Deliveries

Amazon Tote Hand Delivers Your Orders Weekly, In A Bag, To Your Door

7:59AM July 30, 2010 | Jason Chen

As a greener alternative to Amazon Prime’s free two-day shipping, there’s Amazon Tote, which gives you all your orders from the last week delivered once a week in a snazzy reusable tote bag. More »


Mobile

Hopefully Your Courier Doesn’t Throw Your iPhone 4 Like This

2:40AM June 25, 2010 | Jason Chen

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Here’s a video we captured of a FedEx guy “dropping off” a package at our home. Hopefully the packaging on your iPhone is protected enough that this doesn’t happen to you. More »


Gadgets

Do You Know When Fedex Drops Your Package? Senseaware Does

12:21PM November 25, 2009 | Jason Chen

Package-tracking sensors aren’t super new, but Senseaware is one that’s unique because it tracks multiple criteria – temperature, location, drops and light exposure – and updates those to the web constantly. Useful when you’re transporting organs and not MP3 players. More »


Geek Out

Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It

4:00AM April 16, 2009 | Jason Chen

Mail hoarding is a fantastic phenomenon. Slate explains it as the cases where postal workers stockpile mail/packages in their trucks, then act like they delivered them. I discovered that this happens with Fedex too.

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Geek Out

Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 27 Metre Delivery Toss, That’s What

3:01AM January 6, 2009 | John Mahoney

This candidate for UPS-guy-of-the-year doesn’t even wait for his van to come to a complete stop before someone’s brand new something gets hail-mary’d into the garage. Thankfully, a security cam captured it all.

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