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Speculation on the oddities (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

It either went by a very fast truck or a very slow plane.
Might that have been a train?
We’re rapidly approaching the point where the package has spent more time […] in the city of its final destination, than it did in transit
That’s not really surprising, though. Going from hub to hub is always very fast, whereas leaving the inter-hub backbones is much, much slower. “Last mile” and all that. Same is true when travelling by plane within Europe, f.ex. – getting to t

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