Saturday
(0)"This week it cost me 2,750 dollars to airmail a letter to Britain containing three A4 sheets of paper."
- Jan Raath in yesterday's Times reporting from what remains of Zimbabwe
I rather expect it is due to what most people call inflation. I seriously doubt that the 'dollars' are US$.
Posted by Uncle Bill at May 17, 2003 10:11 PM
Well, the dollar is already at incredible lows in comparison to the euro.
Posted by infamouse at May 17, 2003 10:19 PM
As of today the Zimbabwe dollar is trading at 0.00012 US dollars. And so the Times reporter paid approximately US$3.20 for his airmail package.
Posted by Matt Foster at May 18, 2003 04:40 AM
Oh, I assumed they were real dollars and he was talking about bribes on the journalistic expense account to get a document out of a police state without being burned, pulped or eaten.
Perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick.
Posted by mark at May 18, 2003 01:42 PM
In 1971, the missus and I vacationed (holidayed?) in Rhodesia. The US dollar was then roughly at parity with the Rhodesian dollar (the R$ may actually have been stronger).
I remember it being pretty pricy in Salisbury (am I permitted to use that word?) and environs for a couple of Yanks.
I shudder at the thought of what has become of such a beautiful country.
Posted by John J. Coupal at May 18, 2003 04:51 PM
