gps goes postal: could help solve usps delivery woes
This new device was commissioned by the United States Postal Service in order to hunt down some of the inefficiencies in their mail delivery process. Developed by California’s TrackingTheWorld, the gadget is slipped inside of a letter, and tracks the precise journey of an individual piece of mail.
The LetterLogger is small enough to be concealed inside of a standard #10 business envelope, yet contains sophisticated GPS and motion-sensing technology which can record every movement along the letter’s travels. Not only can it record the precise position and timing of each location, but its motion sensors can detect the amount of time when the letter is sitting still, which could help ferret out wasted time during the delivery process.
They should slap one of these directly on every mail carrier too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some delays at the neighborhood bar, donut shop and strip club.
[via Engadget via NaviGadget]
categories: gps + navigation strange + wonderful
tags: gpslettermailmiscellanymotion sensornavigationpostalsatelliteshippingtrackingusps
November 24th, 2007 comments (2): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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Just for your information postal carriers have a device they carry with them on the route called a MSP Scanner. They scan when they leave the office and every 45 minutes they have bar codes in the mailboxs they scan. They a they have a lunch scan and a scan when they finish lunch. They scan at the end of the route and when they return to the office they scan back in for completion of route. I believe they have no time to go to the strip club as you suggest or the local bar. The postal service tracks the daily times of all carriers evryday on the job.
Do you think it can track every time we get chased by a dog, have to give directions to a lost motorist, Check up on Aunt Mae to see if she’s broken her hip, or when we find your dog eight blocks away. If you want to find waste, I suggest you find some management types at their three hour lunch, until then, get a life…