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  2. Automatic Packet Reporting System - Wikipedia

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    Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio -based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. [1] Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, non-directional beacon, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry.

  3. Tracking number - Wikipedia

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    Tracking numbers are useful for knowing the location of time sensitive deliveries. It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using ...

  4. UPS online tracking doesn't actually know where your ... - AOL

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    To my befuddlement, UPS's tracking log had my goods breaking the laws of physics. It showed an "arrival scan" in Newark, NJ, at 6:27 a.m. But three minutes later, at 6:30 a.m., my box was listed ...

  5. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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    ups.com. Footnotes / references. [1][2][3][4][5] United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's ...

  6. Package tracking - Wikipedia

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    Package tracking or package logging is the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting, warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery. Package tracking developed historically because it provided customers information about the route of ...

  7. ASAP Rocky Drops Taylor Swift-Inspired Song ‘Tailor Swif ...

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    The rapper, 35, dropped a new track, “Tailor Swif,” on Friday, August 30, which features references to the famous pop star. “I'm too swift, don't tell Taylor 'bout this s–t (Swift, yeah ...

  8. Quarter midget racing - Wikipedia

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    Quarter midget racing is a form of automobile racing. The cars are approximately one-quarter (⁄4) the size of a full-size midget car. The adult-size midget being raced during the start of quarter midget racing used an oval track of one-fifth of a mile in length. The child's quarter midget track is one quarter that length, or ⁄20 mile (264 ...

  9. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...