Cichlidiot wrote:

> Never assume with the US Postal System. This may be less a Slackware
> thing and more a postal system thing. It's been increasingly odd as of
> late. For example, my mother lives 300 miles south directly on a major
> interstate, yet her mail to me first gets sent west on a tiny state
> highway, then postmarked (on a different day than she sent it too,
> which is causing a lot of anger from the rebate front since the post
> office silently stopped postmarking on the day someone dropped stuff
> in the mail for certain towns), then sent southeast to LA, then sent
> north to me... on the SAME interstate. The mail makes a totally
> unnecessary couple hundred miles side trip for some strange reason,
> and this has only started up recently. It used to just go straight up
> the interstate.

I was making no assumptions, but your postal service seems to be
learning from ours, If you live in the next town which is eight miles
away and has a Norwich Postcode, NR, then your mail is likely to go to
Peterborough to be sorted and come back to be delivered to the same
town. Ours is in the Postcode for Ipswich IP, and I think gets sorted
in Ipswich and comes back to be delivered in the same town, a 70 mile
round trip, (they used to sort the local mail at the post office and
then deliver it the same day). But our Christmas mail I understand,
went to Leeds in Yorkshire. There you are, geography lessons for your
children, if you have and atlas that shows places like Southwold, (the
next town), Halesworth, where I live, Ipswich, Norwich and Leeds.
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