Airline baggage used to be a good deal. Size limit on carry-on, weight limit on checked. Sending a tech with parts on a plane was often much cheaper than rush shipping.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I often took the "noon balloon" out of San Jose with a Samsonite case loaded with 6 10.5" reels of tape--and the reverse course as well. Something about bandwidth?
Well, Tannenbaum's adage was about a STATION WAGON "hurtling" down the highway, so comparing airflight introduces other variables. :-)
