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“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
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.
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.
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Must have more money than sense…..
I rather expect it is due to what most people call inflation. I seriously doubt that the ‘dollars’ are US$.
Well, the dollar is already at incredible lows in comparison to the euro.
As of today the Zimbabwe dollar is trading at 0.00012 US dollars. And so the Times reporter paid approximately US$3.20 for his airmail package.
Oh, I assumed they were real dollars and he was talking about bribes on the journalistic expense account to get a document out of a police state without being burned, pulped or eaten.
Perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick.
In 1971, the missus and I vacationed (holidayed?) in Rhodesia. The US dollar was then roughly at parity with the Rhodesian dollar (the R$ 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.