Amazon has a time machine…
Last time I posted in this thread was end of June. Fba wanted me to send to teb9, sent in two boxes one was fine the other is just….in limbo? It’s still in process of being checked in a month later 
So I needed to ship another fba order in and again they wanted it to go teb9 and would give me some sort of fullfillment rate rebate but never did figure out where the rebates I supposedly earned went the last time. So I took my chances with this order and shipped it to the phoenix warehouse that has “long wait times”. Will try to remember to report back how long a long wait time warehouse takes…
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Please do that.
I’d also be interested to know if anybody has sent shipment (SPD) to SMF3 (Stockton, CA) recently. If so, how long did it take between Delivered and Receiving.
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It appears to vary.
This one took over a week.
This one was received hours after arrival.
It also is not the receive times that kill you, its the transfer out times. We had a pallet in ONT8 that was 100% transfer and it was unavailable for another week after receiving. An Amazon employee/neighbor told me the west coast receive centers are just slammed with containers/trailers and backlogs of inventory going east.
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So it’s really about the same as before Amazon started “Suggested” I should ship to CLT2 (Charlotte, NC)
Thanks for that info. Are your shipments Small Parcel Delivery by UPS?
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Yes, the last one was just an example of post receiving transfers that happened to be an LTL shipment. The others are SPD.
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For our products they want us to SPD to MDW (Joliet IL) for double the SPD cost. We just bump up inventory and then wait out the extra receiving time.
So last month’s shipment to TEB9 Shipped Wed June 21 and received Tue June 27 - So 6 days of transit time from SoCal to New Jersey. It was checked in on July 1st…so a total of 10 days.
The recent shipment I picked to go to Phoenix which was “Long Wait”. Was shipped Monday July 31st, received Thursday August 3rd, and checked into day Sunday August 6th for a total of 7 days.
I also am trying to open an investigation into my TEB9 shipment as they say I sent some extra items and some items are missing, but I can’t open an investigation because it gives me an error saying to select the listings and there is no way to select any listings, so now I have a case open. 
The kicker is if the inventory is out of “inventory transfer” yet? We had a shipment go to ONT8 and get received in a few days, only for the transfer of all of the units out being 15 days. The other pallet went to MDW or MEM and was available if not immediately, within 24 hours of receipt with fewer units transferred even though it took 4 more days to get there.
YMMV.
I believe though inventory is sellable while it’s transferring right? I could be wrong. I don’t do much fba shipments but when I do see them checked in it looks like it’s sellable (usually with a long wait though, it will say in stock soon, but still orderable).
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Sellable perhaps, but not shippable meaning you end up with this…
With the head start program your stuff is sellable while in transit to the receive center just committed to the year 2037.
So here is one sick joke that I am dealing with.
On July 24, late in the day, I had a shipment ready to go. Amazon picked CLT2. I am in Los Angeles, and that would land the shipment there on the 31st.
BUT the UPS strike was pending, and I did not want to take a chance, so I decided to hold the shipment and use Fedex the next day. Whoa, the next day, UPS settled, and had my guys use UPS.
And the gods were ( I thought) on my side, as we were directed to ship to VGT2 (Vegas). Not only 1/2 the price, but a 1 day ship.
Next day, I notice it was delivered to RIVERSIDE, CA which is a 40 min freeway drive (no traffic - lol).
What? Riverside?
Well as of today Aug 7, - 15 days later, it sits in Riverside.
I have been screwed- not a thing I can do.
This is the message we get for all shipments to the West Coast receive centers. SMF, SCK, LAS, LAX, SBD, LGB, and now even PHX and GYR today.
That’s crazy. I’m in Riverside but had no idea we had a fba receiving warehouse here. Once I actually was able to ship to Moreno Valley (The next town over for non locals) and they had it received and checked in the very next day 
I almost always get CLT2. But this week it had me pick MEM1. Of some note, my delivery from last Wed is still awaiting check in at CLT2, now day 6, which is unusual for them. 80% get received within 24 hours, one in 20 shipments takes longer than 5 days.
Perhaps CLT has something slowing them down and redirecting for a short time?
Not all receive centers accept the same goods. We have one near our warehouse in Georgia, but it only accepts books and DVD’s/media. We only got it once for a new item, and never again.
The bots must have made a boo boo or something.
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I had a lot of shipments go to Moreno Valley, and they were always really good.
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My shipment was just delivered in Vegas, and oddly the tracking info terminology changed, so I pulled up the actual label, and understand the story now.
The Riverside address, is not a FC or even a DC, but (I guess) just an overflow site to store UPS shipments. The exact address on the label
VGT2 via UPS Riverside
March Air Reserve Base
20701 Krameria Avenue
Riverside, CA 92518
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It’s part of the post-B.R.A.C.* implementation of utilizing the attractiveness of well-appointed & easily accessible former military installations like March AFB, to commercial entities which are enamoured of the advantages of relatively well-constructed storage/office/shop/shipping & handling space, and towards this or that such a site’s civil engineering infrastructure has to offer, to businesses that are willing to pay for utilizing them.
Having toured many a B.R.A.C.-impacted facility over the years, I am constrained to suspect that most of us might well be amazed to see what they’re cramming into those spaces nowadaze…
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“Base Realignment and Closure,” as defined in the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990, its later-sanctioned Congressional & Administrative State codicils, amendments, and emoluments, and in the readily-discernible intent in the historical record of the minutes for the original Congressional Committee, chaired in 1988 to investigate avenues of divestiture for sprawling and tiny military installations alike
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It’s all new construction over where the old base housing and lodging used to be from its heyday where the size of the installation was sprawling. The old stuff was razed a long time ago and the newer ish stuff has been bought and converted into an assisted living center.
Kind of cool how they kept the names. Not too many civilian communities with LeMay, McConnell, Spaatz and Vandenberg streets. LOL Great use of former billeting though.
Also great use for the National Cemetery.
I enjoyed the spanish deco they used down there with the stucco and red tile roofs. It is the former home of the glorious and soon to be retired KC-10A Extender.
Fun place to go TDY, but the heat makes it not fun in the summer like MacDill.
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