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Hmmm, I thought it came from the Pony Express too.
Here's a thought experiment for you-all. We retired to a country with NO mail service and no post office. They seem to get along but I really wonder how. I don't miss all the junk mail.
I'm currently staying in a country located north of the USA and mail service between the two countries is simply horrible. People mailed me Christmas cards in mid-December that arrived in late January. The woman who is taking in my mail sent me my new car registration the day after Christmas. It got here almost four weeks later.
I had to sign and have notarized a document regarding the distribution of my late mother's estate. The documents had to be received from every heir before the distribution could be made. In order not to hold up the works, I paid $42 to ensure that the document would get from Ontario to New Jersey in two days (and it did).
Recently there was the last bit of money, a few hundred bucks, that had to be distributed from the estate. My sister sent it out to most of my sibs from the estate account by check using the Bill Pay feature, but it did not allow checks to be sent to Canada, so she mailed me a paper check. Three weeks. I am only 500 miles away.
I don't know if it's the USPS, Canada Post, or a combination of the two that is a problem.
Hmmm, I thought it came from the Pony Express too.
Here's a thought experiment for you-all. We retired to a country with NO mail service and no post office. They seem to get along but I really wonder how. I don't miss all the junk mail.
How do you get other mail? Most things I can live without, and I don't miss the junk mail, either.
I had to find a workaround to deal with the tax documents that are being sent. I get a couple of W2s and a 1099, but they only come in paper. I have asked the woman who takes in my mail to hold them until such time as my daughter can pick them up and open them and scan them to me. (I won't ask the neighbor who takes in the mail to do the scanning--she has a good heart but can't keep anyone's personal business to herself. If she sees my income and such, I might as well ask the local newspaper to publish it.)
I don't trust the mail system to get my docs to me.
A) For me I wouldn't expect anyone to drive in snow and Ice. Nothing in the mail today other than medication is that important and as the pharmacist said to a neighbor - if you got your drugs the old fashion way you would have them.
What budget cuts? It's been Christmas time tempo of operations since March of 2020, 12 hour days 6 days a week with a quarter of the time under time and a half and double pay overtime. And no staff is coming for the uniform wage that the USPS pays in the lower 48 to maintain that tempo. COVID or a broken leg when a carrier goes down the delivery unit runs out of man hours so many no longer deliver letters 6 days a week even if Congress demands it.
Watch the DC representative Holmes Norton site as she reprints the official explanation from that USPS district manager to her congressional inquiries on service failures
I complained about lack of mail on a good day, and tossed them that quote. They said it belonged to the Pony Express so tough luck! It's just gotten worse since.
I complained about lack of mail on a good day, and tossed them that quote. They said it belonged to the Pony Express so tough luck! It's just gotten worse since.
It wasn't the Pony Express, but think about that. The Pony Express was only in existence for 18 months. Maybe weather didn't stop them, but lack of money sure did.
This thread is the first time I ever heard of it connected with them. Anyway--
It wasn't the Pony Express, but think about that. The Pony Express was only in existence for 18 months. Maybe weather didn't stop them, but lack of money sure did.
This thread is the first time I ever heard of it connected with them. Anyway--
The thing is that the Pony Express didn't make last mile delivery and those planes,trains and trucks do their courier duties in all types of conditions where as someone trying to determine which box a piece goes in does need light as the gloom of night makes the job impossible without technology
The mail didn't come the last two days here. But with a foot of snow, I wouldn't expect it to. There's nothing that important being delivered that I feel the postman needs to risk his life. The streets are pretty cleared now, so I'm sure it'll be delivered tomorrow.
Especially true nowadays...not many bills and even less personal mail. Sometimes prescription meds do come by mail but usually those are refilled automatically with a little lead time built in.
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and mail service between the two countries is simply horrible. People mailed me Christmas cards in mid-December that arrived in late January. The woman who is taking in my mail sent me my new car registration the day after Christmas. It got here almost four weeks later. 
