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The only place it's still in service is at a bank drive-up.]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
If they can put a system like this in the sewers, what exactly is the hold-up on delivering fiber to every sewer-connected home? It's like that Google April Fool's Joke but in reverse.]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
I wonder if this was in any way inspired by a certain Alaska senator ;)]]>Aug 1st 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Now instead of eMailing a letter, you can flush a letter to someone you love.
Seal with a kiss.]]>Aug 1st 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/BarC0de/?action=view¤t=LadiesHomeJournalDec1900paleofuture.jpg]]>Aug 2nd 2009 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/In the end it never panned out because the cost of it was just over the edge of financing.
]]>Aug 2nd 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 2nd 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 2nd 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 3rd 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
Leaving your mail on the mailbox allows people to get it, while a tube in your house will be likely to be safer.]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
(Sorry if double post, wrong password me think.)]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 3rd 2009 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Maybe it'll use the same tubes. The question is whether or not the robots in the tubes, carrying email, will conflict with the carrier pigeon in the tubes (implementing IP over carrier pigeon -- actual RFC, look it up). I mean, this could scare the poor carrier pigeons that are the basis of our whole tube based internet! or obstruct them. And then what about when the robots become sentient, see the pigeons as a threat and ... decide their fate in a microsecond: extermination.]]>Aug 1st 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 2nd 2009 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/If the system works with a watertight seal, underpressure and a tube/canister mating with an airplane-like terminal system you can remove the contents without bad smells, water, etc.

It seems like a very good idea, but it will eventually lead to huge (read: REALLY HUGE!!) unemployment figures.]]>Aug 1st 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Indeed it is, one of my favorites in the rock genre :)
It covers every single element of PT's music, and the production is absolutely superb.]]>Aug 1st 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
The routing number was dialed on a rotary phone dial and then you dropped in the shipping tube and I think the basement routed it to wherever it needed to go.

It's not exactly impressive that this guy placed second for an idea that has already been tried and abandoned.]]>Aug 1st 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
Oh well. Service probably would have been crappy anyway.]]>Aug 1st 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Second: I'd hate to be the mailroom worker. Boss: "Yeah, Johnny, go put on your rubber gloves and pick up that TPS report from the sewers, please"
Third: Just think of all the spam clogging up the pipes!]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/
"Well, throw it away then!"

"No, I mean we got our Safeway delivery!"]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 7th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#Historical_use

Anyone heard of this?]]>Aug 1st 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-deliver-your-mail-via-insane-network-of-u/Aug 1st 2009 2:29PM