hmm… is it possible that my mail was sent to Slovakia instead? My Slovene friend is never received my letter. I sent it last year!

     by fxas on May 24, 2005 at 7:13 am

Hm, average human 70kg???  The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey presented following: "The weight of the average American
is increasing alarmingly: the average for both men and women has
increased by 11 kilograms over the past 40 years."  Adult males (20-74): 86,52; female: 75,3kg->"Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10
pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350
million more gallons of fuel in 2000 just to carry the additional
weight of Americans!"

     by Jebenhausen on May 24, 2005 at 8:52 am

So thats where my World of Warcraft cd and several DVDs are .

     by Sps on May 24, 2005 at 9:20 am

Not as bad as having your Microsoft beta DVDs sent to Singapore.

     by Dr. Shim on May 24, 2005 at 10:14 am

Do you think the UAE ever gets mail addressed to the USA or vice versa? Or Latvia and Lithuania (of course, that would be a short-distance exchange)? Or Tadzhikistan and Turkmenistan? (Do they even have a functioning postal service?)

     by rolig on May 24, 2005 at 11:26 am

Rolig: Why wouldn’t Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have a functioning postal service? Pretty much every country in the world has one, unless it’s in the midst of a civil war. The two countries are poor, and their postal systems are as unrealiable as in many other peripheral parts of the former Soviet Union, but still: Saying that reminds me of "Westerners" who were surprised that Slovenia and other "Eatern" European countries actually have *gasp* television…

     by AZ2SI on May 24, 2005 at 12:22 pm

I should add that courier services (DHL, UPS) are also available in the region..

     by AZ2SI on May 24, 2005 at 12:25 pm

actully turkmenistan is a well developed state. tajikistan is another sory though

     by Moris on May 24, 2005 at 1:00 pm

Jebenhausen: Forgot about Africa?

     by CX20RE on May 24, 2005 at 1:24 pm

That Adult West Indian manatee that I’d promised to mail to you to keep
you warm during the bitterly lonely and cold Slovenian winter
nights?   I swear I had addressed it correctly!  
If there’s a large pkg on your front porch today, smelling to high
heaven, you’ll know what it is.

     by DarkoV on May 24, 2005 at 2:13 pm

Mmmmm… manatee, the cattle of the sea.

     by Michael M. on May 24, 2005 at 5:59 pm

As long as it’s not the chicken of the sea…

     by crni on May 24, 2005 at 6:54 pm

who were surprised that Slovenia and other "Eatern" European countries actually have *gasp* television… Television? 
What’s that? Wait a minute… isn’t this an old form of entertainment
from the second half of the 20th century? Ain’t got that ’round here
anymore.

     by Dr. Kruegell on May 24, 2005 at 9:23 pm

Sorry if I offended anyone with my Tajikistan/Turkmenistan remark. Actually, I think Tajikistan did have a pretty terrible civil war after the fall of the USSR; I don’t know what the situation is like there now. And I believe Turkmenistan is run by this megalomaniac who has been mainly engaged in building statues to himself and having schoolchildren sing him songs of praise. Somehow that doesn’t jive with having a free and independent postal system. By “functioning postal system” I meant basically one that that was reliable and where government officials weren’t reading your mail to make sure you weren’t saying anything nasty about the Father of the People.

     by rolig on May 25, 2005 at 12:42 pm

(we need an andti-Italics fix this time)What about Austria
and Australia? (the fact that the women’s triathlon in Athens was won
by an Australian competing for Austria doesn’t really help)My eperience with mail via Slovakia: 3 times from USA (+ once via Warsaw) and once from Belgium, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany and Croatia. I’m not kidding you.

     by PiiiiiP on May 25, 2005 at 6:11 pm

You’d think the Croatians of all people would manage not to get
confused, since they and the Slovenes were part of the same country not
so long ago.

     by David F. on May 26, 2005 at 1:42 am

Apparently, you can win the National Geography Bee if you know that Ljubljana is the cultural center of Slovenia! http://startribune.com/stories/389/5422852.html

     by Rainerd on May 26, 2005 at 10:27 pm

I regret to inform you about that guys but i have been sending letters and parcels all year to Slovenia, and they were always on time and never lost their way. Should i start worry? is there something wrong maybe? We have a terrrible consept about time in general here in Greece.Always late,etc.Some things though seem to work ‘fine’lately…(weeeird)
???
Athens-Ljubljana 5 days ,simple post and 3 days the express.

     by Athenean Republic on May 27, 2005 at 3:07 am

Maybe ΕΛΤΑ was taken over by Germans?A few years ago there
was an example why Italian post’s time concept actually IS good:
someone sent many letter bombs (well, package bombs) from the same post
office in Rome to different addresses around Italy. In Slovenia they’d
arrive next day and most of them would blow up as intended. In Italy,
the first one was fortunately discovered, so there was no damage, as
the others kept coming for another month, one of them even needed 2
weeks to another post office in Rome.

     by PiiiiiP on May 28, 2005 at 12:50 am

Piiip: propably….
since almost everything that works in Athens has been made by dze dzerrmans (–> Metro, Opera/Music Hall, Lidl supermarket(s), this new bakery around the corner….)

How Slovenes and Germans are getting on?well, bad,? just curiocity ?(
of the kind that killed the cat,lol) , plz someone answer

     by Athenean Republic on May 28, 2005 at 5:23 am

In personal contacts Slovenes get along quite well with anyone, no matter what they think about GWB’s policy.
Older generation were brainwashed that Germans are bad (and DEM
are good). E.g.: the directors of public RTV are a bunch of old guys,
so when Sisters wanted to sing in German at Eurosong 2002, they said no
because German is a bad language, just look at what they’ve done to us
in 1941-5 bla bla. Of course English would have been no problem.Younger
Slovenes don’t see that many problems, though the old mentality has
passed on a bit, which is really stupid as the Germans are probably the
last nation in Europe we could have some suspicions about.
(it’s of course a whole different matter with Austrians)Anyway, there’s not that much contact between Slovenes and Germans. 

     by PiiiiiP on May 31, 2005 at 4:33 am