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[Bob Bradlee]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:34:47 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:

> I had a seller just this spring post a drawing tube
>> containing a rare plate of the first aerial photo ever taken of Stonehenge sent by ship !
>> I took about 2 months to get here @%$#^.......
>> For about a fiver (or about half that, if your  think Sterling) one can have a Kilo of near
>> instant gratification delivered to the door in about two days with electronic tracking.
>>
>A friend of mine last year sent a large package of christmas presents
>home to Australia. He paid £60 for postage, the guy in the Post Office
>ticked the wrong box and it went the slow way.
>It was posted in November and arrived in May. At least by then they
>assumed it was lost and give him £400 compensation.  I don't think it
>was worth the grief his mother gave him for "Forgetting about us, now
>you live over there etc."

At least he was vindicated when it arrived many months later.

>Dan

>Dan