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Dates: during 1990-1999
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All of the crates arrive at a central point where bar codes are matched with order numbers to determine who gets what. Your three items end up in a 3-ft.-wide chute--one of several thousand--and are placed into a cardboard box with a new bar code that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

5 Any gifts you've chosen are wrapped by hand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Amazon trains an elite group of gift wrappers to "make it look like Mom's." Each worker processes 30 packages an hour (those who fail are reassigned to other jobs). For its busiest season yet, Amazon's warehouses are stocked with 4.4 million yards of ribbon and 7.8 million sq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The McDonough plant was designed to ship as many as 20,000 pieces a day. About 60% of orders are shipped via the U.S. Postal Service; nearly everything else goes through United Parcel Service. Both have large facilities within 10 miles of the warehouse. Products that are usually big or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Welcome to the eBay revolution. Auction sites are one of the hottest corners of cyberspace right now. Online bidders are eagerly competing for new ovens ubid.com and used microscopes going-going-sold.com) There are service auctions, where lawyers can underbid one another for assignments to register patents elance.com) and reverse auctions, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: The Attic of e | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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