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Received a certified letter today from someone. Today meaning September 16,2020. It came from Lafayette, Louisiana. We share the same first three digits of zip code. This isn't like it came from lower slobobia or from even Shreveport for that matter :D
The postmark on the letter was dated March 16th 2020. :rolleyes:
Good thing it wasn't anything "important" (at least to me).
 
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I have occasionally read of postcards delivered 50 years late. How does that motto read? "Neither rain, nor snow, nor the passage of time..."

(Seriously, though, I like the USPs and its people a lot. Here in the PNW we've been pretty much non stop inside for the past week due to the hellacious air quality. Throughout, the PO has kept delivering the mail. Hardworking, conscientious people.)
 
In our area USPS is good and about half the time the packages arrive early.

However, I have come to the conclusion that they tend to be slow in the eastern half of the country.
 
I once got a press kit for Parker fountain pens delivered years after it was mailed. Parker sent another that I got within a week.

This year, my son ordered me caps from Rigby and Westley Richards that arrived via London in a very few days. This spoke well of both Royal Mail and USPS.

My favorite mail story is being told at a counter that there is no mail service in Australia! I was actually trying to mail books to AUSTRIA. The clerk had never heard of Austria. I'm serious.

BTW, Australia does have an excellent mail system. But it's halfway around the world from Austria.

My acquaintance did get the books in a few days. But UPS has charged me more for postage than a book cost. I think USPS is usually cheaper.
 
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My landlord once sent a certified letter addressed to "Tenent". Obviously he wanted my signature as an official acknowledgement that I received and accepted something. I never went to the post office to pick it up.

I wonder if they would have given it to me if I signed the return postcard "Tenent".
 
Received a certified letter today from someone. Today meaning September 16,2020. It came from Lafayette, Louisiana. We share the same first three digits of zip code. This isn't like it came from lower slobobia or from even Shreveport for that matter :D
The postmark on the letter was dated March 16th 2020. :rolleyes:
Good thing it wasn't anything "important" (at least to me).

Glad to see report that service has
improved in Louisiana.
 
On the other hand, I bought a mold this week from a guy in Western Idaho.
I paid him at 2:08 PM on the 14th and received it, USPS small flat rate box, in my rural route mailbox on the 16th.

Still ain't votin' by mail, though.:D
 
Not to be Captain Obvious here, but when reading these stories about long delivery times, I remember the millions of pieces of mail that are delivered timely compared to the minuscule percentage that gets all the attention.

The USPS, warts and all, is a national institution authorized in the Constitution, and we should do whatever is necessary to maintain it and keep it viable.

I gotta say, though, that Caj's title to this thread had me laughing!!:D
 
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I placed an order with Midway and chose to go pick it up rather than have it mailed. Shipping was a little cheaper than driving the 75 miles to pick it up. But it drives me nuts to follow the hundreds of miles that tracking shows the mag I ordered travels before it gets to me.
 
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