Postal facilities at Houston inetrnational airport

It's not the distance. I wonder the safety of the walking route. FFM

Miguel Cruz wrote:
MTV wrote:

Duncan McNiven wrote:

Next Sunday I will fly from UK to Houston international airport, and 4
hours later fly out again to Mexico. Whilst at Houston I would like to
send some of my luggage (1 case) to an address in USA. Is there any post
or courrier service at the airport I can use (on a Sunday)?

Yes, but probably need to take a taxi to it since it's about 1 mile from
terminals, near the freight shipping docks. They're open until midnight
every day of the year.


Pretty scary to imagine 1 mile being considered beyond walking distance.

miguel

Frank F. Matthews wrote:
It's not the distance. I wonder the safety of the walking route. FFM


Maybe TSA will escort him.

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:33:57 GMT (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

:MTV wrote:

: Duncan McNiven wrote:

: Next Sunday I will fly from UK to Houston international airport, and 4
: hours later fly out again to Mexico. Whilst at Houston I would like to
: send some of my luggage (1 case) to an address in USA. Is there any post
: or courrier service at the airport I can use (on a Sunday)?

: Yes, but probably need to take a taxi to it since it's about 1 mile from
: terminals, near the freight shipping docks. They're open until midnight
: every day of the year.

:Pretty scary to imagine 1 mile being considered beyond walking distance.

Perhaps the poster lives in LA.

When I lived there, I used to walk a couple of blocks to pick up a Sunday
paper - an act considered very strange. Natives will drive down the block.

--
Binyamin Dissen
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Frank F. Matthews wrote:
Miguel Cruz wrote:
Pretty scary to imagine 1 mile being considered beyond walking distance.

It's not the distance. I wonder the safety of the walking route. FFM

From crime or from poor pedestrian facilities?

I have no particular basis for this other than conjecture, but it seems to
me that with all the security around (police cars everywhere, etc.) there
wouldn't be much to fear in the way of crime.

As for the other concern, I guess some airports are really only for the
adventurous pedestrians. I recall a walk from PHL on a long layover that
wasn't necessarily a whole lot of fun (darting across freeways, etc.).

miguel
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:27:07 GMT (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

:Frank F. Matthews wrote:

: Miguel Cruz wrote:

: Pretty scary to imagine 1 mile being considered beyond walking distance.

: It's not the distance. I wonder the safety of the walking route. FFM

:From crime or from poor pedestrian facilities?

:I have no particular basis for this other than conjecture, but it seems to
:me that with all the security around (police cars everywhere, etc.) there
:wouldn't be much to fear in the way of crime.

:As for the other concern, I guess some airports are really only for the
:adventurous pedestrians. I recall a walk from PHL on a long layover that
:wasn't necessarily a whole lot of fun (darting across freeways, etc.).

You have to drive a few blocks off of IAH to get to 45, 59 or 8.

It is not directly connected to a highway.

--
Binyamin Dissen
http://www.dissensoftware.com

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:27:07 GMT, (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

As for the other concern, I guess some airports are really only for the
adventurous pedestrians.

I walked once from a hotel just outside LHR to the Hertz lot. I don't
think I'd do it again...sidewalks were intermittent, the grass was
muddy, crosswalks unpainted and the cars were coming from the wrong
damn direction

In article , Frank F.
Matthews wrote:

It's not the distance. I wonder the safety of the walking route. FFM

Not to speak of all the luggage on that 1km walk.

The other problem will be coming back to the terminal. It's probably
difficult to get a taxi around the post office. And in my experience,
there's always a long queue in US post offices, hence getting the taxi
to wait may be a tad expensive.

mrtravel wrote in
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1 mile=20 minute walk..


Walk at IAH? In the terminals, yes, but there's a notable shortage
shortage of sidewalks outside. I suspect that should one try to walk to
the post office, he/she would likely be stopped by the gendarmeres (or by
guys with big butterfly nets), were he able to evade being run down like a
stray possum by crazed rednecks, hung over from a long Saturday night in
beer joints, roaring about in big-tired pickemups (with loaded gunracks to
dispatch any still-flopping road kill).

TMO

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