Actually, it's all very simple.  People are usually used to moving
things according to supply and demand across space, but recent
innovations have allowed us to move things across time as well.  Much
more efficient.

Take circuit cellar for example.  They didn't have any dev boards  in
stock for you this month, so they're putting delivery off till next
month.  They know, however, that time is of the essence, so they sent
the boards back in time so that you'd get them shortly after the order.
This way they can make thousands once  a year, and then send them
backwards at appropiate points, instead of making a thousand in the
beginning and then storing them and hoping the orders come in.  In their
economy, space is more important than time, so they trade a little of
one for a little of the other.

Now be careful.  If you were to desolder the components, and sell them
back to CC to make the boards with you'd create a time loop.  Eventually
you'd find yourself like Bill Murray in Groundhogs's day reliving the
day of delivery over and over again, desoldering the same caps and
mailing them back to CC.

As for the ISP, I suspect they are simply trying to make the online
experience for file traders (pirates in 1799) and modern online game
players (fantasy) more realistic.  But the bandwidth is pretty small.

-Adam

cdb wrote:

>According to Optus my ISP the date is 30/12/1799, thought the headers
>are correct.
>
>According to Circuit Cellar post room, the postal date on the
>development board I've just received tells me it was posted on the
>22/11/2003.
>
>That US post office is one damn efficient machine, parcels are
>quicker from there than the upto 10 days from Sydney/Melbourne to
>Queensland.
>
>Henceforth I'm sticking to the pre Raphaelite calender.
>
>Colin
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