Teleporting packages on a global scale
I think I zone out sometimes and catch these glimpses of the future. A friend of mine mentioned to me how DHL is going to restrict their shipping to just international instead of domestic in the USA. All the sudden, I had this thought about how massive a company like UPS is.
For example, on a local scale, we see our UPS delivery guy coming to our door with our packages. But think for a moment the amount of money is involved to run such an operation. For one local facility, you have the cost of property rental, utilities, employee salaries, equipment costs, packaging supplies, tracking devices, trucks, fuel, and whatever else I didn’t list because it escapes me at the moment. Now take that and multiply it on a global scale where there’s an UPS hub that relays packages in most major cities. There’s this amazing network they’ve established that can track the progress of your package from one hub to another in the old school transportation method. It would be real interesting to see what a company like that’s profit margin is.
Then I got this glimpse, a vision if you will…a flash of insight of one day being able to teleport our packages from one location to another. Instead of packages arriving in days via ground shipping, it would get to one major destination to another major destination in an instant and then your packages would be dispatched through the normal channels……….until we get sophisticated enough to have teleportation device in each home.
Instead of 5-7 business days for ground shipping to arrive coast to coast, it would take maybe 2 days max (worldwide included), in some cases, it may even arrive on the same day. This would totally cut down on the amount of traffic on the road for long distance driving for deliveries….and be environmentally sound.
I even saw local stations where people could send or retrieve their packages, sort of like an ATM machine, available 24/7! Each person would have a global shipping ID so there would be less chance of a security threat on unknown packages since each package is really the responsibility of the sender. And all packages would be scanned for hazardous material or security risks upon sending since teleporting would be done on a molecular state anyway.
I’m no expert on this, it was just a cool observation. I wonder if there are any kind of advance study or development in teleportation. I’ve been trying to think of something I could invent or be involved in that would be a huge money maker in the future and be helpful to society…I’m not sure if I’d ever get to see the ability to teleport in my lifetime, perhaps this is too far into the future.
I think I’m going to do a little research and see what I can come up with….if anything, it would just satisfy a curiosity, hehe :blush:
