Today in Heritage History, May 15, 1918, the U.S. Post Office Department begins its first regular airmail service, enabling it to now provide incompetent and rude services at twice the speed.
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May 15, 1918- Faster
15 Tuesday May 2012
Also enabled to raise stamp prices!
Now I get my mail faster delivered by a polite competent uniformed public servant. Am I in the right place?
Haha. I remember in Boston last year the lady refused to sell me an envelope I wanted. she flat out refused to sell it to me because she said I didn’t need it. I had wanted to send something home in it but she proceeded to talk me out of it..and I left without getting my mail sent or even getting an alternative means to send my post. strange experience!
Despite our criticisms I am still astonished and impressed and can’t imagine how they get bazillions of items delivered all over the place with such usual speed. Most people don’t know the pony express lasted only one year before the railroads took over. I recently bought a clock on ebay from a man in Greece and it took 3 weeks just to clear customs there before sent and took 3 months for an item mailed from Australia.
A couple months ago, I mailed out 10 separate autographed copies of my book from my local post office in central Pennsylvania. 2 days later, one of them was delivered to my editor in Texas. On day 5, a friend in Maryland got hers. (Less than 50 miles from my house). On day 16, one was delivered in Kansas, and on day 22 another delivered to a different friend in the same kansas town. 7 out of 10 books arrived at their destinations in less than a month. 2 of the 10 are still unaccounted for, at least 60 days later.
Yay USPS!
Yeah…. Still waiting on mine… Maybe the ship sank?
Sammie didn’t get hers either, despite the fact that two other people in Kansas did…
Naww, Mrs Rifle would be devastated…