American Air mail and courier

Subject: American Air mail and courier
From: GUEST,Unknown person
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 02:32 AM

Dear friends:

Could you please tell me what happens with the American Air mail? I am expecting a memorabille from my aunt from the US. I am living in Italy. Do you know how long it will take for the item to reach me? I mean how many days delay will the air mail have?

Thanks.

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 02:35 AM

About 2 to 5 times slower plus 5 days.

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 01:28 PM

The US postal service is planning on raising rates AGAIN!

This is really for a good reason. Everyone knows how long delivery of every class except junk mail takes, and is expected to get worse. How else except rate raises do you think they can pay for the warehouse space for the mail that has to be held longer to create the new expected delivery times?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: Fortunato
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 01:48 PM

What state is your aunt in? Is the item a letter or a package?

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: Kim C
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 01:51 PM

Right now the mail is still trying to catch up. I sent an Express Mail on Monday, which is supposed to be 1-2 days when things are normal. They said it wasn't guaranteed, I said that was okay, but it has only got to its destination today.

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: GUEST,Unknown person
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 02:38 AM

The item is a package of course. DaveO what do you mean by saying "junk mail"??????????????????????????????????? I can see you write very clrearly.

Subject: RE: American Air mail and courier
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:32 PM

GUESTUnknown Person:

I have to assume you're not in the US; anyone here, I think, would recognize the term "junk mail". The Postal Service dislikes the term intensely, which I suppose is no surprise.

It means advertising circulars and the like, almost always unsolicited, addressed in huge numbers to names on large-scale mailing lists, or to "occupant" or the like. The Postal Service delivers this stuff at preferential low rates (no kidding), and the poor first-class mail user has to pay higher rates as a result.

Thank you for what I take to be a compliment.

Dave Oesterreich