Tygran
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
That really doesn't make sense to me, I was under the impression that in the US people expect superb levels of service, and companies that don't give it go bust. How long does regular snailmail take to deliver things over there? Here snail mail takes 1-3 days, so you wouldn't pay a courier a fortune to deliver something if you could pay the Post Office 30p to deliver it quicker. Also when I've ordered a game from the US and it was sent with UPS, it was received at my address in the UK three days later, so your courier companies surely can't be as inefficient as you are implying - they simply wouldn't still be in business...
Obviously I understand that it's a much bigger place than England, I remember going on a Greyhound from New York to Cincinnatti, for example. But there's a big difference between a two day service and a two week service... :ahhhhh:
It makes absolutely no sense. Our mail service in this country is actually quite good, fast and reliable. That's not even touching the private companies (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc...) that are probably even better.
It also has absolutely nothing to do with any of that. It has everything to do with the government over here making it difficult for online poker players via legislation like the UIGEA (see: SAFE Port Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Yes, this legistaltion really was for ports (as in boats, harbors, freight shipment containers etc) and they snuck this totally unrelated amendment into it at the last second to screw with internet poker/gambling sites.
Like I said..backwards. corrupt would be another good adjective.