Here, he was taught how to organize the shelves and process new orders that came to the library.

"We process orders every 15 minutes, so that's the longest it would take to send e-mail to the recipient."

He processed orders for a local company that installed satellite television, but was going back to school and becoming a carpenter's apprentice, according to his relatives.

The exchange is also upgrading the system that processes orders placed prior to the opening and bulk orders during the day.

There was no need for the army of clerks processing orders for individual parts as in the past.

Two years ago, Overstock.com's employees were working nights and weekends processing orders.

The Big Board already uses computers to process smaller orders, which represent about half of all the shares traded on the exchange.

The site was processing orders at a snail's pace on Tuesday, and the company blamed surging holiday traffic.

According to news outlets, the airline was still processing orders and taking payments for flights the very night before they claimed bankruptcy.

The company processes orders from customers through their web site, within which there is significant homogeneity.