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Gmail delays

I have randomly been experiencing delays while receiving email on my gmail account. I have not received a single email in the last 5 days that arrived on time. The delays range from 4 hrs to 4 days. Gmail/Google seems to have no plausible explaination for me yet. I have tried contacting their support and have received a few automated responses asking me to read up their FAQ and online help.

Hey Google, this is email! I have implemented RFC 821 and 822 in the past. It is not very complicated.

Before I switched to gmail, I had a Hotmail account for 6 years and never ever did I have an issue such as this. Yeah well, the server would be down once in a while but never a problem that was not resolved in a couple of hours.

I am personally a big Google evangelist and a M$ hater. However if Google cannot fix this in the next day or two, GOOG stock is going to take a big beating as far as I am concerned.