How can an email take one month to arrive???

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How can an email take one month to arrive???

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An email I sent from my mobile phone to my PC on July 27th has just arrived, taking only one day short of a month :shock:

The phone has been out of order for the last two days (switched off), so it cannot have just left. How can an email take that long? Any ideas from IT techies?
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My brother had a problem with text messages sending (or repeating) after 3 weeks or a month. A few days later, it stopped working altogether. No real idea *why* though.

(It reminds me of a time I saw a traffic signal that had a solid green light with a flashing red light. I asked my friend "What does that mean? His reply was, "It means it's broken.")
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Re: How can an email take one month to arrive???

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knuxie wrote:How quick was the bill for that email?
Email is inclusive on the contract, so not itemized bill
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Neptune wrote:How can an email take one month to arrive???
I think it's because you have a brass, piston, BBb phone.

Shoulda sprung for the rotary bassphone! :P
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Sounds like the email got bounced around and possibly got stuck in either your wireless provider's or your isp's mail server. Could have happened during a scheduled maintenance or they werehaving a routing issue. Usually once a month that stuff gets purged and ...wa-la...here's you email.
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bort wrote:(It reminds me of a time I saw a traffic signal that had a solid green light with a flashing red light. I asked my friend "What does that mean? His reply was, "It means it's broken.")
What it really means is that the intersection reverts to as if it had 4-way stop signs at all lanes, so you stop and take turns, with the vehicle on the right of simultaneously approaching vehicles having the priority.
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