Two Ravens (two-ravens@opera$mail.com) writes:
> For those interested in the time it takes Subscription Sets to get to us
> in Europe, mine arrived this morning.
>
> I can never work out though, why Slackware comes to England via France,
> even though I live in what some may describe as a rural backwater, I am
> aware that aeroplanes fly between London and the USA, and I've even
> been to Glasgow Airport to meet people coming home from Turkey and seen
> Aeroplanes that are carrying passengers from the USA. why do the French
> get my Slackware before sending it on to me.

I've gotten datasheets and such from semiconductor manufacturers, and
they've been mailed from Europe, even though I'm in Canada and the companies
were in the US. I get the impression they use a mailing company in
Europe to handle the rest of the world, and never mind that it probably
is simpler to send it directly to Canada.

So perhaps there is a mailing company in France, with the CDROMs sent
to them in bulk via the cheapest shipping route, and once there they
are packaged and mailed out. Maybe this results in them arriving faster,
and without a high shipping cost.

But I know nothing of whether this is really the case, and maybe it's
just a silly oddity.

Michael