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hypertown@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Gotta love international shipping

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Gotta love international shipping

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hypertown@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    For non-Americans, Fort Wayne is very, very far from the ocean. Like a long distance, then over a huge mountain range and then another long distance.

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      If it is a package from China it wouldnt change anything right?

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        I would think that no matter where it’s coming from, falling into the ocean in Fort Wayne would be a neat trick.

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          clipped through the terrain and fell to the bottom of the map where the global water level is set at

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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            Thats what happens when you cheap out on map designers and have one old guy do everything that grew up in a time before computers were a thing even. Oh and of course he is also the only guy programming and maintaining the engine, has to do all the character conception and management demands some immersive sandbox experience with particle physics down to quantum level.

            No wonder the updates just get shittier and shittier.

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              Nah, they didn’t grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software … in COBOL. Also, they don’t bother with documentation because they’re intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.

              The point at when you’re “screwed” is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.

              • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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                https://xkcd.com/505/

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          But does Fort Wayne just mean it’s the next checkpoint on the way to the destination?

          So could easily be some port on the west coast where the container fell off a ship?

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            Most likely but it’s funnier if you don’t think about that.

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              I’m no fun at parties.

              • slst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                me neither, probs why I didnt get the joke in the first place

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          Trebuchet. Really powerful trebuchet

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          Maybe they’re testing out hypersonic mail planes. You lose a box somewhere over Fort Wayne and you’re just goin so goddamn fast it doesn’t land till it hits the gulf

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            Maybe someone can do the math how fast you would have to be going?

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          Fort Wayne would be the last place it was checked before falling into the ocean

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      Thanks. This was useful context.

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      What mountains? There aren’t any mountains between Fort Wayne and Mobile, AL. (Or between it and Fort Albany, ON, for that matter)

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        But if it’s going to the ocean from Fort Wayne, it’ll have to go East.

        The Maumee River meets up with Lake Erie which eventually goes towards the Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

        Although I suppose that still doesn’t have to cross the mountain.

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    Did they at least take a photo of the package having been successfully delivered into the ocean?

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      it’s still in transit

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        It’s in a fiberglass submarine.

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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      Maybe with one ship worker screaming out “WILSOOON!!!”

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    Ah yes… the famous Indiana Ocean.

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      I’m an idiot I read that as Indian ocean and thought somebody didn’t know it exists. No I just can’t read apparently.

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      It’s a long trip from the Maumee to the Erie to the Hudson to the ocean.

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    It still says its in transit so I guess it’ll bob back up again any day now.

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    What a weird place for it to fall into the ocean.

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      Well at least better then a fire at a sea parks.

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        I mean, if she has said that her parent are drowned, I’d be the happiest man in the world. But, a fire?

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          If only they have called emergency services.

          They have such a memorable new number.

          0118 999 881 999 119 725…3

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    In the seaside town of Fort Wayne, IN 🤔

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    These huge ships sometimes arrive with some of the containers missing.

    https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2022-update-published

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      Bloop

      Picture of a container ship, the end stack of containers has toppled over the side of the ship

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    Maritime salvage rules apply, get a boat and go reclaim not only your package but everyone else’s!

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    Removed by mod

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    Must be Evergreen

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      Everblue

    • Digitalprimate@lemmy.world
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      She’s a Maersk post-Panamax.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    “Package vaporised.”

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      “Package banished into THE VOID”

  • Lawyerator@lemmy.world
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    Getting an Oregon Trail vibe from that message.

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      Package delayed due to:

      Arrowed!

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    that shit happened to us on naval ships a few times while underway, but they recovered the mail. people were smoking dunked cigarettes lol

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      I’m sure naval officers are no strangers to wet cigarettes

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    Amazon be like

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      Nah, Amazon just disables tracking altogether as soon as it’s running late.

      • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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        People might think you’re joking, but they literally just did that to me last month.

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          Happened to me yesterday. One day shipping of course. I was super excited for it, now it’s supposed to arrive between 3:30 and 7:30, lame. I guess it’s good I finally got an update.

          Edit: Now 4:15 to 8:15, of course.

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          Had a unicorn moment a while back. Ordered an SSD and for whatever reason the seller didn’t use detailed tracking but only the basic “has been delivered” one. Amazon status turns from “Expected today” to “running late”, thing is: the package was there (letter sized, hence no accurate tracking info… on a 100€ package) tracking status did NOT update so I just got the money refunded, while still getting the ssd. I was tempted to try my luck again but ultimately decided not to.

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      That’s a river, not Ocean

  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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    Package was being delivered by GOB Bluth.

    “Return from whence you came!”

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