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charged insulators

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering in one of my idle moments:

"If an insulator allows so little flow of charges, how can an insulator
end up as uniformly charged (as we use in examples in electrostatics)?
Does it mean that we can achieve uniformly-distributed charges in an
insulator only after a very long time?"

Pls. enlighten me.

Darwin Z. Palima
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City
PHILIPPINES