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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by wongarsu on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:31AM (#23065434)
The German Railway used to deliver packages with the regular high speed rail system. You bring it to the train, it gets put in a cargo room, and you arrange for someone to pick it up at the destination station.

It was expensive of course since it was the fastest way to move stuff (trains are faster than cars), but I imagine that at cost it would be cheap enough for takeout.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by kaybe on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:23AM (#23066367)
They still have a courier service:

https://www.bahn.de/p/view/angebot/zusatzticket/ic_kurier.sh...

Delivery can also be done to Paris, Vienna, Basel and Amsterdam along with the ICE trains travelling there.

Prices I'm shown ~0,22 EUR/km, 33€ to and from the station each and a surcharge of 33€ for night or holiday transport, so ~300€ for crossing the country, and it takes less than a day. Maybe there are rich people out there paying that much for takeout?

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