Thursday, October 4, 2007

USA is Amazing

Just a real quick thought. If you have to mail a letter to someone in Indiana and you happen to live in Illinois when might you expect it to arrive? I would personally expect it to arrive in three or four days at the latest. I would have no doubt of this either. It would make it in plenty of time. Now let's say you wanted to mail a letter to someone in Indiana from the UK, when might you expect it to arrive? I would say 1-2 weeks would be a reasonable timeline. Now remember you are mailing from a socialist country where government employees can go on strike. Therefore I have no idea when any of my mail will arrive in the USA. This country literally has a mail strike going on. I have mail that must arrive by the first Monday after the first Sunday in November (those who care about there country know what I am talking about), yet I have no guarantee because a bunch of nuts are on strike. I am so grateful to be living in the good ole US of A. By the way, my German roommate insisted on me copying him some of my patriotic music for him. He said nobody cares that much in Germany about their own country and he just loves the music. It has been nice to hear American music being played in my flat.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad you have the material to mail by the first Monday after the first Sunday in November! I suppose you could always mail it via UPS or FedEx if need be - although probably a costly venture.

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