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Originally Posted by john70t

I once posted a pic of how a package in central LA (traveling north a few miles of downtown) gets onto two airlines, before another sort hub puts it into a package car for local delivery.

I think we actually have several warehouses in the area that items ship from (rather than 1 huge warehouse).

I am fairly certain that they have sophisticated algorithms that are designed to make moving stuff around as cheaply, efficiently, and quickly as possible (with the balance of cheaply and quickly being adjustable based on how much you pay). And I'm sure it makes a huge difference most of the time, but there are times that it doesn't appear to make sense to us. But then can you imagine if they had a car and driver for over package moving within an area. The amount of vehicles and traffic would be boggling, especially in a sprawling metropolis like LA.