On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:23:30AM +0000, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:31:48 +0000 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Judging from what friends say about the US' mail system and what I know > > of other systems, the US' mail system is dreadful compared to that of > > many other first-world countries. > > So, it's better than ours, then? :)
I don't find ours to be that bad - mail usually arrives within 2-3 days. It's possible to send off a postal order for some electronic components on Monday and have the bits on Wednesday, failing that Thursday; any longer delays are more likely to be due to the supplier of the bits than the PO. There is something of a problem with the way it all grinds to a halt at weekends, but then everything grinds to a halt at weekends. The biggest difficulty I have with the postal service is living in a place with a shared letterbox. Stuff gets pinched. The workaround is to have a radio transmitter attached to the flap of the letterbox and a receiver in my room which beeps when the post arrives, so I can go and collect it straightaway before anyone gets a chance to pinch it. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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