Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

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.

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.)

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.

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.