Package Routing

[WARNING: A work-related post]

Last night before leaving, I burned a CD for a contractor and packaged it up for delivery today via FedEx. It's a fairly short trip from the Northern Virginia suburbs of D.C. to Warrenton, an exurb in Fauquier County, Virginia. According to MapQuest, it's a 41.81 mile drive door to door.

Here's the FedEx tracking report:

	Jan. 18, 2005
8:47 AM	On FedEx vehicle for delivery	Fredericksburg, VA
8:29 AM	At local FedEx facility	Fredericksburg, VA
7:08 AM	At dest sort facility	Richmond, VA
5:24 AM	Departed FedEx location	Indianapolis, IN
12:42 AM	Arrived at FedEx location	Indianapolis, IN
	Jan. 17, 2005
11:50 PM	At dest sort facility	Sandston, VA
8:42 PM	Left origin	West Springfield, VA
7:22 PM	Picked up	West Springfield, VA
3:58 PM	Package data transmitted to FedEX; package not in FedEx possession

This thing is getting more frequent flyer miles than I do. (According to Web|Flyer's MileMarker utility, the IAD-to-RIC-to-IND-to-RIC routing, which wouldn't include any of the driving distance, is worth 1,112 miles.) Actually, I shouldn't be surprised. There was a similar project last year where I sent a FedEx to Warrenton and it was routed through Memphis, Tennessee.

Updated table at 10:00 a.m. to reflect updated package status. Actually, this kind of reminds me of the MSN MapPoint directions for travel between Haugesund, Norway, and Trondheim, Norway, that's floating through the blogosphere at the moment.