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FedEx finally did it.

Jan 10th, 2008
by Dan

Imagine the money to be gained if a shipping company was able to send packages across time and space constraints. Imagine how revolutionary that would be…

I ordered a laptop nigh unto 10 days ago and it was shipped on Tuesday. While the end-to-end trip was not close to immediate, various stops along the way actually take it back in time. I present to you proof that FedEx has finally broken the time space continuum.

Date/Time		Activity	Location
Jan 10, 2008	7:47 AM	Int’l shipment release	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
	2:43 AM	In transit	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Jan 9, 2008	11:41 PM	Arrived at FedEx location	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
	12:31 PM	Departed FedEx location	ANCHORAGE, AK
	3:53 AM	Arrived at FedEx location	ANCHORAGE, AK
	2:26 PM	In transit	SHANGHAI CN
Jan 8, 2008	10:50 AM	Picked up	SHANGHAI CN
	10:50 AM	Left origin	SHANGHAI CN

Or, to put that chronologically-

Date/Time		Activity	Location
Jan 10, 2008	7:47 AM	Int’l shipment release	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
	2:43 AM	In transit	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Jan 9, 2008	12:31 PM	Departed FedEx location	ANCHORAGE, AK
	11:41 PM	Arrived at FedEx location	INDIANAPOLIS, IN
	2:26 PM	In transit	SHANGHAI CN
	3:53 AM	Arrived at FedEx location	ANCHORAGE, AK
Jan 8, 2008	10:50 AM	Picked up	SHANGHAI CN
	10:50 AM	Left origin	SHANGHAI CN

So, as you can see, the shipment arrived in Alaska before it left China, and arrived in Indianapolis before it arrived in Alaska. At this rate, I should have my new laptop by yesterday!

Posted in Humor | 13 Comments

13 Comments to “FedEx finally did it.”

on 10 Jan 2008 at 11:05 amHT

It seems FedEx needs to work on its tracking system a bit.

On the bright side though you’ll finally get your lappy and then we can stop hearing you tell us about how you’re going to get your lappy, or that you’re lappy is almost here, or it is here, or there, or on its way to someplace else. Then we only have to listen to how amazing your lappy is, hopefully that won’t last quite as long as the time between your old lappy and new lappy.

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on 10 Jan 2008 at 11:54 ambackstept

Timezones! I think that might account for the wierdness. say you’re traveling from NY to LA, NY is GMT-5, and LA is GMT-8. if the flight lasts 3 hours you arrive at the ’same’ time that you left . . . but your package is traveling east while a NY to LA trip is heading west so . . . my head hurts
on 10 Jan 2008 at 12:29 pmZePuKa

haha, gotta love time zones…

hm, seems I’ve been spared, er… rather, left out of the loop of hearing everything about Dan’s laptop… didn’t even know he was getting one… xD

My laptop is already feeling old… xP

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on 10 Jan 2008 at 1:40 pmHT

Consider yourself fortunate that you have heard nothing.

Incidentally of course its a time zone issue but it looks like the system needs some updating to indicate time zone issues. The whole thing really is quite interesting.

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on 10 Jan 2008 at 6:20 pmDan

well duh.. of course time zones are the deciding factor.. Using UTC would be much simpler, yet this is funnier.

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 8:02 amDan

WOOHOO It just arrived in Rochester 3 minutes ago.

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 11:38 amZePuKa

…you’re sure? It could be just another one of their time dimension tricks…

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:20 pmDan

Nope.. its at home. It arrived @ ~9:30 today. Having to work has been excruciating.

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:31 pmZePuKa

Haha, you’ll make it. xD

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 6:33 pmDan

After installing the 4gb of ram I got, behold- the results:
Processor - 5.0
RAM - 5.9
Graphics (per Aero spec) - 3.6
Gaming Graphics - 4.4
Primary Hard Disk - 5.1

Not bad. I foresee the addition of the 8600M GT card within the next year or so. Maybe an 8900.

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 6:45 pmHT

Ouch those graphics are weak…that’s too bad. Go for the newer card within the year for sure. The rest of the stuff rox though ;-).

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on 11 Jan 2008 at 10:37 pmZePuKa

haha, my friend hath dubbed the zomgee guys ‘the 3 computeers’

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on 14 Jan 2008 at 10:20 amHappy Mama

Try doing it with a human. When I went to China American air does it daily with human beings. We left at 830 am in China had a three hour trip to Japan had a 45 min lay over and then arrived in San Jose Ca at 8 am the same day… The international date line really messes with your head. It got pitch black again and people were trying to sleep when we had been up for only 6 hours or so.

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