/year is not rich.

I wish I made $250K/year.

[Arachno-capitalist]

we just got in a weird argument in my apartment where one guy was saying that 250,000$ a year is not "rich."
Also, am I the only person who finds it pretty damn easy to believe that most small businesses make less than that a year???

Uh, 1.5% of the US population (households) pulls $250k+(US Census Bureau, 2005), so yeah, I'd call that rich. What do you mean "most small businesses make" ? Gross, Net? Residual profit to the owner? The number is skewed by micro-business (<10) being included in the small-business definition (<100).

[miles]

This site will tell you how rich you are in comparison to the rest of the world. Man, I don't feel rich.

[jaydub]

Man, I've got 22 million bodies to climb over before I reach number one.  Better get some golf spikes.

[Doc]

If you spend $260K/year, $250K/year is not rich.

That reminds me of a David Copperfield quote my dad loves to repeat that I will now google:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored.

It might be worth noting at this point that my dad worked for a bank for 30 years.