Time for air mail

[Frederick Williams]

An air mail letter from Thailand has taken 19 days to arrive. A
bar-code like thing on the front of it has been obliterated with a black
felt-tip pen and a white strip of paper has been stuck on the back with
a bar-code like thing on it.

Two questions:

(i) Is 19 days a long time?

(ii) What's with the bar codes?

I can answer (i): it's yes.

Also (question number three of two) what are those bar-code like things
called?

[Emil Tiades]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:16:39 +0000, Frederick Williams

Post by Frederick Williams
An air mail letter from Thailand has taken 19 days to arrive. A
bar-code like thing on the front of it has been obliterated with a black
felt-tip pen and a white strip of paper has been stuck on the back with
a bar-code like thing on it.
(i) Is 19 days a long time?
(ii) What's with the bar codes?
I can answer (i): it's yes.
Also (question number three of two) what are those bar-code like things
called?

Have you asked your postman?

[Frederick Williams]

Post by Emil Tiades
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:16:39 +0000, Frederick Williams

Post by Frederick Williams
An air mail letter from Thailand has taken 19 days to arrive. A
bar-code like thing on the front of it has been obliterated with a black
felt-tip pen and a white strip of paper has been stuck on the back with
a bar-code like thing on it.
(i) Is 19 days a long time?
(ii) What's with the bar codes?
I can answer (i): it's yes.
Also (question number three of two) what are those bar-code like things
called?

Have you asked your postman?

No. I don't often see postie (despite which I continue to believe that
he exists).