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Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by PeterisP on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:28PM (#15997736)
The free market way that the costs (assuming they're significant) would be properly reflected in prices and cause some of the people to shift their purchasing/deliveries/whatever to another time.

Currently, there's no meaningful economic pressure to do your christmas shopping months in advance; so that's probably an indicator that the infrastructure is manageable and no major changes are really needed.

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Re:In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliv... by bitmage on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:27AM (#16000117)
There is a negative incentive as well. Most return policies are thirty days, so if you shop months early you have no recourse should a gift be found to be defective at Christmas.
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