wrote in message oups.com...
San Diego enjoys the nation's highest prices for gasoline and
electricity. Now we appear to be going for the record in pokiest mail
delivery.

Yesterday's mail (Saturday, 4 Aug 2007) included letters from Port
Angeles, Washington, and Riddells Creek, Australia. Both were post-
marked 30 July.

Odds are, most modern-day Americans won't see anything unusual in a
letter taking six days to travel 1,300 miles at a cost of nearly half
a dollar. But when I was a kid in it took about six days for a letter
from my aunt in New York to arrive in San Francisco. Cost three cents
and traveled by train.

By accepting incompetence we become a party to it. "You're doing a
heck of a job, Brownie."

-R.S.Hoover


Yup, folks accept crappy cell phone performance and pay premium for the privilege of dropped connections and limited
coverage. I guess it is better that the old cell phones, but you used to be able to find a pay phone and it would
work...