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Phil Kane wrote:

UPS sends all parcels to Louisville KY, to a place they called HUB 2K...

ALL of its parcels? The last five shipments that I have received
and/or sent have never been east of the Mississippi River, and
even those from "the East" never got anywhere near Louisville.

Or is the tracking record lying to me?

Nah, it's not lying as far as I can tell. Ground shipments seem to go
direct, pretty much... they arrive too fast to have been shipped to
Louisville unless they were sending 'em by air rather than by truck.

Now, it's quite possible that packages which are sent next-day-air are
shipped to one or more large dispatch hubs, and then shipped out again
from there. I recall hearing that Federal Express used this approach
with its overnight-delivery service... they'd fly everything back to
one big hub (arriving by late evening), sort it, and fly it out again
to the destination city in the wee hours. This approach probably
required a lot less individual airplane routes than would be required
to allow for direct city-to-city shipment.

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UPS does operate their largest National Hub in KY, but "everything" does not
go there. A shipment from say, Boston to Ohio, Fla, or NY will never see KY.
There are many smaller hubs that handle this.

UPS does operate their largest National Hub in KY, but "everything" does not
go there. A shipment from say, Boston to Ohio, Fla, or NY will never see KY.
There are many smaller hubs that handle this.