In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages

Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by lb1lf on Saturday December 23, 2017 @06:25PM (#15996909)

Whether it is around your dinner table or in the back of a UPS truck, Christmas is essentially a DoS attack.

Merry Christmas, by the way - I just noticed it is after midnight local time, and December 24th!

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Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by mercutio2 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:06AM (#15998404)

And you are presumably in continental Europe, where Christmas is celebrated on the 24th! Of course in the USA, it’s celebrated on the 25th.

One of those things that severely confuses people that aren’t aware of it.

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Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by lb1lf on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:02AM (#15998547)

That I am - well, on the outskirts of it, in what Pliny the elder referred to as Ultima Thule. (Pliny was an amateur - there's still plenty of land to the north; perhaps that counts as Ultima non plus ultra Thule or something?)

Anyway, adding to the confusion are the Russian orthodox church - they celebrate Christmas January 7th, as they haven't gotten around to adopting the Gregorian calendar just yet.

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Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by chrisbennet on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:26AM (#16004175)

I didn't know that! Merry Christmas!

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