Here is the proof: Post is slower than snails

An IT worker in Poland who received in January a priority letter which was sent on 20th December calculated that a snail would have been faster than the post.

Michal Szybalski calculated that it would have taken the snail less than 10 days to get to his home. The distance between his home and the senders is 11.1km and he assumed that the snail travels at 0.48km per hour.

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