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		felideon on Aug 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside a Netflix Warehouse It's also the reason that the time of day you mail your DVD back has no effect on when you receive your next one. Huh? Sure it doesn't matter if you send it before the last pick up of the day: Netflix will receive and ship a DVD the next day and I get the movie the day after. But if I drop it off after the last pickup time (after 5:00pm for me), I get a DVD back a day later rather than the usual 2-day turnaround.

brown9-2 on Aug 5, 2009 [–]

Huh? Of course Netflix can't pick it up from the post office if the post office hasn't picked it up from the mailbin yet.

What they're referring to is the fact that it doesn't matter if you drop you DVD in the mailbin at 9am or minutes before last pick up.

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