New Netflix Drop Location in San Bernardino?

Michael writes: "My shipping center has always been Santa Ana ( about 80 miles north) - so I make sure that I send them back there even when they came from an alternate center. I accomplish this by usually sending back movies 2 in one mailer envelope and saving the second envelope with my closest shipping center for shipping back movies from the alternate locations. Yesterday I got 3 or 4 (of 5) new disks from San Bernardino (101 miles north) rather than Santa Ana. I was surprised because almost always the movies have come from Santa Ana."

Michael also sent in an interesting list of places Netflix has sent movies from: Anchorage, AK, Bakersfield, CA, Coppell, TX, Dayton, OH, Duluth, GA, Flushing, NY, Gaithersburg, MD, Honolulu, HI, Lakeland, FL, Madison, WI, Oxnard, CA, Panama City, FL, Phoenix, AZ, Salem. OR, San Bernardino, CA, Tacoma, WA, and Santa Ana, CA.

Comments

[profpudwick]

Hey Michael,
Does it matter which envelope you send your dvds in? You might try sending one to a faraway location and the other to San Berdoo in the same mail, then check your e-mail the next morning. My guess is they will both be received at the same time, both at the nearest shipping center.

I sent "Tiger: Heavy Tank" back to Richmond, Virginia, from where it took 5 or 6 days to get to me. E-mail from Netflix next morning said it was received. So were a few others I mailed at the same time, in envelopes to Santa Ana, which is 18 miles from me.

I don't think USPS looks at what the mailers say on them-- they just toss all the Netflix-red envelopes in the same bin and it goes on the next truck to the closest Netflix center.

[gir]

I think it strongly depends on where you drop your mail.

If near a distribution center, the returns are probably expedited to that center.

If not, but at a postal office that does some sorting, the returns probably won't come out of their shipping bins and will bypass the nearest center on their way to the remote center.

If not, but at a postal office that sends all its mail in for central sorting, again it's probably expedited to the nearest center.

It all depends on if the first sorting happens at a postal location that holds NetFlix returns out.

[mike.]

Just noticed that the two envelopes that came today are addressed to a P.O. box in NY,NY, zip code 10116 (which is up in Harlem, apparently). To date the nearest drop to my house has been Flushing. Will this mean that I receive movies even faster? It would be nice, but I don't see how it would be possible - the videos I send back are usually received by netflix within 24 hours, and I usually receive movies the day after they have been sent out.

[hawk5391]

Finally! Something worthwhile in the Inland Empire....

[Kat]

I dont think there is one. I just called the san jose offices of Netflix to find out about jobs (I had sent in applications and got no response back, not even so much as a confirmation) in case there is a sorting plant in san berdoo which would be 30 miles from home. Sadly, no luck. Looks like santa anna is the nearest sorting plant. Not sure how they piggy back from that location to places like san berdoo, yucaipa, banning, etc...