Mail service to Canada (2)

Hurray, my brother's birthday card at last arrived in Canada on July 20, having taken 29 days to get there. The Russian balloon took 11 days to go round the globe. In 1953, when my father emigrated to America, we used to receive letters within a week and parcels in three to four weeks by surface mail. It seems technology has thrown us backwards. Last year, on October 15, my sister-in-law posted a calendar and Christmas card by surface mail. It arrived in Malta on December 1 and Maltapost did not deliver it, so on New Year's Eve I received a final notice to go and pick my parcel up from the... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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