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joquarky
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Back in the 80s and 90s rhey would advertise products on TV with "6 to 8 weeks for delivery".
Now I wonder if they did this to batch up a manufacturing run once enough orders were received.
james_marks
6 months ago
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Totally. You also get batch efficiencies shipping 10k orders in a day vs dribbling them out over weeks, and you can use sub-standard shipping methods that are cheaper because… the carriers themselves are also batching the work.
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Now I wonder if they did this to batch up a manufacturing run once enough orders were received.