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Finally Delivered... The package is a QB robot from Anybots. It's on it's way home from London to San Jose (we thought) for an upgrade. Over the last 18 days,

Finally Delivered... The package is a QB robot from Anybots. It's on it's way home from London to San Jose (we thought) for an upgrade. Over the last 18 days, FedEx has literally flown it across the Atlantic 7 times. The sender inadvertently reversed the Sender and Receiver on the waybill, and was advised to 'just put arrows between the two, it happens all the time'. It got as far as San Jose distribution, who apparently missed the arrows and shipped it right back to London. Since then, and in spite of literally dozens of phone calls, this guy has been racking up frequent flyer miles. QB in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U

peterwwillis 11y ago
Interestingly, based on the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by ship, the same feat would take just over 24 days by sea using a transatlantic liner (which don't really exist anymore as they were obsoleted by the 747 and replaced by cruise ships). Of course it's not in any way a direct comparison because one flight across would take <8 hours, but I just figured the crossing by sea would take much longer. By sail it would depend on the boat - 19 days for a small vessel averaging 5 knots a day, a week for a larger one averaging 12 knots, and 3.5 days for a racing trimaran doing 30 knots.