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Yeah, the trick was to order the thing, then try to forget about it. Then one day, you come home from school, and your mom says, “Something came in the mail for you,” and you get really excited.
You open it up, and it is either smaller, crappier, or completely different from the picture/description, and you are monumentally disappointed. Seldom did you open it and say “That’s COOL!” Usually it was “That’s it?”
Oh, and it ALWAYS took WAY longer than 6 weeks. 3 months, minimum. I remember getting parchments copies of America’s Founding Documents (they smelled really weird), and by the time they arrived, I had legitimately forgotten I’d ordered them. They must have arrived 9 months later. My mom told me something came, and handed me a tube, and I had no idea what it could be, until I opened it.
Do you think they were made domestically and just had dogshit logistics, or overseas and also had terrible logistics?
It was the olden days, the 60s, EVERYTHING just took longer, all of it done by hand, no Internet, computers, robots, automation, printers, etc. Every item needed lots of handling, stuffing in a package, making and sticking a label, etc.
Ah, fair!
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