That run through the tube has perhaps the best sound my GoPro's ever recorded.

That was brilliant. Simply brilliant Tom!!

tom scott

That was so sickkkk

Confirmed. I smiled as soon as you mentioned it.

I was so surprised they said yes! Everyone usually always say no when you ask! That end shot was so amazing.

Tom!! I know this was a video specifically about the pneumatic tubes... but that cafe has some other rather cool features too like the passage to the toilets being a "hidden" entrance where you push a bookcase... or how you can dispense water from either the sewing machine or dentist chair etc... it's a funky cafe for sure!

Leaving the shot via hidden passage, with no explanation, would've been an interesting way to end the video.

And wheelchair bathroom is R2-D2 women is Princess Leia and men is Luke skywalker

Their tea is also really nice

@Akram Darwazeh absolutely

Heath I concur with your sentiment 100%♡ Australia

As a kid, I thought that pneumatic tubes were the coolest thing. Good to see they're still around!

Banks with a multi-lane drive-thru still use them.

@Detroit Micro Sound but that isn't as fun

@Reinhardt Def. true there! 😄

Tubular!

Idk if they’re common in every supermarket but at my local Market Basket (big supermarket company in Massachusetts and New Hampshire) they use one to frequently send money envelopes and stuff between the checkout area and the customer courtesy booth

Ever since I was a young boy, I've always wanted to see what it looked like to be sent through a pneumatic tube. Thank you for this!

I've heard that it sucks, hard.

Just watch Polar Express bruh

Loved seeing a real example of that, see heaps of examples of similar things in various films and games but they're almost always animated and sci-fi

In Germany this System is called "Rohrpost" - literally "pipe mail" or "tube mail". Very typical, German description. Little fun fact: During the day of the Apollo space program, messages delivered through pneumatic tubes replaced runners in mission control. During especially busy phases of a mission, there was just no time to return the empty canisters. Messages were read and the canisters were just dropped on the floor. The ensuing mess gave rise to mission control being called "The Trench" - because one guy looked around at some point, looking at the piles of empty message canisters and quipped "Gee, this looks like I am back in the trenches!", referring to the mess of empty shells that littered a firing position during battle. The phrase stuck.

's Baggers in Nuremburg Germany is another like this.

That's a great little story

Haha

Tubes gotta be fun in a massive office or city goverbment center

In swedish it is called "rörpost" meaning the same thing as in german

The camera going through tubes (visuals & audio) was remarkably like a Doctor Who opening sequence 😅. This was awesome - hope cafe gets rewarded with many new curious customers as result of this

Personally reminds me more of going through a Stargate

@msekiller64 or the old series 'Sliders'.

I think Tom really wanted to put his camera through a pneumatic tube system after the hospital video, and that footage did NOT disappoint, that was so cool

That felt like a really good waterslide but with less faffing with swimsuits!

I wanted to put me through the tube 🥺

He knows what our goblin brains want

It was surprisingly easier to follow what was happening and have sense of direction than I anticipated.

I know now what it’s like to be in one of the tubes in Futurama

I work in a hospital, and like most hospitals in the US, it has a pneumatic tube system. When a patient has a feeding tube, it is not uncommon to send a bag of their medicinal food through the tube system from the pharmacy or nutrition department to the unit the patient is on. So hospitals also send food through their pneumatic tube systems, just not solid foods, more or less.

It's also a great way for the ED social worker to send a parking pass or something small up to an inpatient floor at 3 a.m. when they can't leave the ED and some rando floor nurse or provider requests something that can absolutely wait until the morning but they've managed to convince themselves that it's an emergency and can't wait until the morning.

Where in the US are you from? I live in Ohio and don't think I've ever seen a pneumatic tube system in our hospitals, granted I don't exactly hang around hospitals much.

My old colleague was the one who designed the whole system! He’s a genius. Great to see Tom Scott in Christchurch!

nah

I think pneumatic tubes are still used quite widely in UK supermarkets. My local Sainsbury's certainly has a system. It's used to send cash from the tills to the cash office. I've seen it in action and the tubes are clearly visible up in the roof though if you didn't know you probably wouldn't realise what you were looking at.

Was about to say the same thing. My local Asda has one too!

Just to complete some kind of supermarket trifecta - my local Tesco has one, at least in the pharmacy!

Likewise here in Spain and, I imagine, most of the rest of the continent.

Used to work at a decently large Sainsbury's in England, and they have a pneumatic tube system - when cash is counted towards the end of opening hours, it's sent to the cash office through the pneumatic system rather than just being carried from the checkouts (which were at the front of the store) to the cash office (as far away as it was possible to get from the checkouts without going into the warehouse)

Oh I'd forgotten about Sainsbury's! When I was little, I used to see the end points at the till, and when I understood what a pneumatic tube system was, I thought it was really cool. ;)

I too worked in Sainsburys, the pneumatic ‘flight’ system is so loud when it’s running! The store I worked in got ‘robbed’ via this system while I worked there. The thieves sat in the roof and cut a hole in the tube after the blower motor thing, stole the pods, took cash out and then put the empty pod back down the tube to the cash office. What a day that was!

@James Fitzgerald Wow, I'm honestly kinda impressed by that! Wouldn't have been able to do it where I worked due to the structure of the building, but that's some real creative theft right there! Love the touch of returning the empty flight pods into the system

I'm sure there's a museum with something similar up North. I think it's a pulley till system. You post the receipts and cash and then you pull the lever to send it round the room, or upstairs. Isn't it odd that... we don't walk that much in the past, but created such systems....

Oh my god I saw this thumb and I was like huh this is just like C1 here at home— OH. Fun fact, our city has almost no nightlife and C1 is partly popular because it's one of the only places open late at night.

Same. I was quite surprised 😯

SAME!

I didn't realize until I saw the old Alice in Videoland building. Today I learned that the old controversial owner has moved along, so I'm hoping to visit C1 and try this out. :D

more of a sad fact really

HEYYY IT'S AVATAR GUY

That's Class that they let you send the gopro through!!! if I ever travel there I'm 100% visiting them just for letting you do that. That was awesome!

We have a super advanced system here in Sweden in a hospital. It also have robots to handle the tubes so the tubes can have different priority, be delayed in a storage and more. Really cool system!

We need a Tom Scott video about it !

When I was a kid the bank my parents used closed down and I remember us all guessing what would replace it. Us kids thought a fast food restaurant that used the tubes to deliver the food would be the coolest thing ever! They repurposed the old building into a carwash, though. It's so cool to see that someone delivers food through pneumatic tubes! It's not quite like I imagined at the drive through of the bank, but still cool!

When I was a kid in Minnesota there was a McDonalds in a strip mall that had a drive through out in a kiosk in the middle of the parking ramp. They used a pneumatic tube to deliver the food out to the kiosk.

@travtotheworld : How come we stopped such things then ? I find it odd that, we go through so many phases globally.... It's interesting.

Very neat! Exactly the nice blend of teaching history and showing an interesting place I did not know of. The cafe must feel kinda lucky to have you there, you and your teams scripting delivery and editing is always great. Must feel exciting to get some pneumatic footage this time around

It was almost a signature of Costco when I was growing up, because as you approached checkout you’d see them descend from the ceiling to the registers. Always very exciting when an employee used it because they were either sending a lot of cash up or were putting in a order for a very expensive item that you would then pick up on your way out.

I felt unbelievably happy at the line "And they said yes!" Great video Tom!

Especially because he was trying to fool us beforehand into presuming it was a no! 😂

@LH The thumbnail gave it away. 😄

"I asked the manager if I could film him and his missus getting busy on my GoPro. And they said Yes!"

it make me remember the portal 2 section when you trevel through the tube tube system

Yes!!! I was trying to remember what it reminded me of!

I've always felt that pneumatic tubes is a brilliant and underused technology

If they could solve the issue of things getting stuck, imagine if that's how our city mail systems worked! A tube to every home. Or drop your trash in tubes and it's sucked off to the rubbish dump. Uber Eats replaced but Tuber Eats.

@Lance Watson There is a city somewhere with pneumatic rubbish system. Though apparently it is somewhat prone to problems with jams and the like. From memory they get a "little person" (dwarf) to go into the tubes when there is a jam and fix them.

My father was a hospital pharmacist. When I was a child, I shouldn't have been in the hospital pharmacy (every hospital has one, and no one sees it). They had tubes. He and his coworkers were kind enough to teach me how to send short order medications to the various floors. It was fun. Dial it in, close the door, and push the button. Whoosh! and off it went. (And yes, I was watched over closely.)

I remember checking out this system in a museum in New Zealand a few years ago. It was really cool to see how it worked and I'm surprised that there aren't more people using them

there are still commonly used in westfield shopping centres here in australia, along with woolworths and so on. its mainly used for sending things between the cashiers and the back office.

Some co-op stores i worked in had pneumatic tube systems for sending paper cash from the tills to the safe. The safe was time delayed so the money was far safer in there than the tills. One store had solid pvc pipes and the capsule would make a clattering sound as it zoomed overhead. But the rest of the stores had corrugated pipework which would make a zipping sound as the capsule flew through. Customers used to be amazed by the system when they saw it in use.

I remember being about 8 years old going into a SpecSavers glasses shop, and they had these packed glasses flying around the ceiling in these tubes. I was impressed, no people to mess anything up. Loved it!

That ending was everything I’d hoped for and more. An absolute thing of beauty.

The „and they said yes“ was quite surprising

Definitely Stargate-SG1 vibes.

@fritzlb I actually wondered if he started the sentence in a "it didn't work out" tone for fun. :D

Should come with a motion sickness warning though

Yea, definitely brilliant

I work at a hospital in California that uses a tube system. Every now & then we hear an announcement that "the tube system is temporarily down", but not too often. It definitely saves time getting samples from the various floors sent off to the lab which, in turn, gets the results back quicker. Great video as usual Tom!

They tried something like that in the Southern state I lived it. It got rejected by upper management because "people need to stop being lazy" and "it's unamerican"

That fist person view of the tube was super cool to watch. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to see that. Thanks, Tom!

I work at a supermarket in Australia, where we use pneumatic tubes to send excess cash upstairs to the safe, so there isn't too much money in any one till. Not sure how long my store has had it or how common it is in other stores though.

Very cool ! The company I work for still has a pneumatic tube system for transporting transport documents between offices on different floores. The are quite cool :) And the Go pro ride was awesome

The company that I used to work for, built a hanger with pneumatic tubes to deliver the smaller aircraft parts (hardware, tubes of sealant, etc.). It is the largest diameter pneumatic tube system available and it worked great. At the start of a job, we put an order through on a computer, start our work prep and ten minutes later we would have our parts.

I liked the pause before "and they said yes", since often people have to turn down the camera journey for practical reasons. Really cool that we got that final scene of the journey through the tubes!

Tom really seemed satisfied about the yes too.

The thumbnail kinda spoiled the answer though haha

He really had me expecting the "no" and already wondering why they wouldn't let him

I mean, it was a definite no for the last tube system Tom visited (which to be fair involved medical stuff).

Same. That was nicely done, and he knew what we all were expecting.

My mum works in the pathology lab of a hospital and they have these tunes delivering samples to her, they're actually quite cool

One of the supermarkets used to use them to send "things" from the till area to an office I assume, this was maybe 10 years ago here in QLD, it seems like a good system to get small amounts of physical items from place to place without too much fuss. Human sized pneumatic tubes would be cool, like transport to and from places hard to access otherwise.

This is cool!! Like you said They are used in hospitals alot still and seeing how they actually work is cool. There are several different stations with blowers and switching stations to transfer from one tube network to another based on its destination, it's like a rail network with sidings and switch yards. Really cool.

Strangely watching this I feel an abnormal amount of love for my country and for Christchurch, a city I lived in for 7 years. I'm glad you're enjoying here, Tom! Also did anyone think of the end of the A Space Odyssey 2001 while watching the gopro footage? Very cool!

Nice work on the video, Tom's team. I wasn't aware that C1 had inhabited the old P.O. building in Cathedral Square/Hereford St. And yes, I can see where loose chips in the tubes could be a hazard. There's a bit of history if you look up the uses the building had too.

It is astonishing to me how closely the go-pro footage is to the cutscenes in Portal where you travel through the pneumatic tubes! Thanks for the awesome video.

the sound too!

I was thinking the wormholes in the Stargate TV shows.

Also Stargate!

normal person: cool tubes tom! gamers: it looks like the thing in portal 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm now convinced that someone stuffed a microphone in a tube like this to get the sound effects in portal

I love how concise these videos are and the fact that there are no sponsorship breaks

I've worked at an IKEA that still uses pneumatic tubes occasionally! They used to transport cash when the tills were too filled up or if you needed more change, but since there's secure cash-machines that aren't accessible by staff now, it's not used for that purpose anymore. Occasionally items like keys that's are needed somewhere by someone gets transported through them, though!

In fact, my local tech-shop still has a pneumatic tube system between the back office and its registers. I was amazed to see it in action, when they didn’t have any change left. So they called the office and they sent some change to the register.

I worked on the build of a brand new state-of-the-art children's hospital that had these tubes (called Lamson tubes after one of the original UK manufacturers) installed to move samples etc around quickly between wards, pharmacy, pathology etc. Edit: the control panel on the wall said Lamson which is the modern company supplying them to hospitals etc.

Interesting. I have heard of this cafe a couple of times, but I haven't been there yet. I have been to the building a couple of times pre-quakes though, visiting Alice in Videoland, and an art gallery on one of the higher floors. The lift was still the original with trellis doors.

I'm Tom Scott, and today, I'll be sending myself through a pneumatic tube to see how long it takes me to travel 2 kilometres.

would make a hell of a Tom Scott Plus video!

Futurama be like:

"i've overcome my fear for travelling in pneumatic tubes" nice, looking forward to this :D

Hyperloop be like :p

"And in my last ever video, I'll be..." (Just kidding Tom, don't do it).

I work at a hospital and our tube system is incredible, and it absolutely is integral in saving lives.

I remember as a child (1960s) a local dept store located in a city's downtown - a multi-story city block with the store spread out over 4 or 5 floors. The check-out register in each dept was fitted out with pneumatic tubes in which the payment was sent to a central cashier area, and receipts returned the same way.

You just keep being my "amazing experience" guy. I cannot thank you enough!

I was just there yesterday! so cool that you have traveled down here :) Last time I went to that cafe they even had a machine that prints a picture of your face onto the foam in your coffee.

I know it's kind of a pain, but I wish more of these existed

A hospital I used to work at still uses pneumatic tubes. We'd used them to send blood samples to the lab quickly and works quite efficiently

Many hospitals, including the one I work at, use them because they are far more efficient than having people manually haul samples, which can sometimes clot if left out too long. It also helps us get results faster.

Same, i worked at one hospital here in Spain and they still used it back in 2016.

I work in a major FR hospital, can confirm, it's still used

same, I had a blood test just last week and commented on the tube system they have. Seems they might be more common than Tom suggests - at least in hospitals. This is in the UK in a reasonably (

Samples seems to be a good reason for for pneumatic tubes. At the company where my father work they have to take samples from deliveries (foodproduction, so truckloads of product) and the get send to the labs via pneumatic tubes. For the same reason, easy and efficient.

A hospital I used to work at has them, it was honestly kinda fun to send papers, samples etc with them!

Not going to lie but I've learned about so many tourist attractions in a country I live in through your videos. Just added this cafe to my next road trip!

I worked in Wisconsin hospitals, all of them had pneumatic tubes, didn't know that other places don't have them - they save so much time for lab samples

When I was in high school ( the late 80's) I worked at a hardware store that had tubes. We used them to send stuff to the office and empties so kids could watch them go through the tubes as they ran down the back aisle of the store.

Actually, you can find quite a few hospitals in India who still use the pneumatic tube system to send and receive sample collections and for other things, mostly the busiest hospitals like the one which I saw was sunshine hospitals, it was quite fascinating to watch them still use the tube system for quick work despite having all digital network with them, I would say they use the tube system much more as when I went I have seen their main network breakdown or get stuck quite often, for my 4 hours of visit I saw it broke down like 10 times in various places, I guess not everyone can maintain a good network infrastructure at their disposal.

1:45 - you just *know* that Tom previously timed exactly how long it takes for that canister to get from the kitchen to his table, then coordinated with someone to send one at a precise moment, so that it would arrive at his table while he was at that exact point in the sentence. And that's one reason why Tom is THE BEST!!

That level of detail for/in a 3:49 Video. Awesome

@tinwatchman nah, he's timed longer speeches to weirder cues.

Tin Watchman you're probably haven't watched enough of his videos.

I'm guessing he coordinated with someone to manually cycle the gate above his table at just the right time

@tinwatchman Watch his video on Dasani and say that again.

That tube footage was something straight out of a movie intro. All that's missing is mysterious, upbeat music, and credits. Great stuff!

This cafe was in the news a couple of years back for the former owner's horrific bullying of his staff. Thankfully it's been sold and not under his control anymore, because it's a very cool cafe.

I remember a system in Siemens Germany for mail and small packages, it was very sophisticated, you dialled the ID on rings and the capsule found its way automatically to the intended destination.

I loved the video Tom. I especially loved the last bit with the camera in the pneumatic tubes. I was getting some Dr. Who vibes even started singing the theme 😄

These are really common in Australian supermarkets to move high denomination cash notes from tills into the secure store room. Protects staff from carrying the cash through the store.

You said you can find them in a 'few hospitals', but as someone who has worked in quite a few hospitals, I would say they are extremely common still in hospital settings. It's just simply the best way of getting bloods and other samples to the lab. The alternative is placing them in a box and having to ring the porters to come physically pick it up, or having a regular porter visit for higher-volume areas (such as ED).

I currently work as a Taxi dispatcher. About 30% of all calls are the hospitals requesdting samples transports.

The pneumatic tube thing might heavily depend on which part of the world you are referencing to^^

@Hans Woast Good point! My experience is in the UK

Many hospitals now have robots that just use the normal hallway to transport items around.

@Arthur Dickerson where are you at? Not common in my area

The hospital in my city uses pneumatic tubes for sending samples from units to laboratories, had an opoortunity to use it during practices, cool stuff

I worked in a place with one of these. They're so awesome!! Bring them back :D

This is amazing! I loved the GoPro's eye view of the tube journey.

As a coffee lover, I'd love to add this to my travel bucket list.

The tube travel was so cool. Good job, sir.

I worked as a cashier at Home Depot in Canada and they had pneumatic tubes between the vault and the cash registers. Anytime the till exceeded a certain amount cashiers had to make a deposit, at the end of the day as well all the money and checks etc went through the tubes. You could also request change if you were low on a certain denomination.

The Costco near where I live still uses pneumatic tubes for the same purpose.

The store i work for does that as well! One time €400 got stuck in those tubes lmao

Do you mind if I ask which Canadian city? It’d be fun to check out if I ever pass through

@KazisCollection I know the Reno Depot stores in Quebec used to all have a system like this, not sure if they still do today.

@KazisCollection we had them at a Home Depot in Ottawa

I lived in Christchurch for ten years (leaving four years ago) still visiting regularly, and yet I never knew this existed! Thanks for informing me Tom!

When I was little kid I always dreamed about going through the pneumatic tubes at the bank tellers and the various retail stores that still used them for things like checks. That video satisfied 4-year old me I think

Watching Tom travel further and further south nz and closer and closer to my town is both awesome and slightly disconcerting

That final shot of the camera going through the tubes made me grin from ear to ear! Gave me flashbacks to Portal 2 and travelling through the oversized tubes in that.

The movie theater I worked at used pneumo tubes to move the cash drops from the fishtank (ticket counter) to the office and send change back down. I think they're still there. The pharmacies, and some banks around here do drive throughs with multiple lanes and use tubes to send the pills or money to the customers.

When Tom said the local hospital still has a pneumatic tube system I thought he was about to tell us that the cafe has linked into it so they can send the doctors and nurses packed lunches. 🙂

I thought the same as well 😂

Me too..... And realistically, should try to make it happen .. Alas, complaints probably by the already established in hospice cafe' But still.. Imagine delivery to a select section..... Maybe only servicing the Maternity Ward... An Analogy... Mwhahahhaahha Hell, Even Stock up on Cigars !

They're on opposite sides of the CBD, unfortunately. Tubes would have to run over a kilometer.

@Hazel S Yeh.. "They're on opposite sides of the CBD, unfortunately. Tubes would have to run over a kilometer." And ? ;)

Yes I thought do too...maybe in future!

This is way cooler than robots serving things. It's weird that a century year old tech looks more futuristic than today's...

Saw these at a hospital in Germany, as well. The sealant at the pods are made from velcro by the way, just for those who want to try this at home.

Here (france) lots of malls and supermarkets still have pneumatic networks that the clerks will empty the cash register into (only notes), to send to the offices without having to physically walk the money across with armed guard. it's just super quick and convenient, and definitely not outdated, for some specific uses :)

End video was brilliant. Well done Tom & Crew!

I LOVE that video at the end. That's just insanely trippy watching that pipe system bend with no way to really "predict" it

The sound that the GoPro got going through the tubes is, unironically, incredibly pleasant to listen to, accompanied by the fascinating visuals of it's trip.

Kinda like an Euler's disc, isn't it?

Great video, very cool gopro footage! Just wanted to share that this is (or was) a quite common way to send money from the tills to the office in some polish cinemas and supermarkets in 2005-2010 Poland. I can't say how it looks now but I worked in few places using this system back in the days.

I remember the pneumatic system in our local Tesco. Fascinated me as a kid

One of the big supermarkets here in the south of England used to send cash from the tills up to the office via a tube system. Today with most transactions being electronic there is no longer the same need for moving physical notes. [For reference the supermarket I go to now has detachable cashboxes and the whole box gets carried from the till to the office.]

Please never stop making videos, lights up my day. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Woohoo - New Zealand! I love pneumatic-tube systems - they're very cool! I'll have to try this cafe when I'm next down in Christchurch!

I lived in Christchurch for 15 years and know C1 well. The original cafe was across the street and was destroyed in the earthquake of 2011. The present building was originally a post office built years ago with solid foundations, u can the original post office sign across the top of the building in the opening minute. It was literally the only building on the block left standing.

That is so nifty they created a new tube system from the ground up in a former postoffice. Sad to hear there was so much earthquake damage and loss

I figured the timing of the restaurant opening was not coincidental.

I live in Australia but have family there, I’ve probably driven past that place so many times when I visit hope I can remember for next time I got to Nz

Haha

Not laughijg at the misfortune

There's a bar next to my house in Austin called Tipsy Alchemist that uses similar pneumatic tubes to essentially mix drinks instead of using a shaker like most bartenders would. Worth a shot if you're a tourist

Most (if not all) hospitals in Australia have a pneumatic tube system that connects most wards to pathology, pharmacy etc.

Oh my god, the tube journey. It was worth it, Tom.

I've lived in Christchurch for most my life (about 20 years) and thought I'd see most the city but I'd never heard about this. Totally going to check it out in the near future!

A local hospital here has a pneumatic tube system for sending bloods for testing. I had a station outside the room I was in, and I kept going out and watching whenever someone sent something.

C1 is very popular with folks in the US Antarctic program, who pass through Christchurch on their way to work in Antarctica. I’ve spent many lovely afternoons there on my way to and from the ice. It’s also popular to bring some of C1’s excellent coffee down to the ice… there’s surely hundreds of kilos (if not more) of C1 coffee that has travelled to Antarctica.

If only they had a really long tube so they could send the coffee to Antarctica directly, eh?

I didn’t realise their coffee was so popular. I live in Christchurch so it’s convenient for me to buy it and I’ve been to the cafe before but I’ve never heard anyone mention their coffee before. I’m not a coffee drinker myself but I know a lot of people who are so I’m surprised they don’t use this coffee when it’s so popular in Antarctica.

Is the dream finally happening? A Tom Scott video from Antarctica? :)

Not sure if C1 sends a lot, maybe? But I know C4 Coffee Co. (Seperate to C1 but also in Christchurch) is a coffee roaster who send's many many kilos of coffee down to the Ice! (A lot of light roasts too!)

I can't believe I'm reading this! It's been years, but i carried this coffee down to the ice. Also that burger bus was nearby and a great place for a pint.

I work in the second largest hospital in Australia and we use pneumatic tubes to send medications, paperwork, samples and other things in tubes that are a slightly bigger than the ones in this video, you hear them rattling above you in certain areas, very handy system.

Many large American department stores like Gemco, and Sears had them in the 70s and 80s for large item pickup (furniture, TVs, etc). You would pay at the front, and the cashier would send the ticket to the loading dock using a pneumatic tube so it would be ready when you drove around back to load up.

Thank you Tom, always wanted to know what it looked like to fly through a vacuum tube… WUICK! Someone use the footage to hype up Hyperloop!

back in the eighties I worked in a warehouse inputting customers orders. I then printed them off and sent them through to the warehouse in a pneumatic tube system. it was great, and fun!!

I remember a sports shop in my city has these - it was good seeing shoe boxes flying up, down and around then shop in the tubes

The fact that locals still go there, not for the gimmick, but the food speaks volumes.

Went there today, sat at that exact table, food was good and the cafe has so many cool features

I loved it that you sent the go-pro through the tube!

My local IKEA (Nottingham) has one of these pneumatic systems across the till and customer service areas for dealing with cash (I assume), not sure if this is true of all stores or if it’s just a one off. I always watch for flying pods when I go but I’ve only ever seen it happen once!