Comments on: Replacing Efficiency with Reliability https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/replacing-efficiency-with-reliability/2011/04/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Lori https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/replacing-efficiency-with-reliability/2011/04/06/comment-page-1#comment-482605 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:44:52 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=15064#comment-482605 Just today I placed an order over at Abe Books, for two copies of a book. It would have been neat to have the capability to have two shipping addresses for one order, but nobody thinks of everything, at least beforehand. There was a text area for ‘instructions to seller.’ I was tempted to try that route, but figured that would trigger a cascade of events like being called on the phone by the seller, questions about the machine-parseability of the address typed into the text area, wondering whether adjustments of shipping charges would have to be made and OK’d. Since the intended recipient is local, I think I’ll just hand deliver it. A ‘consultant’ might think up something like ‘why not relate “ship to” to “items” rather than to “orders,”‘ but would that also trip up some customers? We might never know.

Perhaps a reduce-reuse-recycle culture can alleviate some of the inefficiency of reliability. A close cousin of reliability is durability.

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