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Mail is slow as snails

A Polish IT worker who received a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as special priority delivery, 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 alos worked out the distance between his home and the sender, placing it at 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.

The Polish postal service in question is yet to comment on the case.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .