Anyone who actually looks at the addresses will notice that about 90% of the time, your disks have come from (and therefore will be shipped back to) your local distribution center, which usually involves a one day turnaround time. The other 10%, due perhaps to a local surge in demand for that disc, or some other shipping logistics, you’ll get one sent from some other area of the country. It happens. Sometimes that adds on a day or two to the turnaround, sometimes, in my experience, it doesn’t. That, as they say, is life.
Wait, so you mean I can make money stuffing envelopes in my spare time?
Man, do you just sit around all day and wait for things to happen so you can make Pit posts?
Do this. The idea above has been around for ages - you are not the first person that this has happened to and everyone else has figured it out and gone on with their lives.
I’ve had them since 2005 and the system is working well for me. We send the movies off on a Monday and by Thursday or so we have received three movies. We watch them over a weekend and then repeat. I usually check to make sure that the envelope is going to the closest return facility.
I was spending so much at Blockbuster waiting for my Netflix to arrive, that I finally just went full blockbuster. I really like that I can return a movie to the store and it’s marked as returned immediately, then they ship it.
You’re probably not fast enough. I’ve seen interviews with Reed Hastings (founder and CEO of Netflix), who admitted that he is not nearly fast enough for that job.
Yes, they would. There are eight ways to insert the disc in the outer envelope, and only one of those eight will allow the barcode to properly show thru the window. Nowhere have I seen any instructions as to how they want the disk inserted; in fact, they say you can put more than one disk in one envelope. This makes me think the window is intended for OUTGOING shipments, not incoming.
Call me an unsatisfied one. The post office says they get them in one day, but I have never received an email confirmation in one day, and it takes two more days minimum to get a return disk. Not the PO’s fault. Ship Monday, get back Thursday or Friday. Ship Friday, get back Wednesday. Not impressive, but good for their bottom line.
That would mean they are printing with a disc inside and vulnerable to damage by pressure from the printing mechanism. Doesn’t sound like a good idea.
That depends on what type of printing mechanism they’re using. I can easily imagine a non-contact method of printing the envelopes, with the DVD inside.
They’re printed with an inkjet printer. It doesn’t even physically touch the envelope, the address is sprayed on.
I agree with you about the window. I’d say its main purpose is so a scanner can read the barcode from each sealed envelope and prints the correct address that goes along with that particular DVD.
Try Blockbuster. Seriously. The main reason is, you can return movies to the Blockbuster store and it is automatically designated as returned. But thereis another bonus, when you return a movie to the store you get to rent one from the store at no charge. So you can get a new movie to watch reight away and then another one will show up in a couple of days.
You know, they tried that with me - after the honeymoon I started to get discs two or three days after they said I’d get them. I complained to them about it and it’s gone swimmingly ever since. That was probably, I dunno, a year ago? Now it’s very rare that I don’t get a disc when I expect one.
I see a problem here. In order for this to work better, I would have to get into my car and drive to a Blockbuster. Why would I want to do that?
My family is lucky to get through our 4 discs on a weekend, and my daughter and wife love Netflix’s anime selection. Netflix is golden for us.
I don’t know about you guys, but my local post office is run by incompetent assholes. Stuff gets misdelivered fairly regularly, and complaints accomplish jack shit.
Must be nice to be in L.A. where there is a Blockbuster on every corner. But where I live, it is 60 miles to the nearest one in the southerly direction, and over 100 miles and across one or more large bodies of water in every other direction. And my boat keeps getting snagged on the icebergs in January.
And the closest video store doesn’t understand my needs. 
Regarding the turnaround time, after having Netflix for about a year, I haven’t noticed any slowdown or speedup. It’s consistently poor.
I just had a conversation with a Netflix tech. He is in the “watch now” instant-download department, but claims to have much experience with the disk/shipping end of the operation. He said that most warehouses pick up their daily mail at 4AM, and that mail is all the overnight mail that other, less-worthy customers get delivered in their mailboxes or PO boxes later that day. He also said the PO does not scan anything for Netflix’s internal use, just counts and weighs envelopes for postage billing purposes.
If that is true, then I wonder why I just got an email confirmation at 11:05AM of the receipt of three disks I returned last week. All the automation in the world won’t help if they sit on it for 7 hours. I fully expect a confirm of the next shipment late today, but they won’t make the PO deadline in time to arrive by tomorrow if past experience is any guide.
True, but I drive right by the Blockbuster during my drive to and from work, works out perfectly.
How would you know how fast I am? I challenge you to a gentlemen’s duel, sir.
Tomorrow, 9 o’clock in the morn. We will each start with 1000 envelopes and the victor shall be he who stuffeth the envelopes most hastily.
Lucky. My service only seemed to get worse after I complained.
Same here. Actually better in my case.
I just read all the posts in this topic and go “HUH?!” None of this has been my experience with Netflix at all and I’ve been a member for three months as well. I get my movies 95 percent of the time the day after my returned movies get there (which also only takes one day). So it boggles me to read people saying these things about it…never once has anything happened to me.
I dunno, maybe it’s depended on where you live in regards to the nearest outlet? I live in downtown Phoenix and the ONLY time they’ve not gotten here the day after is if they don’t have a particular title at my local center and need to get it from another. But even in that case, the ones from other states usually arrive a day early (from their expected date)! And added to this is the fact that they’ve only had to get movies from other places about 5 times so far.
Just so odd to me to be reading the complaints about slow delivery. :eek:
By the way, I’m on the 6 discs at a time plan. Used to be on 7 but needed to save money.
I’ve been a Netflix member for over 3 years. Never had a problem that I noticed. But I’m not waiting by the mailbox like a kid with an order for x-ray specs. I watch movies, a couple days later, I have new movies.
It’s freaking magic and all the rest of you are haters.
You’re lucky. I quit Netflix over mounting problems a year ago. And I get at least one customer a day in my video store explaining how they’ve come back to B&M rentals after finally throwing in the Netflix towel.