I guess this is kinda one of those kinda strange, and pointless, but cool links I’ve found online.

“ast month A group of 60 GT logistics students, led by logistics expert
John Bartholdi, a professor in the Stewart School, sent identical boxes
bound for places like Lomé, Togo and Split, Croatia. With no indication
that there’s a competition underway, each carrier picks up its parcel,
and the race begins. The progress of the packages was tracked online
and students followed the often Byzantine journey (across oceans,
rivers and jungles and sometimes by bicycle) from Atlanta, Georgia, to
a location that may not even have an official street address.”

The packages are tracked throughout their journey.  In different years, different carriers have “won,” sometimes delivering all the packages, sometimes only one or two.  The destinations from Atlanta, GA this year :

Apia, the only city on Upulu, one of the islands comprising the
country of Samoa, in the western Pacific Ocean. Upulu has no street
addresses.

* Florianopolis, an island off the coast of southern Brazil just
above Uruguay; considered by the carriers to be a “remote area.”

* Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, which is currently experiencing hyperinflation and political unrest.

* Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein and a center of Sunni insurgency in Iraq.

* Yangon, until recently, capital of Myanmar, one of the most
isolated countries in the world. The city was formerly known as
Rangoon, Burma.

Read the full story (not all that long) here
http://www.networkworld.com/community3/?q=node/14778

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