Technical internet problems hindering email communication

A great sigh of relief ....I thought I was the only one experiencing "slight" email & blog problems... I believed to be the only owner of an inbox without an active "In" feature and a send option that listens once every 4 clicks. I believed this until I read Katherine Tyrells' last entry in her blog Making a Mark. It wasn't until then that I realised that this IT problem (because it is a problem!) was not just specific to my computer but a problem that was wee bit bigger and a problem that needs to be DELT with. Katherine's problems seem to be directly related to google and Feedburners ' lack of quality performance whereas mine seem to be more Googlemail related. Here's what's been going wrong at my end (all Google related I must add). Feeds I am meant to get from Feedburner have not been arriving... Emails sent to me have reached my inbox a tad late .... 24 hours! (I can't help thinking that some have never reached me at all...