Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Thursday, 2024.03.28
Your adversaries will call you unpatriotic for speaking the truth when
conformity reigns. Ideologues will smear you for challenging the official view
of reality. Mainstream media will ignore you, and those gasbags on cable TV and
the radio talk shows will ridicule and vilify you. But I urge you to hold to
these words:   "In the course of fighting the present fire, we must not abandon
our efforts to create fire-resistant structures of the future."

		Randy Kehler, The Democracy Brigade

2008.04.28

FedEx Road Show

Turns out, FedEx has both “tracking numbers” and “tour numbers.” Tracking numbers are those which show you where your package is as it moves from Point A to Point B, where presumably you are at Point B. For example, a recent purchase of mine was shipped from the vendor in two separate packages. Using the FedEx “tracking number”, we see the trace of Package One’s journey from Point A (the vendor) to Point B (me):

Nicely done, FedEx. “Tour numbers,” however, show your package’s progress from Point A to all points in between Point A and you. Using the FedEx “tour number” shows a different trace for Package Two:

Package Two went from Columbia, MO, through Denver (I missed the opportunity to wave as it went by), on to Salt Lake City and then back to Denver. What fun! Problem is, there’s no way to know what kind of number you have. Not so nicely done, FedEx.

Well, I hope Package Two enjoyed it’s visit to Salt Lake City.


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