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