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- From: smv@apollo.hp.com (Steve Valentine)
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- Subject: Re: Strange packaging technique
- Message-ID: <Bu0KCz.9vx@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:53:22 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep2.234048.18002@u.washington.edu> <BtzApG.1o1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <BtzApG.1o1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> gordon@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca (Gordon R. Strachan) writes:
- >The one I always like is the packing lists that list everything in the box
- >including the packing list itself! It even has its own HP part number. HP
- >paper work, you gotta love it! :-)
-
- I recently received several boxes of HP-UX manuals.
- The packing lists that came with each weren't self-referential,
- and didn't list the bubble wrap and/or plastic peanuts enclosed,
- but they did list the boxes!
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- Component Part Description
- 9211-6313 CARTON, CORRUGATED, SHIPPING
- ...
-
- Recycling note:
- This box also makes a good cheap monitor stand. :-)
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- Steve Valentine - smv@apollo.hp.com
- Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Systems Division, Chelmsford, MA
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