Mail Takes Forever to Receive

My e-mail sometimes takes hours to receive. I am using gmail. Is anyone else having this problem. Is there a solution?

If a received message is not available at the incoming mail server to download or access for hours after the message was sent, you need to take this up with Gmail technical support.

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