RE: [TCLUG:15037] Station Wagon Full of Tapes

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

The thing is, nor was noone else.  The grounding was because they use a
huge computer down there to calculate how the plane should fly so they can
keep good profits. :)

See, I bet Delta and United were doing excellent :)

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, LaBerge, Matthew wrote:

> It's sorta nice at UPS we have our own airports (we have one of the largest
> airlines in the world) so we weren't affected by that whole Northwest
> airport grounding deal.
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	nryberg@uspsoig.gov [mailto:nryberg@uspsoig.gov] 
> Sent:	Thursday, March 23, 2000 9:04 AM
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> Subject:	RE: [TCLUG:15037] Station Wagon Full of Tapes
> 
> Don't forget to factor latency for wandering backhoes...  
> 
> Suppose a backhoe cut the fiber line feeding the FedEx HQ, and they couldn't
> properly route their packages!
> 
> - Nick
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[msg(SuperQ)] what about seven?
[SuperQ] not my kind of movie
[SuperQ] I don't like that crap
[SuperQ] it's a horror flic
[SuperQ] I work on NT
[SuperQ] I don't need any more horror in my life