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My package delay has me wondering about history's timing
My order is stuck in shipping hell for like a month now. It made me lol, what if the Pony Express had these kinds of holdups? News about the gold rush or the Civil War would have been way late. Whole settlements or battles could have gone totally different.
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foster.dylan7mo ago
Oh man, your post reminded me of my friend Gary. He ordered a train ticket by mail for a big trip back in 2005, just before everything went online. The confirmation letter got lost for three weeks. He missed the entire trip, a family reunion he still talks about. It really hits home how much we rely on things showing up on time, now and forever ago. A delay like that a hundred years back could mean missing your only shot at something huge.
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the_olivia7mo ago
Wait, 2005? That feels way too recent for a train ticket to get lost in the mail and ruin everything. Wild how things were still that fragile just before everything switched over.
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grant1306mo ago
Man, that's brutal. It's crazy to think how a single piece of paper held that much power. Makes you wonder about all the letters with job offers or acceptances to schools that just vanished into the system, changing lives forever without anyone ever knowing why.
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