Is It Me...

[Lie-in King]

...or could Amazon have made this journey easier/shorter/more efficient?

I live in Lewes.

Schkeuditz
Derby
Castle Donington
St Helens (arr 4:08am, dep 11:34 pm)
Littlehampton
Lewes

Even with my appalling knowledge of geography, surely it didn't need to be *that* convoluted a route? Could they not be saving a bit of fuel somewhere? It just struck me as a tad odd - by the way, I've no complaint, it arrived earlier than originally quoted anyway.

[Bazile]

Perhaps they have other deliveries ,on the way to you

[Lie-in King]

Baz - well yes, I know that, it's the roundabout route oop North that puzzled me.

"Initiated customs clearance process" in Derby - could Amazon Logistics (or whatever they're called) not sort deliveries to the southern half of the country by starting down here?

[TheChair]

^ You mean they don't have a personal delivery truck for every single customer? Wow! lie-in-King will be surprised.

[Lie-in King]

Sigh, that's not what I meant at all, though I'm sure you knew that.

[sunny-dave]

I buy most of my Amazonian goods from their amazon.de store - my stuff seems to have a gentle wander around at least three sites in Germany, France and occasionally Luxembourg before arriving into Dublin or Shannon.

It then potters around various bits of Ireland (occasionally yo-yoing back to Shannon for a rest) before arriving - usually on time.

[Lie-in King]

On-time or early, all good - the getting there just feels a smidge inefficient.

[mushroom25]

each step to step journey is probably on a truck that regularly travels between those two points.
in the 1980s on British Rail, Willesden and Rugby are less than 80 miles apart, but to get a wagon between the 2 involved a journey from Willesden to Acton, Acton to Ilkeston, Ilkeston to Walsall, Walsall to Northampton, and Northampton to Rugby. because that's where the regular wagon trains went.

[ToraToraTora]

Guess what? you were not the only delivery! They optimise the route to the nth degree, believe me if they could save fuel they would.

[davebro]

no worries - soon be arriving by your own personal drone!

[Hopkirk]

Castle Donington is by East Midlands airport and a rail freight terminal. That will be why it "arrives" in the UK there. It probably went to St Helen's in a huge truck for sorting and redistribution. Amazon won't be wasting money, believe me.

[Lie-in King]

Its first stop in the UK was Derby.

"Guess what? you were not the only delivery!..." - again, yes, I know that.

[Hopkirk]

A quick Google tells me that the Amazon Derby warehouse is at East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington.