Many things with standard shipping and handling take a week or two to get to you. A letter will take anywhere from a day to 3-5 days in the country, depending

Many things with standard shipping and handling take a week or two to get to you. A letter will take anywhere from a day to 3-5 days in the country, depending on where you are mailing to and from. This is mostly due to the expanse of the country. Boxes generally take a bit longer, and you pay for priority instead of just waiting until their load is big enough. In addition, a good number of places only work during the week to ship it out. This along with other upfront delays make it go a bit longer as well. Oddly enough, sometimes you get packages from overseas before you get a domestic package, even though the quoted mailing time was longer.