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Old 04-21-2009, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by selkin View Post
contra: I know we live in the 21st century, but consider this: delivery guys does not walk around with hightech GPS gadgets in their hands, so only when the guy finished his shift at around 7 pm and went back to the delivery center, updated the status of your order..
in the US, ups has what they call 'DIAD boards'. those are the things that have lcd, touch screens and GPS (!) on them.

UPS knows exactly where their drivers are, to the point of not having much privacy at all anymore (from what I've read on the UPS employee public forum forums).

the DIAD board knows all, tells all
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