Huawei reviewing FedEx relationship, says packages 'diverted'

Post by hueving » Mon, May 27, 2019, 10:28 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #52

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you mean Memphis? Atlanta would love to take some or all that traffic away from Memphis since the Atlanta airport is woefully under utilized after midnight.

Maybe? I just remember it was somewhere on the other side of the country where my package from SF to LA had no business being.

Post by hueving » Mon, May 27, 2019, 10:31 PM UTC

coliveira wrote: post #60

strooper wrote: post #43

Not related to this package delivery drama, but the way we are observing the live demolition of the world largest networking equipment maker and second largest smartphone maker (by number) in the name of trade war will never bring back the confidence in those who are flexing muscle. The illusion of the rule of law, free world, globalization and the reality of control is simply frightening, and worrisome.

What they're doing to Huawei will have nefarious consequences to the US. Who can ever trust a country that can use this kind of tactics to destroy a comercial competitor?

Post by seniorivn » Mon, May 27, 2019, 10:40 PM UTC

losteric wrote: post #61

viraptor wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Potential reason - they do not have a system that can split public/secret stops. They need tracking to be available for internal purposes (actual delivery) but never built the filtering features. (Or there is, but needs boxes to be checked explicitly and the box wasn't checked. Is there anyone from FedEx to throwaway comment? :-) )

We are talking about the federal government - do you think suits from the three-letter agencies will accept that reasoning? No. If they want quiet intercepts, that's what they get... even if it means "slow down conveyor belts and post agents to manually read every incoming package label before it hits the scanner". This was either unrelated or an intentionally loud message.

Post by viraptor » Mon, May 27, 2019, 10:41 PM UTC

losteric wrote: post #61

viraptor wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Potential reason - they do not have a system that can split public/secret stops. They need tracking to be available for internal purposes (actual delivery) but never built the filtering features. (Or there is, but needs boxes to be checked explicitly and the box wasn't checked. Is there anyone from FedEx to throwaway comment? :-) )

We are talking about the federal government - do you think suits from the three-letter agencies will accept that reasoning? No. If they want quiet intercepts, that's what they get... even if it means "slow down conveyor belts and post agents to manually read every incoming package label before it hits the scanner". This was either unrelated or an intentionally loud message.

Post by ACow_Adonis » Mon, May 27, 2019, 10:48 PM UTC

SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #22

Hanlon's razor applies here. If there was truly something nefarious going on, why would FedEx update the tracking status to say that the packages were re-routed? Why not just say they were held up in the sending or receiving country?