Where is my FWW magazine?

[Groggy]

I'm a little curious as to this also, as I have had several US publications delivered via Austria. I'm wondering if there is a scanning device that reads the first few letters and concludes "Aust" must be Austria?

Shippers pay for priority but also have standard space paid for. If they can get the item closer via a circuitous route utilising space already paid for they will. It may be due to backloading to clear the load from a high traffic area to better use under utilised routes with space available (load sharing).

There is some very fancy new routing software under development that will move items around the globe in very strange, but fast, ways. eg if an item can go from Atlanta USA to Melbourne via 6 points in 8 days, this software will investigate all other routes and may utilise 10 points to deliver in 3 days. It will also review its options at each via node. The maths and computational power involved is very scary.

[soundman]

There is some very fancy new routing software under development that will move items around the globe in very strange, but fast, ways. eg if an item can go from Atlanta USA to Melbourne via 6 points in 8 days, this software will investigate all other routes and may utilise 10 points to deliver in 3 days. It will also review its options at each via node. The maths and computational power involved is very scary.

The possibility of something getting lost or stolen is also mathamaticaly scary. we are talking freight handlers here.
All it take is for one step to fail & your freight is heading direct to Outerwhykickamoocow, via upapole.

yeh very clever..... not.

[ian]

I know the american postal system is a little strange but how can it be more effective to ship something to Germany then back to Australia.

I can think of three possibilities

1) Australia and Austria are just different ways of spelling the name of that country south of Germany and east of Switzerland — aren't they?

2) Apart from Canada, almost all International FWW subscriptions are in Europe. Air shipping to Germany is dirt cheap 'cause you can buy the spare cargo space on the regular US military flights to Weisbarden (near Frankfurt), so all O/S orders are shipped to Europe for posting

3) Taunton's contractor uses a service like Surface Air Lifted mail (flown across oceans and driven across land). Again fly all international orders to Germany, truck the Aussie ones to Singapore and then fly them to Oz.

What I want to know is if Canadian subscribers get their mags posted in Germany


ian

[Driver]

....fly all international orders to Germany, truck the Aussie ones to Singapore and then fly them to Oz.

Just purely for fun, you understand, sketch out for us the overland route from Germany to Singapore. :confused:

[Groggy]

The possibility of something getting lost or stolen is also mathamaticaly scary. we are talking freight handlers here.
All it take is for one step to fail & your freight is heading direct to Outerwhykickamoocow, via upapole.

yeh very clever..... not.

I dunno, a few million items move around the globe now and a few thousand get lost. With increasing use of RFID you can track the item and tell when it goes astray. The new software will simply choose the fastest route, even detecting when airports are closed due to weather and re-route around them. If it goes astray, the s/w can route it back via the fastest route.

[ian]

Just purely for fun, you understand, sketch out for us the overland route from Germany to Singapore. :confused:

pick a route


ian

[scooter]

... I'm wondering if there is a scanning device that reads the first few letters and concludes "Aust" must be Austria?

Yeah, it's a blonde with long fingernails called Darlene ...

[lesmeyer]

Issue 187 arrived today at my house in Perth (and we are isolated). Still have not yet received issue 186 after it was posted on 12 Sep.
Les

[Driver]

pick a route


ian

OK. How's this:

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria, Turkey (no drama so far, right?)

Iraq (whoops!) back up.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan (whoops!) back up.

Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore.

I'm genuinely curious. Is that a realistic road freight option? Seems to me there are one or two places along that route where you might encounter a delay or two. Does anyone actually ship international freight overland through Iran et al? If so, how long does it take?

[Wongo]

Driver you so funny.

[silentC]

If you buy stuff from Amazon, it often goes via Frankfurt because they use Deutsche Post for international orders. Could be the same for FWW. Or maybe they have recently discovered that Australia is not in Europe, so they are no longer using Deutsche Post and are now using another carrier, which has resulted in the current stuff up.

Still don't have 185 or 186. Looking forward to not having 187 either because I don't have time to read it anyway. Maybe I could pay someone to read them for me?

[Wongo]

Or maybe FWW is actually printed in PRC. All the missing FWW magazine were sent to Austria by accident. To be fair sometimes it is a bit hard to tell the difference between Austria and Australia.

Hang one which one are we?

[Auld Bassoon]

Well,

I today received my FWW #186 in the mail

I wonder if I should do the right thing and let Taunton know as I've already accepted their offer to extend my subscription by an issue on the basis that I'd buy #186 locally (which I haven't, as I couldn't find a copy).

# 187 should be hot on #186's heels.

[Driver]

Haven't had mine yet. Maybe it was sent overland from Germany and it's been held up at the Kazakhstan border - or maybe stolen by one of Borat's rellies!

[Groggy]

Haven't had mine yet. Maybe it was sent overland from Germany and it's been held up at the Kazakhstan border - or maybe stolen by one of Borat's rellies!

Mine must be in the same bundle