The Voyage of My iPad

[NerdGirl]

I bought an iPad a week or so ago, and I am finding it very entertaining to watch its journey around the world on the UPS tracking site. It's supposed to get here on Thursday.

China 06/24/2011 6:59
EPZ, China 06/24/2011 20:30
Chengdu, China 06/26/2011 6:35
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 06/27/2011 16:29
Anchorage, AK, United States 06/27/2011 15:01
Louisville, KY, United States 06/28/2011 4:45
Mississauga, ON, Canada 06/28/2011 6:09
Mount Hope, ON, Canada 06/28/2011 7:45
Mississauga, ON, Canada 06/28/2011 9:00
Mount Hope, ON, Canada 06/28/2011 9:30

I'm in Alberta now, so I don't know why it took a detour to Kentucky and then Ontario after it arrived in Alaska.

[Digit]

Much to UPS's dismay, I'm sure, the Traveling Salesman Problem is an NP hard problem. (Not that the package has to go to a set of cities, as in the conventional statement of the Traveling Salesman Problem, but it's a similar problem given that they have a set of airports to work with and lots of packages with different destinations.)

[wired]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldport_ ... air_hub%29

EDIT: pretty much every package shipped by UPS will go through Kentucky; note that I say pretty much.

[NerdGirl]

Well, that explains Kentucky, then. I wonder where it's going to go next? It should end up in Calgary at one point before it gets here, but I do hope it stops in some random place in Saskatchewan or Manitoba before then, because that would be much more interesting.