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vanishedone commented on the word empty-boxing
According to a comment here, this 'refers to a (possibly apocryphal) story of IBM sending a customer an empty tape box, then explaining when it arrived that it must have been screwed up in the shipping department. This bought the necessary time for the software to be completed.'
June 6, 2009