Maybe the mail system is another thing inherited from the Spanish.

In Spain it is believed (and although seems incredible everything indicates that it is correct, or least in the various places I have lived) that new mail is dumped on the sorting table. When the next bag arrives it is dumped on top of the letters not yet sorted. Thus the first letter on the table is the last to get sorted, when no more bags have arrived when it is reached. The belief explains the fact that I have had a letter posted in UK delivered the next day and other letters take anything up to three weeks.



Incidentally, I have just asked my son in UK to post a Debit Card to a relative in RP, so he can draw cash from my account in UK at his ATM in RP.

This is part of my email to my son:-

I usually cut a hole, the size of the card, in a piece of card the thickness of the debit card and sellotape the debit card into the hole, so that anyone feeling the envelope will not realise there is a debit card inside. I also use or reuse an envelope with commercial advertising on it.