Snail’s pace
Question: Everyone knows that conventional letter post is referred to by
e-mail users as “snail mail”. I wonder if this dismissive term may be really
accurate.
The other day I posted a letter to my parents who live about 25 kilometres
away from me. It arrived two days later. I calculated that the average speed of
this letter’s journey was around 0.5 kilometres per hour.
If I had used the cheaper second-class post, the letter would typically
travel at 0.25 kilometres per hour.
How fast does a snail travel? Is snail mail now actually slower than a snail,…
