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- From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: PC Connection, was: Re: Mail Order Hate Letter
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.214900.16603@tc.fluke.COM>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:49:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: tc.1992Sep10.214900.16603
- References: <1992Aug30.192913.25064@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <11300025@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
- Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co. /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
- Lines: 26
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- In <11300025@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes:
-
- >In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK) writes:
- > What's really amazing is that they claim that you'll get next day
- >delivery (for those areas that support it) if you place your order by
- >3AM EST! If I read their ad correctly, this means that, if I call by 12
- >midnight west coast time, I'll still get my package the very next day.
- >
- > I haven't had the guts to see if this is really true, though.
-
- I have. It worked twice when I called at 11:30 PM -- had it by the
- afternoon. Two other times it showed up the day after, but I have a strong
- suspicion that this is due to the morass which is our mail room.
-
- "Besides, my first `real' book wasn't LOVE IN THE
- TIME OF CHOLERA, either, but that doesn't mean I
- should be satisfied reading CURIOUS GEORGE at the
- age of 35 just because I enjoyed it when I was
- five."
- -- Jerry Boyajian
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- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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