rags! get away from that cold wet white weather - Sydney is so much warmer!

I was reading about Canada post's woes in my local paper - doubling postage & cutting services - are you sure you're not already in Australia?

Scrooge McAusPost raised overseas christmas stamps from $1.60 to $2.60, & a tiny little cardboard-covered CD cost $6.25 to send overseas!!!!!

sandra ('We'll all be ruined, said Hanrahan' - line from a famous Australian poem where a farmer is talking about the drought & other miseries)