Re: Why do so many people fail to tip their delivery person?

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In message <e3kst1$kac$02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wayne Brown <awaynebrown@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Adam Grinter wrote:

Around here?

Usenet is an international forum, so your (presumably)
American perspective on this issue is rather misplaced.
[...]

There's a standing joke on the Internet that a poster who writes
"around here," "in this country" etc can only mean the United
States because few Americans seem to be able to imagine that
what they're writing can be read in Mongolia and the rest of
the world.

I get letters from America often with no mention of America in the return address. I assume that because Americans know where they are, they think the rest of world knows, too.
--
James Follett. Novelist. Earthsearch on BBC7 every damned evening.
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