I haven't felt any significant delay because usually the transaction will show up with zero confirmations within 5 minutes or so then I can rest assured that it is coming to me.
When blocks become persistently full, you will never be able to safely assume that a zero-conf transaction will ever get included in a block.
And that is a fact.
O.k. I will accept your representation. Currently, we seem to be a long ways away from the "fact" that you are asserting to be coming about, and from my understanding, there are several potential bandaid solutions in place until a possible more permanent solution is agreed upon or implemented by coup de at...
