Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My grandkids got school photos [a few]\u00a0weeks ago.\u00a0 I received my prints a week ago and took the extra set to the UPS store to send to my parents, the Great-Grand Parents.\u00a0 Cheapest to send by US mail First class in a flat mailer so that\u2019s what I did. \u00a0No tracking, no signature, just mail them.<\/p>\n
Spur of the moment, decided to visit my folks on Saturday: no photos.<\/p>\n
The mailer should have gone out in the evening mail from Lexington Avenue at 5:00<\/span> on Monday.\u00a0 I was at my parents\u2019 house Saturday. \u00a0Five business days is not long enough for a First Class letter to get from St. Paul to Rochester?<\/p>\n
[Columbus Day, when Joe mailed this], is a federal holiday.\u00a0 Tomorrow delivery maybe, for a total of eight days? \u00a0Pony Express could have gotten it to California in that much time.\u00a0 The quality of service has fallen off dramatically.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s only photos, nothing urgent; but every time I use the Post Office for anything other than a Money Order, I am reminded why I refuse to use the Post Office for anything other than a Money Order.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I actually sent a letter – not an urgent one – via USPS last weekend. \u00a0It was the first time I’ve done it in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My grandkids got school photos [a few]\u00a0weeks ago.\u00a0 I received my prints a week ago and took the extra set to the UPS store to send to my parents, the Great-Grand Parents.\u00a0 Cheapest to send by US mail First class in a flat mailer so that\u2019s what I did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56051,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions\/56051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}