It should be know that there was a second post in various parts of the u.s. too, i remember getting morning and afternoon mail in the lightly populated rural area in which i lived when i was very young. I think it changed for us around 1978 or so to 1 morning delivery at around 11:30am, with what then amounted to yesterday's paper because it was the afternoon edition of the day before. This caused one of the local papers to falter imho because you could get the news ftmp on the tv, and the paper that was not current lost significant value, there were huge changes in publishing too along with that, a real change of regime to some extent. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments