Q Talk

[gizmogal]

I advance ordered the Northern Nights down blanket TSV of Sept. 20.  It just got shipped and I am tracking it through UPS until it is handed off to USPS for local delivery to my door. Look at this tracking info:

Shipment Progress

LOCATION DATE LOCAL TIME ACTIVITY
March Air Reserve Base, CA, United States 09/08/2017 1:38 A.M. Departure Scan
March Air Reserve Base, CA, United States 09/07/2017 4:27 P.M. Origin Scan
United States 09/07/2017 1:21 P.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS

Kind of weird seeing it left "March Air Reserve Base" in California? I researched and it really is a military facility.  No connection with UPS distribution, unless it's just a place where UPS parks their planes or rents sorting space?? No particular difference to me whether the package  is handled by a guy in brown, or someone in Air Force blue, but I'd love to know how my new blanket got started to me on a military runway, seemingly unaffiliated with QVC or UPS.

The EDD is several days away, so until there's another tracking entry, it's up in the air, so to speak.

[Snowpuppy]

Google it.

Business news has UPS leasing wharehouse space as well as space for their planes.

In this era of base closings, it's nice to see the gov't making a business decision that benefits all. 

[Kachina624]

Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque shares space and runways with the municipal airport.  They may have a similar arrangement.  My down blanket shipped but took a different route.