Re: OT: Priority Mail Service (PMS)

lynn.woosley@juno.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:21:37 -0600 (MDT) "Walter A. Moores"
> <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu> writes:
> >
> >
> >       I have been sending out all of my orders via the above
> >service.
> >Many customers have complained that it took a week to receive their
> >order.
> <snip>
> >       Anyone have a similar experience?
> >
> >
> >
> Walter, I things I mail from Atlanta reach my sister in Canada faster
> than they reach someone on the other side of town.  It has taken more
> than a week on occasion for priority mail to reach from Atlanta to
> Chattanooga, both of which are post office hub cities.  I've given up on
> logical service times from the post office, and now send all packages, as
> well as any important letters, by UPS or FedEx.  I must confess, however,
> that UPS did take THREE WEEKS do deliver some (formerly, by the time I
> received them) live plants from Oregon to Marietta.  Apparently the
> entire truck went astray somewhere along the way.  The Postal Service
> beats that however, they once took nearly FOUR YEARS to deliver a
> Christmas card from San Diego, CA to Tullahoma, TN.
> 
> Lynn Woosley
> Marietta, GA
> USDA Zone 8

Lynn -- Once upon a time, long, long ago, when I was a college student,
I worked for the Post Office during Christmas breaks, sometimes as a
carrier and sometimes inside as a mail sorter. One season, as a mail
sorter, I had noticed a particular piece of mail go by on the conveyor
belt several times and finally end up with the fellow next to me.
Knitting his brow, he asked anyone within hearing, "Where is BA-HA-MAZ,
INDIANA?" No one answered. I took the envelope from him. It read, in
longhand, "Bahamas Isles." Does that help to explain the situation?

Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA (midway
between Indiana and the Bahamas) jgcrump@erols.com
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