Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause for October 03, 2022

No, that’s exactly what happens. The question is, what if the teleporter accidentally forgets to destroy the original.

Very old SF story. Wife claims husband is dead, gets his stuff.

Star Trek uses transporters because the SFX for a shuttlecraft was too time consuming and too expensive for the budget of TOS in the 1960s.

Or you are the one transported to the spider’s web.

Still beats getting on an airplane.

Didn’t I read that they were testing to see if teleportation was worth pursuing as a goal of modern transportation methodology and they decided that the only way it could possibly work was exactly as this strip articulates?

This is close to the premise of the Thomas M. Disch novel “Echo Round His Bones,” in which a version of the person who teleported is left behind at the origin point in a phantom state.

Also used heavily in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary.