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TalonJasra discovered 6 months ago- Sweet, seems snails are faster than "snail" mail
- feardorcha rated 4 months ago
- WARSAW (Reuters) - It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland. An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. Daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294 hours for the letter to arrive at his home. He also said the distance between his home and the sender was 11.1 kilometers. Given the distance and the time, the speed of the letter was 0.03775 kilometers per hour. Szybalski calculated that a garden snail travels at around 0.048 kilometers per hour. (Writing by Karolina Slowikowska; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia) Methinks he forgot to factor in the ferry crossings. Or was it calculated as the crow flies?
- Thamus rated 5 months ago
- Boy, have you got snail in your mail It's official - "snail mail" really does travel at the pace of a snail. No - actually, it's even worse. It's slower. A Polish IT worker who received a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. Quote: "The daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294 hours for the letter to arrive at his home. He also said the distance between his home and the sender was 11.1 kilometers." Given the distance and the time, the speed of the letter was 0.03775 kilometers per hour. Szybalski calculated that a garden snail travels at around 0.048 kilometers per hour.
