{"id":3425,"date":"2004-08-03T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:24:16","slug":"news-from-fedex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/08\/03\/news-from-fedex\/","title":{"rendered":"News from FedEx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    We’re all still ravenously following the progress of our G5s, over at the Mac Rumors thread<\/a>. The thread has surpassed forty pages and a thousand posts. Evidently the first batch of five hundred G5s was shipped over the weekend from Shenzhen, China. A poster named Nachodog<\/b> provides the following informatio:

I just talked to a friend who is a pilot for Fed-Ex and here is what he found-out after logging in to Fed-Ex from home.

There is one flight from SHENZHEN CN a day.
It is approximately an 8 hr flight to US
SHENZHEN CN. is 13 hrs ahead of central US time.
Today at 1:00 PM Central US time, Aug. 3 \/ it is 2:00AM Aug. 4 in SHENZHEN
The Fed-Ex flight left China at 8:23 PM Aug 3 SHENZHEN time.
as I type this (1:00 pm Central) the plane has been in-flight 5.5 hrs.
The plain is scheduled to land in Memphis about 4:00 PM today.

Here is some other info from his experience.
-Daily international routes are more frequently changed and canceled if the plane is not full enough.
-Packages are generally scanned as they are unloaded, but pallets of packages from the same shipper my be scanned when separated.
-The accuracy of there real time tracking info is considered the best.
-There are some daytime flights, but the vast majority are at night, the main package sort is afternoon for that nights flights.<\/tt><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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