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abruzzi | 10 months ago

Just still be cautious and carry some insurance on your stuff. My brother broke up with his girlfriend, she moved back east. She packed all her stuff up in a PODS and shipped it home, and the pod dissappeared. PODS completely lost it.

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thephyber|10 months ago

Curious if an AirTag (or similar BTLE device on a mesh network) could mitigate some of this risk…

ajb|10 months ago

If this is a metal box like a shipping container, you'd have to attaching it to the outside somehow. However the website just says "steel framed" which suggests the sides might not be metal, in which case it might work.

However it's quite possible that something else happened to it that they don't want to admit. Like maybe their driver was DUI and crashed it.

AmVess|10 months ago

I bought a cellular GPS tracker for my PODS. It worked fine, and being able to track it every step of the way added a bit of stress relief.

It also came in really handy when the driver claimed his truck broke down and he wouldn't be able to drop it off on schedule. I told them I could physically see the container in the storage yard and would like it delivered on the agreed upon date. They dropped it off 20 minutes later.

datavirtue|10 months ago

Isn't that PODS job?

gautamcgoel|10 months ago

That's crazy! How does something so big go missing? Did they ever find it?

jcgrillo|10 months ago

Maybe two records getting written to the database in the same millisecond somehow getting the same uuid primary key... could happen if they use some javascript library to come up with the uuid ;)