Those missing features are symptoms of B&N's bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis.
Delivery options include email, U.S. mail, express shipping (at additional cost), or in-person pickup.
As early as 2007, before the Navy awarded the contract to build the ship, the GAO said that there "were key risks in the program that would impair the Navy's ability to deliver [the first ship] at cost, on time and with its planned capabilities". The program consists of three nuclear-powered ships designed to serve as successors to the Nimitz-class carriers.
Shipping at Amazon costs about 4 percent of sales, and Amazon loses money on it because it offers marketing benefits, said Aaron Kessler, an e-commerce analyst at the research firm ThinkEquity.
Mr Stopford points out that last year shipping firms ordered new ships at a cost of $80 billion.
A nutty British official in charge of Malta put Sabbath observance ahead of unloading ships, at terrible cost.
Charging a mile across the Marathon plain, Miltiades' forces engaged the Persian infantry, killing some 6,400 men (and capturing 7 ships) at a cost of 192 Athenian dead.
"We saw air fresheners as products we could ship at low cost to America," said Junwu Liu, the chairman of TongDa and the president of Oscar Home Care.
And at least initially, the documents can be had only by either picking them up here, in remote Juneau — a city accessible only by plane or boat — or having them shipped, at considerable cost, to newsrooms across the country.
James C. Florio, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., entrepreneur, believes, for example, that he can save the city $1 billion over 20 years by building three 900-foot semisubmersible ships, at a cost of $100 million apiece.
The House Government Operations Committee found that between 1982 and 1984, at least 260 State Department and United States Information Agency employees and their dependents traveled by ship at a cost of $556,232, or more than three times greater than air fare.
