I am a total netflix junkie, I've got about 200 DVDs in my queue. I joined in order to get some foreign and independent films that the local video rental stores don't carry (this is not NYC, here in Iowa they just don't bother carrying things that are not main stream), and then I discovered this huge collection of BBC television!
I've watched all of Anthony Stewart Head's Manchild
and I'm working my way through all of the Midsomer Murder Mysteries.
I've found netflix to be very fast and reliable, and here in small town Iowa the mail is frequently slow and unreliable...I don't know what their secret is!