Is it common for letters to get lost/discarded in the us?
Because I sent a letter on Monday this week and I'm deathly afraid it won't reach it's destination. I sent a letter to another state.
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No | 9 | |
I'm not from the US | 9 |
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Because I sent a letter on Monday this week and I'm deathly afraid it won't reach it's destination. I sent a letter to another state.
Yes | 3 | |
No | 9 | |
I'm not from the US | 9 |
No it isn't common. Obviously mistakes happen in a system that large, but the mail service is pretty dependable. Depending on where it was sent from and were it was going, most out of state letters will take 2 to 4 days for delivery. If your letter was mailed on Monday, which was a national holiday, it would have been picked up on Tuesday. That means it will likely get delivery today, tomorrow, or Saturday. If you mail things to that address a lot and it didn't arrive as fast as it normally does and that is why you are concerned, that Monday holiday could be the reason.
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As far as I know, I've never sent (or been sent) a letter that didn't arrive. Letters sent to a local address almost always used to arrive the next delivery day; past few years I've noticed local delivery sometimes takes two days instead of one. But they do arrive.