You deliver them to the church or school, where they will be boxed, dispatched to a depot, loaded into a container, trucked to a port, loaded onto a boat, shipped to Haiti, unloaded, sorted, and somehow distributed who knows how many weeks from now.

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Factories should be going at full tilt, and container ships are normally loaded to the gills.

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The other machine loaded shattered pieces of furniture and construction material into a huge waste container.

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Mine went from shipping container to functional machine in under four minutes, including fitting a loaded battery for eight-plus hours of work, initial registration, and access to an online word processing site.

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