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Posted By: J Levine

There was a great old science fiction story about the post office and I forget the author but the gist of it is this...

A man mails a letter to a business across the street and he wonders why it takes 8 months to get there. He then notices that when he mails a letter across town it only took 6 months to get there...in his frustration he tries an experiment...he mails six identical letters asking for a response to six people in different locations: across the street, across the city, across the country, different continent, opposite side of the world and Alpha Centauri...the times it takes the response to arrive was dependent on distance and the shorter the distance the longer the response time...the Alpha Centauri letter takes 4 days response time where the one across the street again takes nearly 8 months...his conclusion was that the USPS must be the most ineffecient and effecient organization in the world.

Joshua

PS Apology to Leon but I have been way off topic lately.