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 Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/05/29 11:39 
beavis wrote: 
> In article <43ecd6d8.10409812@news-server.houston.rr.com>, Bob 
> <spam@uce.gov> wrote: 
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>>>I've sent two DVDs back in the SAME ENVELOPE, and had their 
>>>"Received" status split by a couple of *days*.  How can that be if 
>>>they're not playing games with the arrival dates? 
>> 
>>One disk could have been local and the other could have been 
>>non-local. It would take a little longer for the non-local disc to be 
>>logged in. 
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>  
> Nope.  They both came from, and went back to, the same distribution 
> center (Albany, NY).   Besides, how would they know until the scanned 
> the barcode, thus logging the movie in as "Received"? 
 
Think you just answered your question: 
Barcodes don't scan themselves, and your disk wasn't the only one in the  
mailbox. 
 
Derek Janssen (be kind to your minimum-wage employees!) 
ejanss@comcast.net
 
  
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