[Groop] US Mail-An Institutional Grooism

[Tim Collins]

>>>If I had mailed across town, it would probably get there sometime
 next 
month. <<
>There was a SF short story about this type of situation many years
 ago.... 
>Involving the Postal Service, space warps (or something) and mail
 to/from 
>various points, with the most distant arriving soonest. The main
 character finally 
>sent a letter addressed to the other side of the galaxy... mailed it in
 the 
>morning, and got a reply in the afternoon mail....

I remember reading that story in an old issue of Analog, as I recall the reply was waiting on his deck after he drop the letter in a mailchute down the hall from his office.

Tim C

 

       
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