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Genius!  I love reading about the clever use of technology to improve efficiency.  Some folks were thinking outside the box at UPS ...

There are "more than 95,000 big square brown trucks delivering packages every day"

...[UPS] employs what it calls a “package flow” software program, which among other hyperefficient practices involving the packing and sorting of its cargo, maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make (taking into consideration, of course, those instances where not to make the left-hand turn would result in a ridiculously circuitous route).

With this software UPS shaved "28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons"

Read the complete NY Times article

Note to self: spend some time each week thinking outside the box and Tivo Every Which Way But Loose