At 09:59 AM 10/2/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Thaks Harry for the detailed answer, and Terry for the offer to send a
>brick. I will first try to find some locally, it seems crazy to be mailing
>bricks :-)
In their infinite wisdom, and being a part of a legislated effort to
encourage development and settlement (also usually an infinitely wise
undertaking), the US Postal Service once upon a time (and may still)
maintained a program of subsidized postage to Alaska. What some bright lad
discovered was that it was cheaper to MAIL construction material to Alaska
than to truck it there so that's what they did . . . . they mailed hundreds
of tons of bricks to Alaska. Strewth.
Regards,
Harry
