All Over the Map

[earthling177]

OK, this might explain why business aren't doing as well as they could -- too many things, too often, are dealt with by brute force

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[spwebdesign]

If you look at the timestamps, there is no way that package actually travelled physically to Newark between its two Portland stops. Maybe there's some virtual e-something tracking going on (as you hint at), but it could just be a computer glitch or typo.

[brass_rat]

Yeah, i'm guessing a bad timestamp issued by whatever did the departure scan in Newark. I'd guess it was an am/pm bit-flip error, but that would mean the turn around in the Newark facility was 5 minutes, and I don't think I believe that either, tho it is more plausible heisenbergian bi-coastal thing. :-)

I tend to agree

[drwex]

but I was envisioning something like that poor guy from Pakistan who fell asleep on his flight to London, and nobody woke him up and he wakes up half-way back to Lahore again...