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Australia Post: ’70% Of Our Parcels Are From Online Shopping’

Gizmodo AU

I guess that shouldn’t be a surprising statistic; about the only time an actual letter arrives in my mailbox it’s some kind of bill, or for somebody who lived here 20 years ago. But the shift in our buying habits has forced Australia Post to make some radical changes.


September 23, 2010
Gadgets

What A Package Hears As It Travels Across Europe

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What’s does being shipped sound like? A student at the Royal College of Art in London shoved a dictaphone inside a parcel and sent it off to Helsinki to find out. Here, charmingly animated, is what it heard.