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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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A GOOD Christmas story
From this morn's paper:
Delivering a 'miracle' by mistake Gift glitch - 79 extra Hood River gourmet baskets arrive at a Maine cancer center Saturday, December 22, 2007RYAN KNUTSON The Oregonian Staff The gifts, 80 in all, started piling up quickly at the cancer treatment center in Maine. Doctors, nurses and patients puzzled at the boxes, some 3 feet high, each containing a gourmet basket all addressed to one person. Labels said they came from The Fruit Company in Hood River. A quick call solved the mystery. What was intended as one patient's gift to a doctor turned into a treat for dozens and dozens of cancer patients because of a labeling and shipping error a continent away. The baskets, stuffed with chocolate, cookies or seasonal fruit, cost an average of $76. Before they are assembled, a machine slaps them with a label that includes a name and address. But Tuesday afternoon, a glitch caused the machine to spit out 80 labels addressed to Dr. Tracey Weisberg at the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine in Portland, Maine. She was only supposed to get one. "We're putting out 130,000 gifts a year all across the country, and the only ones we had a problem with were those 80," company owner Scott Webster said Friday. "They've got angels over there or something." The inadvertent gift took more than one labeling glitch. The FedEx truck was running late Tuesday, and the delivery man didn't have time to scan all the packages as they were loaded, which is the normal procedure, Webster said. If he had, the error would have been noticed and corrected. Once he learned where the baskets ended up, Webster told them Merry Christmas -- and let them keep the shipment. The gift cost his company $7,000 to make 79 more baskets and ship them overnight to intended customers. "If they had to go someplace, it was a good pick," Weisberg said. "I guess you could call it a Christmas miracle . . . it made a lot of people laugh who don't have much to laugh about." Ryan Knutson: 503-221-8100; ryanknutson@news.oregonian.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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12-22-2007, 11:10 AM
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Living in Reality
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 5,671
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 Awesome! Love it. Incredible that a glitch not only incurred at the plant, but a second one that happened at Fedex. Love the owner's spirit too. God bless him. |
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12-22-2007, 11:19 AM
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