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Box With Hidden Camera Travels Through the Mail
kkleiner writes "The modern mailing system can seem like magic, but the systems in place to reliably get boxes from A to B is a marvel of logistics. Now, a Dutch designer named Ruben van der Vleuten has unraveled the mystery for non-postal employees by installing a camera within a parcel to record the journey."
An accompanying accelerometer would be interesting as well.
Once these sensors get cheap enough, this should be standard. Or at least standard if you buy insurance. It would be awfully nice to have accelerometers and GPS tracking on important packages. Embedded cameras might help prevent package loss too.
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I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.
As long as it doesn't record the inside of a meat packing plant it'll be fine.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel
Did it include a GPS.
The USPS is such a mess. Once we were delivering something to some location within the next city and after taking so long we tracked it and it somehow wound up in another state all the way across the country. We called the USPS to confirm this and they confirmed that this package that wasn't even supposed to leave the county somehow wound up in another state across the country. A few days later it finally reached its destination (after our customers were getting rather impatient). I believe I've experienced two incidents where something like this happened and a third incident where I ordered something and somehow it simply got lost in the mail. Everyone has experienced these things I suppose, that's why when delivering packages you have to be very careful they are very tightly sealed and taped all over because, their excuse, is that the machine that grabs the boxes may inadvertently rip it open and scatter its contents everywhere and when that happens your package is gone. Oh, it gets sent to a central location where it stays there for a few months and eventually gets auctioned off but I've dealt with them before and they are of no help, your package is gone.