IPhone 4S (Sprint) takes a really long time to send messages

Hello all,
I have a 16GB iPhone 4S that I purchased on launch day, and lately it's been giving me problems, mostly having to do with text messaging. If I send a message, it sometimes goes through instantly, or it sometimes will take upwards of 5 minutes to send. Sometimes it refuses to send until I unlock the phone (if I've locked it while the message is sending). These problems seem to be intermittent, and iMessage seems to be unaffected (all my iMessages go through instantly).
I'm running 5.0.1, and I've done everything I can think of (deleting all messages, resetting network settings, restoring). I don't think it's a network problem, because some 4S-toting friends who are on the same network aren't having problems either.

Window menu -> Activity menuitem will give you all the background processes of Mail, and should give you an idea what is hanging its processes.  
Mail can especially get tied up if Spotlight or Time Machine are trying to redo their indices.

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