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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 221 points 1 year ago

For non-Americans, Fort Wayne is very, very far from the ocean. Like a long distance, then over a huge mountain range and then another long distance.

[-] seliaste 36 points 1 year ago

If it is a package from China it wouldnt change anything right?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

I would think that no matter where it's coming from, falling into the ocean in Fort Wayne would be a neat trick.

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

clipped through the terrain and fell to the bottom of the map where the global water level is set at

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Thats what happens when you cheap out on map designers and have one old guy do everything that grew up in a time before computers were a thing even. Oh and of course he is also the only guy programming and maintaining the engine, has to do all the character conception and management demands some immersive sandbox experience with particle physics down to quantum level.

No wonder the updates just get shittier and shittier.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, they didn't grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software ... in COBOL. Also, they don't bother with documentation because they're intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.

The point at when you're "screwed" is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

But does Fort Wayne just mean it’s the next checkpoint on the way to the destination?

So could easily be some port on the west coast where the container fell off a ship?

[-] mindrover@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Most likely but it's funnier if you don't think about that.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Trebuchet. Really powerful trebuchet

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe they’re testing out hypersonic mail planes. You lose a box somewhere over Fort Wayne and you’re just goin so goddamn fast it doesn’t land till it hits the gulf

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Thanks. This was useful context.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

What mountains? There aren't any mountains between Fort Wayne and Mobile, AL. (Or between it and Fort Albany, ON, for that matter)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Congratulations, you got me. The Appalachians don't go all the way across the entire North American continent. I apologize for daring to make such a suggestion.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I initially wanted to comment about how clever you were because even most Americans would forget about the Ozarks being in the way, but then I checked a map and realized they were too far west.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

At least you got an answer to how your parcel was lost.

Better the a generic lost on transit email.

A friend of mine had the funniest lost in transit story - they've got genetic joint issues among other things, and they needed a pair of crutches with forearm rests. Turns out the only manufacturer of those still left is based out of South Africa, so they contacted the company and arranged for a set to be shipped over to the US (and it was still cheaper than it would have been through insurance). They got an email from the company and it turns out the shipment to the port got hijacked. The apologetic representative from the company drove a set down to the port and my friend got their crutches a couple weeks later and a funny story out of it. And probably the other set of crutches eventually got to someone else who needed them, so win win, lol.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 65 points 1 year ago

Did they at least take a photo of the package having been successfully delivered into the ocean?

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s in a fiberglass submarine.

[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe with one ship worker screaming out “WILSOOON!!!”

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

It still says its in transit so I guess it'll bob back up again any day now.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Ah yes... the famous Indiana Ocean.

[-] RogueAozame@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I'm an idiot I read that as Indian ocean and thought somebody didn't know it exists. No I just can't read apparently.

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

What a weird place for it to fall into the ocean.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Well at least better then a fire at a sea parks.

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, if she has said that her parent are drowned, I'd be the happiest man in the world. But, a fire?

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[-] Zimmy@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

In the seaside town of Fort Wayne, IN 🤔

[-] Besen@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago
[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] redw04@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

Maritime salvage rules apply, get a boat and go reclaim not only your package but everyone else's!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago
[-] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago
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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
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[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Getting an Oregon Trail vibe from that message.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Package delayed due to:

Arrowed!

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

that shit happened to us on naval ships a few times while underway, but they recovered the mail. people were smoking dunked cigarettes lol

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure naval officers are no strangers to wet cigarettes

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago
[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Nah, Amazon just disables tracking altogether as soon as it's running late.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

People might think you're joking, but they literally just did that to me last month.

[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Happened to me yesterday. One day shipping of course. I was super excited for it, now it's supposed to arrive between 3:30 and 7:30, lame. I guess it's good I finally got an update.

Edit: Now 4:15 to 8:15, of course.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

That's a river, not Ocean

[-] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Package was being delivered by GOB Bluth.

"Return from whence you came!"

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Killer whale anti boat conspiracy in action

[-] sim642@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Did they jump after it to scan the barcode for a tracking update or what?

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

gonna be a wet package

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