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C&WJ have proven themselves 5% worthy of the term “efficient”.  Some may beg to differ.

That was just an aside, quite some time ago I came across this Reuter’s article.  They have these odd “Oddly enough” articles.  Ha! How fitting. I guess the article spoke to my fear, or rather mistrust of the mail – SNAIL MAIL as we know it.

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)