Tim N9PUZ wrote:
> The world's Postal services are a marvel. I can get packages to some
> European countries quicker than I can get them to a couple of US
> destinations.

Hmm.  My impression is that the US postal system is really very decent.  For
under $10 I can get a PIC programmer from Massachusetts to an obscure
outpost in central Alaska in two days (yes, this has happened).  But try
getting something a few hundred miles north of here into Canada and it costs
twice as much and takes 4 times as long.  I don't know what they do up
there, but even dogsled would be faster.

I once got a letter from someone in southern Ontario, and noticed it has a
US stamp on it postmarked in Buffalo NY.  Out of curiosity I asked him about
it, and he said they pay a courrier company to drive mail bound for the US
over the border and dump it at the Buffalo post office.  This was cheaper
and quicker than mailing it from a Canadian post office.


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