Snail Mail

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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."


I would have to put them right up there with the fast food industry. If you
get something that is fresh and hot, you can bet your butt they screwed the
order up.

I'm beginning to agree with George Carlin, "No one should eat anything
that's served out a window, unless they're a seagull."