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.
--
Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:44:29 +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:27:32 +0000, Two Ravens wrote:
>> For those interested in the time it takes Subscription Sets to get to us
>> in Europe, mine arrived this morning.
>
> It also arrived over here in The Netherlands this morning.

If anyone is awaiting their Slackware subscription via APO mail
(US military mail system) the wait may not be too much longer. Mine
arrived to me in Egypt today.

>> I can never work out though, why Slackware comes to England via France,
>
> Mine also arrived via France.
>
Mine is postmarked 22 February from Brentwood, CA.

Brad

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:27:32 +0000, Two Ravens wrote:
> 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.


AFAIk, it depends on agreements between carriers.


--
greymaus
97.025% of statistics are wrong

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:54:29 +0000, Two Ravens wrote:

> Cichlidiot wrote:
>
>> Never assume with the US Postal System.

> I was making no assumptions, but your postal service seems to be
> learning from ours,

You guys ain't got it so bad. I lived for a while in a large African city
where it once took 18 days for a letter to make it from the post office to
my flat -- 300 meters away! But it did make it.