Postal mail arrives before email
General January 25th, 2008
It’s ironic that the week I’m reading about 18th century postal system history and significance, I received my new Netflix discs the evening before the emails arrived telling me the ones I’d returned were received. Score one for the USPS!
I watched two movies over the 3-day weekend, and dropped them in the mail Tuesday morning. Normally, I would expect that sometime Wednesday I’d get an email Netflix had received them, and later on Wednesday, get the your-next-movies-are-on-their-way emails. Wednesday came and went with no notifications. When I checked my mailbox Thursday evening, I had two new discs. Later that night, closer to 9pm, I got the “For Thu:” emails. When I woke up Friday morning, I had three emails from Netflix (the two “We’ve received” messages and a “Has Weeds arrived?” survey.)
So the timing was off and the email was out of order. Weird, huh? I didn’t dig into the headers too much, but it looks like the delays were before the emails arrived at my provider (meaning it’s Netflix or the Internet’s fault.) If I had to pick between the disc delivery or email delivery being slow, I’m perfectly fine with the emails lagging. It’s just out of character for Netflix to be anything less than right on time.
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