Post Office twice as fast as message in a bottle

(Drawing by Edouard Riou)

Although we’ve long suspected that snail-mail is faster than messages in bottles, we now have some hard evidence.

Whereas a bottled message that was dropped from an ocean liner 50 years ago first arrived in Australia this week, a postcard sent from Hong Kong a mere 23 years ago arrived in Illinois last week.  This proves it: messages sent via post offices arrive more than twice as fast as those dropped into oceans!

Who would have thought?

Resources

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/17/search-for-british-author-of-50-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-washed-up-in-australia

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/a-postcard-mailed-from-hong-kong-in-1993-arrived-in-illinois-last-week/ar-AAEpGRo?OCID=ansmsnnews11

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