New Netflix Shipping Centers
A Netflix spokesperson has confirmed that two new Netflix shipping centers have opened recently. The first, in Oklahoma City, opened 3 weeks ago, and the second in Columbus, Ohio, opened last week. This brings the total number of shipping centers to 44.
Netflix is expected to have a total of 50 shipping centers by the end of the year, and 50 truck routes. The shuttle trucks pick up the Netflix envelopes at distant post offices around 2am, and deliver them to a shipping center for the 3-4am shifts.
The funny thing about Oklahoma City is that I was actually getting movies shipped from OKC to me for several months last year, and since I live in central Oklahoma that was great. However, more recently I was recieving my DVD's from Coppell, Texas - this was the most recent center for many years if you lived in Oklahoma. It did suck to have to "downgrade" to that furthest location, and although to be fair I would sometimes get my movies from Coppell the next day, there was an overall difference in deliveries.
The good thing is that now I seem to be getting more movies from Oklahoma City, which is very nice! Speaking of Ohio, however: I had a DVD sent to me from Cleveland last week. Can you believe that crap? It took at least 4 days to get here. Good thing you can put two discs in one envelope....
/end pointless talking
Posted by:Brandon S. | March 29, 2007 at 05:26 PM
I'm in the NYC area and I received a DVD from Maspeth, NY about two weeks ago. It's quite near the Flushing DC. I don't know how new the Maspeth DC is, but after being a Netflix member for almost a year, it was the first time I got one from there.
Posted by:mzzm77 | March 29, 2007 at 06:01 PM
I am in Tulsa, OK, and have been getting NF movies sent from FL, CA and other states over the past couple of weeks or so. I assumed it was because I was getting a lot of pretty obscure films lately (which might be a factor too).
Now that I've seen Brandon's comment I wonder if they were 'offloading' some of their shipping to other centers while they take care of whatever last-minute details come up just before going fully operational?
Posted by:dirjy | March 29, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Only Ohio? I'm waiting for a title that's being shipped from Alaska to North Carolina.
Posted by:corey3rd | March 30, 2007 at 10:19 AM
A long time ago I had a link to a crude map of NetFlix shipping centers, and even if I could find it now it would be long out of date. Given all the changes still underway with this, I thought it would be a good thing to have a static link to a current
map of these shipping centers.
We could periodically update the map, but the URL would never change, and so the bookmark would never go bad.
Anybody compiled a map like this lately?
Similar trivia: Don Wiss from the rec.photo.digital USENET group has a project of photographing all the digital camera seller storefronts in Brooklyn (and now elsewhere) and then posting them. It's obvious from just looking at some of the pictures which of these internet sellers are up to no good.
http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/
I thought it might be a fun group project to take pictures of the actual Netflix shipping centers and post them. Combined with the physical addresses, we could even provide directions for driving tours ...
Posted by:lasitter | March 30, 2007 at 05:53 PM
RE: the "offloading" suggestion, I think that might be pretty accurate. I'm not familiar enough with the company's business practices to say for sure, though.
It does sound strange that a few of you have commented about getting your movies from such long distances. I believe that, in my nearly 5 years of on-and-off membership with Netfilx, the Ohio shipment was the longest distance. I've had one sent from Chicago, and another from Houston, Texas but those were one-time things, and as I recall were mostly either semi-osbcure concert DVD's or foreign films.
If you are getting movies sent to you regularly from extreme distances, I would say something to the company. There are so many millions of people using this service that I can easily imagine one or more people in my area renting the same type of movies as myself. I'm certainly not seeing as many "long wait" discs in my queue as I was in 2002.
Posted by:Brandon S. | March 30, 2007 at 07:08 PM
Amazing, but the DVD from Alaska showed up in three days. Yet it seems to take a week for a title from Florida to make it up to NC.
Posted by:corey3rd | March 31, 2007 at 05:02 PM
"Amazing, but the DVD from Alaska showed up in three days. Yet it seems to take a week for a title from Florida to make it up to NC."
It must have caught a Delta flight from Anchorage to Atlanta.
Posted by:leonardodicrapio | March 31, 2007 at 05:14 PM
"A long time ago I had a link to a crude map of NetFlix shipping centers, and even if I could find it now it would be long out of date."
This was the story posted here:
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2006/11/google_maps_sho.html
That linked to here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=netflix&ie=UTF8&z=3&om=1
Posted by:BoB | April 01, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Using this list: http://netflixfan.blogspot.com/2004/01/known-netflix-distribution-centers.html
which seems current, despite the 2004 date.
I created this map:
http://www.aardvarkmap.net/mape/L9HY5HD8
which is far from perfect, since I already noticed that I left out Houston.
Anyway, poke around with it and let me know if you think that taking the time to clean it up would be worth the effort and I will.
Posted by:machinegunn | April 02, 2007 at 02:03 PM