# To the Post Oriface - You're trying to piss off one of your defenders... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 25, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246 "2006-05-25T22:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/21 "2006-05-26T22:36:58Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > . . .nor to, say, Post Canada which seems to hire only retired, arthritic snails for mail delivery - it should not take over a week for mail to go from Rochester, NY to Toronto, ON - and they charge more for a first class letter, too. I read that as “_retarded_ arthritic snails,” and all I could think was, “Wow, those poor snails!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/22 "2006-05-27T00:22:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > My best (worst) mail delivery story involves a package I was going to mail from New Jersey to London on Wednesday, September 12, 2001. I finally got it mailed a week later on Wednesday, September 19, 2001. > > It got to London on January 23, 2002. Well, what do you expect? The whole world changed that day. One of those changes was obviously the slowing of time! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/23 "2006-05-27T05:08:22Z")
> [@Martini Enfield](#): > > it astounds me today when I get letters and parcels from friends and family in NZ, postmarked only a few days before it arrived… I on the other hand regularly get mail from friends in Wellington that takes 10 days to arrive, so it can just be the luck of the draw. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/24 "2006-05-27T05:11:44Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I on the other hand regularly get mail from friends in Wellington that takes 10 days to arrive, so it can just be the luck of the draw. I suspect it has more to do with where the airports are- Christchurch and Auckland are the major airports in NZ, and there are multiple daily flights between Australia and NZ- I don’t think Wellington has a daily service internationally, but I may be wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/25 "2006-05-27T05:13:03Z")
> [@Martini Enfield](#): > > I don’t think Wellington has a daily service internationally, but I may be wrong… Yes, there are daily direct flights between Wellington and Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246/26 "2006-05-27T05:14:23Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Yes, there are daily direct flights between Wellington and Sydney. Fair enough- as you say then, it must be the luck of the draw… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-post-oriface-youre-trying-to-piss-off-one-of-your-defenders/358246.md?page=1)