Thanks!

One thing I have noticed that can make a big difference in the Nexflix turn around time is the bar-code. On the white DVD-sleeve for the movie is a bar code. If you place the disk into the red return envelope correctly then that bar code shows through the little window. When I remember to do that right it can shave a day or two off the return time.

I thought that may be the problem with my rentals, so I made sure the barcode was in the window. It made no difference, at least for me...

I hate that the barcode window placement goes against anglo-common sense for placing the disc right-side-up in the envelope.


On a side note, between the movies I get from Netflix and the ones I get as Academy screeners, it's a wonder I ever go to movie theaters anymore. I think home theater is going to put movie theaters out of business some time in the next quarter century.

If current batch of noisy theater patrons don't casueit first ;)

I think you're right. Going to a movie theatre is a real trial now. High ticket prices, expensive goodies, bad sound, blurry picture, sticky floors, theatre seats with black spots on them, cell phones ringing/singing, people talking during the movies, people kicking my chair, people sneaking in through the exit, crying babies, unattractive theatre goers, dead people on the ground... A real pain, I tells ya.

Sounds like all the same reasons I like to leave my house and go out to a moive...

I'm pretty sure I know the barcode window in the envelope and it doesn't have much (if anything) to do with disc returns (notice that no instructions are given on how to put the disc back in the envelope for return).

The window in the envelope allows process improvements for shipping. It used to be that the window wasn't there, so they had to work hard that the correct disc ended up in the envelope with your mailing label on it.

This way they can just put any disc into the next unlabelled envelope, seal it, and send it through their printer which will scan the visible barcode for the contained disc and then print the appropriate label.

They might be rescanning when the envelopes come back but if so they're not promoting it.

This stuff is fantastic. I bought some for work. You should see the state of the DVDs that people check out! Any time we have a complaint about a DVD that skips, I goop it, and it works about 90% of the time. Definitely worth the purchase price.