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I Want My GPS!

Published 3/21/05

Filed under: Miscellaneous

My new camera is on its way via UPS. Obviously I can track it, but the only info I have is:

9:07 A.M. SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV, US DEPARTURE SCAN

South Charleston is about three hours from here, so it may arrive today. But who knows how many stops the truck has to make, plus there are those darned mountains is has to cross.

I’m pretty sure UPS trucks have GPS; UPS has been on the tech cutting edge for a long time, and it puts a lot of careful thought into everything it does.

So wouldn’t it be cool if I could click a “Track Your Package Live” link and see the location of the truck on a map? It has a database that can serve tracking info on millions of packages, and each of those is assigned to a specific truck, so serving the location of those trucks isn’t that much more of a chore.

What say you, UPS?

The Fray

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