Shipping and Murphys Law

[KiltedPilot]

One Tuesday, a few years ago, I received a courtesy invite, by e-mail, to a meeting that I might be interested that afternoon. I had time, and it interested me, so I wandered over to the meeting room at the appointed time, but no one was there. Puzzled, I returned to my desk and looked again at the e-mail. Turns out the e-mail had been sent two weeks earlier, and had taken 2 weeks to travel about 100 feet!

If I recall correctly, that was the same company at which the e-mail administrator sent me an e-mail to tell me my e-mail wasn't working!

[Kilted-Marine]

My Favorite--

Around 1984, I was stationed at Camp Butler in Okinawa while serving in the Marine Corps. My Girl Friend (from Rhode Island) mailed me some banana bread.

While it was in the mail I was transferred to a Combat Service Support Detachment. The package arrived in okinawa and was forwarded to my Ship.

When the packged arrived on ship I had already been landed in South Korea to serve in a operation Bear Hunt which takes place in the northern part of S. Korea.

When the Package arrived at the temporary camp located about 10 miles south of the DMZ, I had already been flow via helicopter out to a different ship,

when the packaged arrive on that ship, I had already been sent back to my unit in Okinawa.

total time for package to arrive was about 6 months. and no i did not eat it.. Although I was tempted