On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, cdb wrote:

*>You forgot about the time continuum difference involving the chord
*>dissected by the radii of the earths surface.
*>
*>I get some magazines from the Us and UK that are posted by a Dutch
*>postal company

The time depends on the number of mailhops, not on distance. Also there is
the fate factor.

Peter

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