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28 Days for delivery

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It really doesn't seem that long ago, that at the bottom of every mail-order advert, you would have in the small print the words "28 days for delivery". I remember ordering a small rubber spider and cockroach from my Scream horror comic, and that 28 days felt like a lifetime! Every morning I would run downstairs and eagerly await the post mans visit, but the rubber insects would not arrive. When they did, it would be one of the greatest and happiest moments in my life. It was the same for items ordered from my mail - order joke catalogue, and once I got a bit older I had to wait a small eternity for my photographs to be developed. Now, being in the business of mail - order ourselves, the same questions keep coming to mind - "Why?!! - Why specifically 28 Days? Why did they keep us waiting so long?" What were they doing? OK, so we had to rely on snail-mail to deliver our order and our cheque, and perhaps they wanted to make sure the cheque cleared, but even then,