Hugo's Progress
Wow, my Hugo trophy is having a Grand Tour. Although I don't suppose it gets to see much from inside a cardboard box.
When it arrives, I'll post a picture.
Location Date Local Time Activity
Philadelphia, PA, United States 08/16/2017 12:43 P.M. Import Scan
08/16/2017 7:51 A.M. Arrival Scan
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 5:40 A.M. Departure Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 4:29 A.M. Departure Scan
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 4:22 A.M. Arrival Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 12:59 A.M. Arrival Scan
Malmo Sturup, Sweden 08/15/2017 11:43 P.M. Departure Scan
08/15/2017 10:29 P.M. Arrival Scan
Vantaa, Finland 08/15/2017 9:56 P.M. Departure Scan
Helsinki, Finland 08/15/2017 9:16 P.M. Departure Scan
08/15/2017 7:16 P.M. Export Scan
08/15/2017 6:21 P.M. Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
08/15/2017 6:13 P.M. Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Finland 08/15/2017 1:06 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS
My nephew flies internationally for UPS. It's amusing to imagine him transporting it for me, although he more commonly flies trans-Pacific.
Best (or at least most writerly) tale he told me: the week J.K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book was released, UPS had to lay on extra flights to get all the books to the bookstores.
Now, there's a benchmark for success...
Ta, L.
Thur. afternoon update -- It has been out joyriding around Minneapolis in a brown truck since 9:30 this morning. Surely not much longer now...?
When it arrives, I'll post a picture.
Location Date Local Time Activity
Philadelphia, PA, United States 08/16/2017 12:43 P.M. Import Scan
08/16/2017 7:51 A.M. Arrival Scan
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 5:40 A.M. Departure Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 4:29 A.M. Departure Scan
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 4:22 A.M. Arrival Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 12:59 A.M. Arrival Scan
Malmo Sturup, Sweden 08/15/2017 11:43 P.M. Departure Scan
08/15/2017 10:29 P.M. Arrival Scan
Vantaa, Finland 08/15/2017 9:56 P.M. Departure Scan
Helsinki, Finland 08/15/2017 9:16 P.M. Departure Scan
08/15/2017 7:16 P.M. Export Scan
08/15/2017 6:21 P.M. Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
08/15/2017 6:13 P.M. Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Finland 08/15/2017 1:06 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS
My nephew flies internationally for UPS. It's amusing to imagine him transporting it for me, although he more commonly flies trans-Pacific.
Best (or at least most writerly) tale he told me: the week J.K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book was released, UPS had to lay on extra flights to get all the books to the bookstores.
Now, there's a benchmark for success...
Ta, L.
Thur. afternoon update -- It has been out joyriding around Minneapolis in a brown truck since 9:30 this morning. Surely not much longer now...?
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Aug 16, 2017 07:14PM
That is a wonderful set of travels... Albeit in a box. I hope it arrives soon, safe and sound!
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That's exciting! Hopefully it'll arrive safely to you soon. ^^
Interesting that it was shuffled between Köln (Cologne) Germany and Roissy (just outside Paris, where Charles de Gaulle airport is) twice before being sent on to Philadelphia. I wonder if they forgot to take it off the plane the first time? But then how would it have been scanned..?
Congratulations and applause, of course! I was struck by seeing 'Köln' spelled 'Koeln'. The old convention of placing an 'e' after a vowel that should have an umlaut when one is using a machine that is not capable of printing an umlaut has been dying rapidly, since computers pretty easily handle many and various diacritical marks.
Perhaps the dieresis (coördinate, coöperation, reëntry) will make a comeback. The New Yorker magazine uses it. But most people are unaware of it and confuse it with an umlaut. One reader posted (I forget where) a put-down of Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins) as ignorant for using "an umlaut"--a dieresis--in IIRC 'coördination'.
Steven wrote: "Congratulations and applause, of course! I was struck by seeing 'Köln' spelled 'Koeln'. The old convention of placing an 'e' after a vowel that should have an umlaut when one is using a machine th..."
Speaking personally, I would be quite happy for the dieresis to stay dead with a stake through its heart, and most other diacritical marks likewise. It's just one more thing to fail to remember or get wrong in a language already filled with them, not to mention all the vocabulary. And unique spelling.
Ta, L.
Clearly the time stamps are not the way to order processing records without accounting for time changes. Presumably one arrives in Koln and leaves Koln before arriving and leaving France.
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 5:40 A.M. Departure Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 4:29 A.M. Departure Scan
Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France 08/16/2017 4:22 A.M. Arrival Scan
Koeln, Germany 08/16/2017 12:59 A.M. Arrival Scan
Shane wrote: "Interesting that it was shuffled between Köln (Cologne) Germany and Roissy (just outside Paris, where Charles de Gaulle airport is) twice before being sent on to Philadelphia. I wonder if they forgot to take it off the plane"My guess is they just forgot to do the departure scan. So it arrived in France at 4:22 and they scanned it in, but then got an error message, so at 4:29 they had to register that it had indeed left Germany (7 min isn't enough time to actually travel.) Then it left France 71 min later for the US.
