On the fact that Canada doesn't seem to know that Thailand exists.

Via my good friend Suzy who lives in Thailand, a conversation one of her friends Mothers had with Purolater (like Fed Ex) whilst trying to send a package to Thailand.

"Do you purolate to Thailand?"

"Yup"

"Good. I need to purolate this to Bangkok."

"Ok. Where is that?"

"It’s in Thailand"

"Where is that?’

"It’s in Asia"

"Is that in South America?"

"No. It’s in Asia"

"Where is that near?"

"The tsunami. It’s where the tsunami hit."

"South America then?"

"No. Look, it’s important that we get this right.
It’s important that this gets to Thailand, not South
America. South America is in the Americas, on this
side but south. Thailand is near Indonesia where the
tsunami hit, in Asia."

"Ok. We have this code chart here. Europe is #1. Is
it in Europe?"

"No. It’s code 4, see? Right there where it says
Asia"

"Japan is code #2. Is it close to Japan?"

"No".

"Code #3 is North America, so it can’t be that."

"It’s code 4. Trust me Just write that."

"Are you sure that it isn’t in South America?"

"Look, is there someone you can ask?"

"Yes, I can call the office in Toronto......"

From another room.......

"Hello? I have a lady here who needs to send a
package to Singapore. Can you give me the code for
Singapore?".

Yelling into the next room: "NO WAIT! NO IT’S
BANGKOK!! BANGKOK IN THAILAND!! NOT SINGAPORE!!".

"What?"

"BANGKOK!!! BANGKOK!! TELL THEM BANGKOK!!"

"She says its Bangkok. Yes. OK Thank you"

Entering the room..."That’s Bangkok. Code #4".

"Yeah. OK. Thanks."

"So where is that in Bangkok?"

"Bangplat." (Sensing trouble here)

"What?"

"Bang....plat, Bang...kok"

"Bangsplat?"

"Yeah, Bangsplat. They call it that because of all
the earthquakes. Whenever there is an earthquake,
everyone yells Bangsplat."

"Really?"

"Yeah."