Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

Any idea what the source of Addicted-Gamer's data is?

One interesting thing to note, the numbers on pastie.org seem to be mostly shipped via ground, whereas the numbers on addicted-gamer are shipped mostly by next day. According to the pastie.org info, there is only one coming to Menlo Park (where I live), but according to addicted gamer, there's two in transit (one next day, one ground, which is common with the pastie.org data) and more than 20 already delivered.

I was wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, the first day there was no email and it was sitting in an unmarked brown box all day. I hope that changes. I've had packages taken before, and I have to wonder if Google is keeping tabs on them, just in case.

I called them a moment ago and did the same thing. Unfortunately she said that their system is down for maintenance or something but it should be back up sometime in the next few hours.

Confirmed, this works. Sadly I'm not the one getting it. :(

I'm kinda concerned about the security angle on all of this.

You have people phoning up UPS finding out the addresses of where packages are going, and potentially writing down the address if it turns out not to be theirs.

You can see from the tracking results on UPS that UPS are leaving a lot of these on the steps of residences and thus if you setup the correct monitoring you now have the possibility of people running around to the houses of freshly delivered laptops to take them from the door step.

Additionally, where people have signed for them, their last name is listed and with the addition of the zip code from the original source this creates further concern. I've already been able to find out the identity of someone who received one who lives in my zipcode because he has an unusual last name. I just searched for their last name + zipcode on Google and could confirm he is a developer at Engine Yard.

The weak points in the chain are that UPS assumes you must be one of the authorized parties if you have a valid tracking number in hand, and so when you call up to enquire they take that as validation.

What this really comes down to is how these tracking numbers + zipcodes became public in the first place (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996623)

while i agree that this tracking method isn't the best of ideas, I hardly think this merits a decree of a security issue. Any person could steal a package off a doorstep. Stealing mail and other packages not intended for you in a serious federal offense.

Besides all of that is the xmas season here in the U.S., and packages arrive to my apartment building in such quantities everyday, this time of year, that you could argue that XMAS itself is a 'security issue'... All these people, getting packages at close to the same day - all over the country! Imagine... /smugness

(oh and for those that down vote me for being smug, you should be down voting all the folks on this thread that keep calling this a security issue in the first place). It's not like you can subvert the package destination, and if you steal a physical object - you are definitely going to jail.

I played around with the reference numbers, and it seems like Google sent out 3 batches:

AAC1XXXXXX (up to AAC1001982)

AAC2XXXXXX (up to AAC2002127)

AAC3XXXXXX (up to AAC3002115)

All of these turn up 6 pound packages sent within the past few days, with the earliest being the 9th.

Yeah, unfortunately for me as someone who lives in a 55xxx zipcode.

Yeah, you'd expect more being sent to the 90000 range, which includes S.F.

Two sent to my zipcode, neither of them mine. I feel like a kid who just found out there is no santa.

The guy who discovered this list actually called up UPS and confirmed his name and address. Might want to try that in the morning.

Heard a rumor of 60k. But I cannot back it up with any data or the source.

I now see there are several in Wisconsin. My mistake.

Yes, what a pity it's reserved to US citizens :/

Me too, may the best man win.

easy. with ups you can track zip/city to zip/city. thus they know what city and zip they are coming from thus they add your zip or city and wahlaa you have your results

Hopefully not the same university as me

Seems like they are all being shipped from LOUISVILLE, KY, US, according to some tracking numbers I looked up coming to Menlo Park.

one to 19103 as well. many thousands of IT professionals in the city. we're sol brotha

Sorry I mean it will be delivered on the 15th.

I'd guess far more than 5,000 at the rate they are going. I wonder how much they have spent so for what is basically an alpha test...

-1, Smart aleck?

So what if you don't like how I said it? Tell me I'm wrong about the original post, then tell me you're not lying to yourself. The link is cryptic, and to assume prerequisite knowledge of a non-headline event of the day is absurd.