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The post office has several standard size boxes they use for priority mail. Inside the postal distribution center these boxes travel on roller conveyors and spiral elevators to reach the vehicles for the hop across the country to another distribution center. Seems logical to link some of the closest
distribution centers with conveyers located above below or alongside existing rail right of ways. A metal container matching the standard priority sized box cross section would leave as soon as filled with a dozen or so boxes. And beat any truck, train, or plane over any short distance. Say New York to Brooklyn. No stop lights or drivers.
(Inverse because the wheels are not in the train, but in the conveyor.)
Boxes like these
https://www.usps.co...press-flat-rate.htm
US postal service web site [popbottle, Jan 01 2014]
London Post Office Railway
http://en.m.wikiped...Post_Office_Railway
Prior Art [8th of 7, Jan 01 2014]
Boxway - Hans Thuma's invention
http://www.youtube....watch?v=GL05bH7VEMI
[pashute, Jan 05 2014]
The new URL instead of popbottle's 2014 one
https://www.usps.co...ty-mail-express.htm
[pashute, Jun 24 2019]
[link]
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What about robbers and vandals? What if something gets stuck? |
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Hopefully robbers or vandals stuck in the system will be cleared by the next "train". |
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//link some of the closest distribution centers with
conveyers// at a new cost? Why? Although time is
important, cost will always win this argument. Priority mail
has been priced on the current system. Besides, and I don't
mean to drone on...but drones... |
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// New York to Brooklyn. No stop lights or drivers. // |
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Don't you all have hairy idiots on bicycles for that? |
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Anyway, we did this one just a few weeks ago. I think it
was an [R.Steele] or [n_m_rm] idea. |
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NEJAB Simply means, "Not Enough Jam And Bees." |
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Not Occam's razor more like Occam's Knife, fork, spoon and other table settings. |
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It should be radioactive underwater solar powered and telepathically guided. |
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It should be deleted and start again? sigh. |
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I've always felt that the spirit of NEJAB is simply a
commentary on something not being Halfbakery enough. A
practical idea with entertaining flaws is Halfbaked. A
practical idea with boring flaws is NEJAB. |
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After 15 minutes I can't find a Venn diagram of adjectives
(that isn't shite), so how about you find one you like and
we'll play. Be sure to get one that includes idiomatic
colloquial acronyms. |
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While practical the only flaw is that it was featured in one of those "spooky places" TV shows. |
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//A practical idea with boring flaws is NEJAB// My thoughts exactly... |
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[+] for your reply to Voice about robber and vandal clearance. |
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Anyway, about the idea: The various sizes of boxes, though standard,
probably span such a range that they have no dimension in common
between them all. Therefore, it's impossible to make a conduit
whose cross-section is filled by one box of any of the standard sizes.
Therefore, I propose to send containers of boxes rather than
individual boxes, the sizes of the containers being all the same so
that they fit in the conduit identically, and the sizes of the
containers and boxes being designed such that an assortment of
several sizes of boxes, being useful for sending different payloads,
can most likely be efficiently packed into a container regardless of
the ratio of the various sizes of the boxes in the assortment. |
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And thank you, whoever asked what NEJAB means, though the question
is now apparently deleted, so that I didn't have to. |
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