Shipping, and Confusion

[TecnicalNoob]

So last week on Friday I ordered a GPU and it was shipped out of Baldwin Park California on late Friday. Yet today that I checked, the package is in Des Moines, Iowa. It is bound to arrive tomorrow but I live in South East Nebraska, the package completely passed my state?!?!

This is my first time I order from Newegg So I don't know if this is normal or something. It is being delivered by UPS. I checked the address and everything is correct so what the heck?

 

[USAFRet]

The routing path of any specific package is known only to the Newegg software.

Going to Des Moines first may well have been easier.
As long as it gets there by the appointed date, how it gets there is of no matter.

 

[NBSN]

More than likely it is about the shipping hubs being used for a particular region.

Several states packages for that carrier may go to that location and then out again to various other locations. I know it sounds stupid, but it is what it is.

 

[Jon-Doe]

I live in Oklahoma and when I lived in the panhandle our mail had to go to Kansas and then back down to Oklahoma.

This is common.

SIDE NOTE- Noob is by far my favorite. Love it

 

[boosted1g]

This is called Hub-and-spoke infrastructure.
This was actually first deployed by FedEx decades ago.
You designate a select number of primary hubs and you ship from primary hub to primary hub, and then let it filter back down to secondary hub and finally the destination. When you look at millions of packages this method is substantially cheaper and requires much less resources vs doing direct shimpents from point A to B.