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Posted: **25 Jan 2007, 17:21**

This made me laugh:

FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff, empty cans

Its a wonder any business gets done in the US now.

Posted: **25 Jan 2007, 17:57**

The US bureaucratic mind has no equal!

Posted: **25 Jan 2007, 19:48**

Reminds me of this:

http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/for ... php?t=3968

Posted: **25 Jan 2007, 22:10**

Adam1 wrote:The US bureaucratic mind has no equal!

Hmm.... I dont know. Ever had to deal with the bureaucracy in Spain, France or Italy?

Posted: **25 Jan 2007, 22:46**

skeptik wrote:
Adam1 wrote:The US bureaucratic mind has no equal!
Hmm.... I dont know. Ever had to deal with the bureaucracy in Spain, France or Italy?

Not directly. I lived in Germany for a while and it has a similar reputation. My feeling is that rules there are complex and many, but that they are not (contrary to the stereotype) always applied as slavishly, humourlessly or unthinkingly as in the US.

We were on a train coming back from Dresden to Berlin in October and I stupidly left our ticket in Dresden. The conductor could see that I was pretty stressed about not having my ticket. He accepted my credit card receipt and my story. I cannot imagine that happening in the US, or indeed here.

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