@IsaacMoses @MonicaCellio I'll check that. Another suggestion: we pay in shekels, and you transfer the equivalent in dollars to our American bank account.

Staples is all "Oh, did you say 65 thousand copies? I thought it was 65 hundred copies. Yeah, that's not going to be done today. It'll be ready on Friday night. Sorry!" So, I'm going to try to pick it up on Saturday night between Tzeit (8:36) and store closing (9:00). If it keeps them late a few minutes while I load, oh well; it's due to their miscalculation. This should have little to no impact on when the shipments go out, since I wouldn't have started working on that until after Shabbat.

@IsaacMoses blink What's a little order-of-magnitude error between friends, eh? Oops.

@MonicaCellio I have a feeling that they don't get orders this big every day. She apologized multiple times.

@Scimonster oh, you have an American bank account? That would presumably be less expensive to send to. :-) If the copy place can take a US credit card I'm happy to do that.

@IsaacMoses probably not. I was actually surprised that they ended up having the best price; I would have figured them as aiming for the small-batches market and not having much in the way of volume discounts. So it turns out they do but they don't get much of this. :-)

@MonicaCellio At least not at this particular store. There's some complicated process flow between the website, the store, and the hub where the mass-printing is getting done. I'm interacting directly with an individual in the store who seems to have overall responsibility for the order, which I'm happy about, even though she made a mistake.

@IsaacMoses It may be worth calling them at 630 on friday to see if it's done a few hours early and driving over then (having cooked and showered etc. earlier).

@IsaacMoses yeah, mistakes happen but she apologized and the only harm it ended up doing was to complicate your motzei Shabbat. It could have been worse.

@DoubleAA Good point. I'll do what I can to pre-facilitate that maneuver and see if it'll work out. I have constraints unrelated to Halacha, too, to plan around.

I hadn't considered the off-site-printing angle -- that the store you're picking up from isn't where the work is being done. That makes more sense.

@IsaacMoses I thought it was 1400 copies. What's 65000?

1400 * 47 = 65800. They think in terms of total pages printed when estimating how long a job will take.

According to this (2010), the fastest copy machine in the world does 150 copies / minute. With that machine, printing our job would take more than 7 hours of nonstop printing.

So the order-of-magnitude difference here is between "about an hour" and "about all day."

I wonder whether jobs like this tend to get done on a single printer for as long as it takes or broken into smaller (parallel) runs. Which I guess is really a question about peak vs. sustained load and how much of the time they have machines sitting idle.

@MonicaCellio also how many machines they have, and what workflow they're accustomed to.