Interesting...

[pasithea]

So... Calling FedEx last night was apparently the right thing to do. They had promised my laptop by 10:30 this morning and they delivered... Though apparently they have a MATTER TRANSMITTER... Look at the shipping log. Notice anything odd?
EDIT:

Date/Time                 Status                        Location                                            Comments                                      

Dec 12, 2003
 6:13 am              Left FedEx Sort Facility   OAKLAND CA 

Dec 11, 2003
 5:08 am              Package status                INDIANAPOLIS IN                               Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay 
 3:03 am              Arrived at Sort Facility     INDIANAPOLIS IN 

Dec 10, 2003
 7:58 pm              Left FedEx Ramp             C.K.S. INTL AIRPORT TW 
 6:29 pm              Left FedEx Sort Facility    ANCHORAGE AK 

Dec  9, 2003
10:21 pm             Arrived at FedEx Ramp    TA YUAN HSIANG TW 
 4:59 pm              Left FedEx Origin Location TAOYUAN CITY TW 
 3:13 pm              Pickup status                  TAOYUAN CITY TW                             Package received after FedEx cutoff time 

Or you can see the actual transaction log here.

... How did it get from Indiana to Oakland? ...

Ohwell. It's here! Yay! Now I have to work and go to a Christmas party and stuff. :)

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

May I please ask for a cut tag?
It is breaking my friend page horizontal scroll.

If you do, I promise no more hairs in the soap.

[tigrise.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's 11:00 - did it arrive?

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. At about 9:30. :)

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Wow thats so cool! So fast! I need one of those (whatever THAT is that made it get there so fast), with a little work I bet I'd be able to be two places at the same time -- very helpful, indeed.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

4 hours from Indianapolis to Oakland isn't unheard of by jet....take time zomes into account. Indianapolis is *just* within the Eastern time zone, so the 5:08 time stamp translates to 2:08 Pacific time. Those time stamps are all local time for their respective areas, which is why it seems to say that it left Taiwan *after* it left Alaska ;)

[centauress.livejournal.com]

That's four hours plus twenty-four more.

So it's not exactly instant transmission.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

true...how I missed that I'll never know

[zeeth_kyrah]

while it would be nice to believe in matter transmitters, I think FedEx did a nice thing for you that screwed up the computerized automatic tracking: Hand-carried the package from inspection site to their local distribution center.