WAY too much time on hands!

There are all kinds of folks out there, including those who stress

and obsess with every little thing. Alot of these people are just

anal-retentive, while others simply have a boatload of time on 

their hands; many of such people then, either intentionally or

not, make the lives of normal folks a bit more interesting 

(if for nothing else, to make fun of the crazy nitpickers!) Prime

example - a man in Poland received a letter on January 3 that 

had been dispatched December 20. Believe it or not, it had been 

sent priority. In any case, the gentleman who received the tardy 

mail made calculations about the actual time it took to get his 

letter. He came up with the conclusion that a snail moved faster 

than the Polish postal service. It took 294 hours for the letter to

arrive, and had to travel 11.1 kilometers. Given the distance and

the time, the letter traveled at the scorching speed of 0.03775

kilometers per hour; a garden snail was timed at the lightening

pace of 0.048 kilometers per hour. Hence your proof, mail in

Poland moves as slow as snails, or in this case, even slower!