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Here in the US, you'd be lucky if 1) your letter to someone across the same city gets there in a day (not even same day, but 24hrs) and 2) if the USPS doesn't l
by craftyguy 9y ago
Here in the US, you'd be lucky if 1) your letter to someone across the same city gets there in a day (not even same day, but 24hrs) and 2) if the USPS doesn't lose, destroy, or deliver it to the wrong address.
- ubernostrum 9y agoYou do know that private delivery services intermingle heavily with USPS, right? FedEx and UPS both use USPS services (a lot of "last mile" work), and also both provide services to USPS (contracts to carry mail by air).
- craftyguy 9y agoI fail to see how that makes my previous comment invalid..
- 13of40 9y agoA couple of years ago I had some paperwork I had to mail from a Seattle suburb to the state capitol in Olympia. Thought it would be a good idea to pay $5 and send it express, "overnight". Express came with an SMS option, which I signed up for, so for the next week I was getting texts about how it had made another incremental hop from one warehouse to the next...