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Originally Posted by Manabi;3401941
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I know you were joking there, but the [i
reality[/i] is that 44% of the US population lives within twenty miles of an Amazon facility. There's five in Tennessee alone. 
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Interesting factoid.
That certainly helps them get packages to a lot of places within 2 days, without much difficulty or without much cost to them (UPS, FedEx, and others are not like USPS. USPS does a lot of anywhere-for-one-price shipping (Parcel Post is a notable exception). With UPS, FedEx, and others, their rates are entirely or almost entirely based upon distance (what zone a destination is in, not the actual mileage))
unless that has changed since I closed my Internet businesses 6 or 7 years ago.
I know that Amazon's distribution centers in Texas must all be larger than anywhere else. The saying is that everything is larger in Texas. ha
Another interesting factoid: anywhere that you are in Great Britain, you are within 74.5 miles of the ocean. That has nothing to do with your post, I just thought that I would share that.
