How the Netflix Queue Works

Sound & Vision magazine has an article on how Netflix’s queue works. If you’ve wondered why some movies arrive almost immediately after placing them in your queue while others take longer, wonder no longer.

And the outfit is quite efficient: According to the company, some 96% of customers clicking around the site receive their movies the next day. This basically means, barring some major mail-ending catastrophe in your ZIP code, any disc ordered on a Monday morning will most likely appear in your mailbox by Tuesday — unless all copies are at far-away distribution hubs, which occasionally adds a day or two to the delivery date.

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