Inside the Boise Netflix Shipping Hub
The Idaho Statesman takes a look at the Boise Idaho hub, one of the smaller Netflix shipping centers:
The center employs a dozen people who spend each day unpacking returned DVDs and repacking them for delivery to the next customer. An average of 8,000 to 9,000 DVDs leave the center each day. Tuesday is the center's busiest day and the number of DVDs typically tops 13,000. Swasey said.The company has developed a highly-guarded process that uses bar codes and high tech sorting equipment to make sure the DVDs leave the distribution centers quickly.
"Swasey visited Boise recently and offered a tour of the company's distribution facility with the agreement that it's exact location couldn't be disclosed other than saying its located somewhere off South Cole Road."
However, if you really want to find the distribution center, all you have to do is cruise up and down South Cole Road at around 9am or 5pm and look for the people with red shirts entering/exiting Netflix's distribution center.
Posted by:leonardodicrapio | March 28, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I've received about 4 titles from Boise since they opened the DC. Nice to know that they let the employees wear work t-shirts.
Posted by:corey3rd | March 28, 2007 at 01:24 PM
I didn't know Boise had more then 10 people. Maybe they can somehow breed and make more!
Posted by:McDahling | March 28, 2007 at 04:09 PM
i looked it up on wikipedia earlier today. it has a population of 200k and a metro population of 600k. so it is not too small, being the capital of idaho. i believe boise is about 5 times bigger than montpelier, vermont (which is the smallest state capital in terms of population).
Posted by:leonardodicrapio | March 28, 2007 at 04:15 PM