Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001)

Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by irrational on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:28AM (#16793826)

England is only approximately 400x300 miles. That's tiny. I'm not really surprised mail could get anywhere in the same day.

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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by craftyguy on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:43AM (#16793976)

Here in the US, you'd be lucky if 1) your letter to someone across the same city gets there in a day (not even same day, but 24hrs) and 2) if the USPS doesn't lose, destroy, or deliver it to the wrong address.

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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by 13of40 on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:20PM (#16794945)

A couple of years ago I had some paperwork I had to mail from a Seattle suburb to the state capitol in Olympia. Thought it would be a good idea to pay $5 and send it express, "overnight". Express came with an SMS option, which I signed up for, so for the next week I was getting texts about how it had made another incremental hop from one warehouse to the next...

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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by ubernostrum on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:45PM (#16794639)

You do know that private delivery services intermingle heavily with USPS, right?

FedEx and UPS both use USPS services (a lot of "last mile" work), and also both provide services to USPS (contracts to carry mail by air).

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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by craftyguy on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:11PM (#16794876)

I fail to see how that makes my previous comment invalid..

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