On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: >Mike Reinehr schrieb: >>No, you've got that just backwards. All email is being delivered to a >>server located in your local post office, where it is printed. This >>printed copy is then delivered to the recipients local post office by 25 >>year old mule-back, tramp steamer, etc. Upon being delivered, it is then >>scanned and, finally, emailed to it's ultimate destination. The USPS has >>to justify all that fancy sorting & delivery equipment. Not to mention >>all those high priced managers. > >At least one of those high priced US Postal officers has proven to be >quite fast: Lance Armstrong.
Fast for a cyclist, but slow compared to the rest of the world. The USPS is fast compared to say Pony Express. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need in in the others. -- Ray Simard _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
