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Now that we're in the dog days of city summer, it seems like New Yorkers are finally taking advantage of the relatively new convenience of same-day delivery. In a recent profile of an eBay Now courier, a girl in Brooklyn ordered nail polish for same-day delivery. It took the courier "22 minutes of walking; 24 minutes of in-store browsing; two calls to the customer; and assistance from four Kmart employees," all for a bottle of polish that doesn't even cost seven bucks. [Racked]