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I worked at UPS for a season loading their delivery trucks. Each shift was like a really intense game of 3D Tetris, trying to use the space efficiently as more

I worked at UPS for a season loading their delivery trucks. Each shift was like a really intense game of 3D Tetris, trying to use the space efficiently as more heavy packages of various shapes rapidly arrived from the conveyor belt. So you're not just optimizing the path-finding. You've also got to do optimal bin-packing at the same time.

posterboy 9y ago
To squeeze every last dollar out of the available space becomes a quite literal meaning in this context. The ammount of the packages ariving damaged from the sheer load of each on top on another in the containers is really impressive, too.