Some tasks take a bit of manual effort, such as duplicating the floppy disksand applying labels, burning optical discs, and printing and punching manuals. These orders are the ones that get delayed. The download-only orders should get processed much more quickly.
We now have this magical paper called 3-hole punch and modern laser printers put up to 35+ pages a minute, as for "optical" discs, cd's burn at 24X speed.