It's easy to have a personalised Christmas but beware of the quality
Robin Gibson unwraps the festive gifting options for digital racefans
Definitely plenty of time left. Almost two weeks – and last time I ordered anything from Amazon it arrived literally seconds later. It might even have been quicker.
The web has had the effect of returning us to the not-quite-believable era, described in ancient novels, when you could post a letter in the morning to be received the same afternoon.
Okay, those old letters were handled by postal workers with cushy jobs and final salary pensions, not robots in a fulfilment (the irony) centre. So it's not quite the same. But it's real.
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Published on 22 December 2017inFeatures
Last updated 12:00, 22 December 2017
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