I don't understand why SSHRC still communicates results by surface mail. But that also says a lot my biases. For some reason, email seems more reliable to me than surface mail now (I've rarely sent letters since I started using email for almost everything, about 2 or 3 years ago). I'm also wondering why SSHRC doesn't inform universities first about their decisions this year, which wasn't the case before. It creates a situation where annoucements might not be received at the same time, often even for students who live in the same city. And it makes me worry about what's in my mailbox for the first time in a long while.
