No wonder they call it "Snail Mail".
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It's official: mail is slow as snails
Thu Jan 24, 11:06 AM ET
It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland.
An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on
December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it
even faster to his home than the letter.
Daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294
hours for the letter to arrive at his home. He also said the distance
between his home and the sender was 11.1 kilometers.
Given the distance and the time, the speed of the letter was 0.03775
kilometers per hour. Szybalski calculated that a garden snail travels at
around 0.048 kilometers per hour.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080124/od_nm/mail_dc
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