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I needed to send some important/urgent papers back to England, this week.  I had everything prepared over the weekend, and wanted to get them sent off on Monday.  There’s a Post Office about half a mile from my office, but it’s always crowded at lunchtime, so I thought I’d quickly nip out mid-morning.  Unfortunately, my plans to be back before anyone noticed I had gone didn’t take into consideration the permanent go-slow that the Post Office staff seem to be on.
I was about the 6th person in the queue when I got there.  Not great, but pretty good compared to the usual lunchtime […]

There’s an episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns wants to send an express package to someone.  It rapidly goes through several handlers (in a parody of a FedEx or DHL advert - I forget which) before being given to Homer to deliver.  Homer sees Mr. Burns’s name on it, and not realizing that this is the ‘From’ person, rushes, panting into Mr. Burns’ office to deliver it to him, some 30 seconds after Mr. Burns sent it in the first place.  Classic stuff. But sadly all too real…
I’ve just relocated my office from Brussels (Belgium) to Houston, Texas.  I packed up my […]