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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 11:46:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeremy McLeod <jeremym@chroot.net>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005101145410.5158-100000@pug.chroot.net>
In-Reply-To: <E12pYe6-000JIg-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>

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On May 10, 2000, at 16:43, Tony Finch spewed forth:

> Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> wrote:
> >
> >I sent two letters on the same day, from the same post office here in
> >Montreal, Canada. I sent one letter express, one letter normal mail.
> >
> >Express mail was destined for New Jersey US, while the normal mail was
> >destined for the UK, (England) - The normal mail letter to the Uk took
> >3 days to arrive at it's location. The express mail to the US took just
> >over one week. Strange, no?
> 
> Not really :-) Royal Mail is rather swifter getting mail to its
> destination than the US Mail. (It's quicker mailing US->UK than
> UK->US for this reason.)

possibly because the UK has less than a third the population of the US,
and thus less mail, and _considerably_ less landmass to cover delivering
mail.

-jeremy



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