adamantium
Limp Gawd
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Your first assumption is that Taiwan post would pre-sort the US-bound packages by state or even divide them by east/west. That is not necessarily true. This isn't the job for Taiwan post, it's the job for the postage distribution partner company in the States. So postal workers read only the "USA" part of the address and so they put all such packages into a large container marked "USA". When it's full, they send it to their partner in the States. That partner will decide the port it arrives.
I agree with you on this. It isn't my assumption that Taiwan would presort the packages. The reason I point out that the packages were individually addressed is that this means that they don't have to be remailed once they get to the US. This allows them to be put on any ship bound for the US, preferably the one that is the least expensive and takes the least time. Long Beach is the easy answer for this. NJ isn't known for its high volume of Asian shipping traffic, but long beach is and so is the port of Los Angeles and even Seattle, and so you really have to stretch your mind to find a reason to send them all the way to NJ. One container filled with individually addressed packages shipped to Long Beach is no different than one container filled with individually addressed packages shipped to New Jersey, except that the later costs more and takes longer. So I am simply trying to understand why the farthest more expensive port was chosen (twice) when three better defaults were available. Otherwise why don't all Asian shipments go to NJ? There has to be a reason, W360 probably knows it, and I would just like to understand it.