Lol.. Fedex came to my block 3 times today

[JEDI]

in a span of 4 hrs, fedex came to my block 3 times.

one to deliver something to my neighbor. once to deliver a package to me. and 5 min ago, to deliver a packege to my neighbor across the street.

so this is what happens when they team up with USPS!

Edit:
no idea if it was the same guy/truck. they all look alike. 🙂

 

[FoBoT]

it makes you wonder how they figure all that out

maybe they need some good mapping software or something

 

[deejayshakur]

i ordered 2 ms natural 4000 keyboard combos from zzf that are supposed to be delivered today.

still waiting to see if they will drop them off separately.

still, fedex has been rock solid for me.

 

[oboeguy]

More than likely they use integer programming to solve massive scheduling problems. It is possible that they don't solve them exactly (IP is NP-hard).

 

[acemcmac]

fedex green and red use different trucks

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: oboeguy
More than likely they use integer programming to solve massive scheduling problems. It is possible that they don't solve them exactly (IP is NP-hard).

what does that mean in layman's terms? that they might have done it for other reasons or that it is just really hard to figure out a schedule that doesn't overlap/repeat ?

 

[speg]

Originally posted by: deejayshakur
i ordered 2 ms natural 4000 keyboard combos from zzf that are supposed to be delivered today.

still waiting to see if they will drop them off separately.

still, fedex has been rock solid for me.

Mmm... those keyboards look sweet. I'm a big fan of the natural keyboards (currently on my third one) might have to upgrade now though! 🙂

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

They've got packages that must be delivered by a certain time of day, right? Maybe stopping at your house as they pass by the first few times can't be done if they're to deliver the more expensive packages on time. I dunno. That would make sense if they ignored your stop the first time and came around to your place the second, but passing by your place three freakin times? 😕

 

[iamwiz82]

What's worse, Fedex coming around three times or noticing that Fedex came around 3 times? 😉

 

[slpaulson]

I'd bet they were different trucks... I see more than one out all the time around campus.

 

[Vonkhan]

u're stalking FedEx ... ?

 

[Mrvile]

lol...if it were the same guy I wonder what he was thinking...

"wtf..."

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
What's worse, Fedex coming around three times or noticing that Fedex came around 3 times? 😉

I'd say reading a thread about how FedEx came around three times would take the cake! 😉

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
fedex green and red use different trucks

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
What's worse, Fedex coming around three times or noticing that Fedex came around 3 times? 😉

well, i was waiting for my package. when i first heard the truck sounds and saw fedex, i thought it was for me. when he went to drop off the package for my neighbor, i went to online tracking since my package was scheduled to be delievered today. it said my package was on the truck to be delievered.

so the 2nd time i heard a truck on my street, my door bell rang.

since the truck noise was now fresh in my mind, i went to the window when i heard it the 3rd time.

 

[JDrake]

noobs 😀

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: acemcmac
fedex green and red use different trucks

whats the diff?

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: acemcmac
fedex green and red use different trucks

whats the diff?

Fedex express and fedex ground.

Originally posted by: deejayshakur
i ordered 2 ms natural 4000 keyboard combos from zzf that are supposed to be delivered today.

still waiting to see if they will drop them off separately.

still, fedex has been rock solid for me.

Those keyboards are 30 after rebate from Cusa this week. Might wanna refuse delivery.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: oboeguy
More than likely they use integer programming to solve massive scheduling problems. It is possible that they don't solve them exactly (IP is NP-hard).

what does that mean in layman's terms? that they might have done it for other reasons or that it is just really hard to figure out a schedule that doesn't overlap/repeat ?

In layman's terms it means that getting an optimal schedule is a hard enough problem that for a big enough delivery network (and by "big enough" I mean "most anything practically useful") we have little hope of ever being able to find the optimal routing, regardless of how fast computers get. See the movie "Sneakers" for what happens if someone figures out how to solve NP-Hard problems fast. 😀

So what people do to solve a lot of these problems is use fairly detail-agnostic techniques to solve for "pretty good" solutions. That is to say, some of the same techniques for airline staffing and scheduling are used for FedEx routing or scheduling the NFL or running a factory, etc. Some of the "keywords" you may have heard before associated with this stuff are optimization, mathematical programming, operations researchk industrial engineering, etc.

(yes, it's my field)