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In article <B5E9517D.28AE8%mike@dentdelion.com>, Mike Nowak 
<mike@dentdelion.com> wrote:

> in article mwron-1509001553430001@c243286-a.bcreek1.mi.home.com, MWRon at
> mwron@metrowerks.com wrote on 9/15/00 3:53 PM:
> 
> > For those that have pre-ordered you should be receiving it within 3 
> > weeks
> > in most countries.  Some localized versions will take longer
> 
> Why will it take 3 weeks? When I ordered it over the phone in August, the
> fellow said I would have it in about 5 days after it shipped.
> 
"Within three weeks" is not inconsistent with something like "most will 
have it within 5 days."  There is *always* a long tail of delayed 
deliveries in these mass shipments.  The carrier uses the boxes as wheel 
chocks, or whatever.  Customs delays one sack out of 10, etc.

Three weeks gets them to the part of the tail in which it is rather 
likely that a package was lost rather than delayed, and needs to be 
dealt with.  And at the same time, three weeks gets them to the part of 
the tail in which the mis-addressed ones have returned and been sorted 
out.

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews@scandaroon.com