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To: JPR who wrote (9093)	10/28/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

DIPY: In India most likely the mail is sorted by hand, while it is sorted or conveyed by machines and hands in US. The tattered look of your aerogram is either intentional or the result of chew and spit by the sorting machines or conveyer belts on this receiving end. May be the the CBI is reading your letters, patching them up clumsily so that you know that somebody read that before you did. First off, those were not letters addressed to me. As I have said, many people who have received aerogrammes from India have told me that they got their letters in tatters. Possibly as a result of the post office using aerogrammes that are 2 or 3 DECADES old, because the "face value" of those things is the rate that prevailed 20 or 30 years ago. They have additional stamps tacked on to reflect the current postal rates. Second, I receive mail from other parts of the world too (as well as from within the US, of course). If the problem was with the sorting machines and conveyor belts at this end, that would have been obvious by now. Your idea of Federal express, UPS etc serving India is a good idea. One good idea, I must admit. Well, that is the ONLY way that the episode of the tattered aerogrammes is going to come to an end! <g> Just get rid of all that "swadeshi" crap, and let the American tell Indians what to do. If they just go and work for him, they should do a whole lot better than what they did on their own. Talking of this "swadeshi" nonsense, do you think that the BJP will be able to pass the Insurance Bill? For the sake of India, one should hope that they will be able to, with the help of some of their allies and the Congress. It remains to be seen how many "swadeshi" fruitcakes there are in the BJP, and how the two sides get along in the future after this.