USPS Delivers

"SKOWHEGAN — It was the two-cent stamp that first gave it away.

A letter, postmarked Houlton, Maine, in the summer of 1931, finally made it this past week to Pittsfield from where it originally had been sent — 83 years ago.

The nine-page letter, written in ink in luxuriant cursive, was penned by then-23-year-old Miriam McMichael, a school teacher, to her mother, Dollena McMichael, who lived on Peltoma Avenue in Pittsfield.

Miriam’s niece and Dollena’s granddaughter, Ann MacMichael, 69, said part of the irony of the mystery letter is her aunt’s apology for taking so long to write to her mother, . . . ."

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Ref: Kennebec Morning Sentinel

That is a nice story.
It happens. Tons of mailings are delivered on time.

2 cents in 1931 would be worth 31 cents today. With all the cost saving technology available to our government run postal service, you would think that they would be moving a letter for under 20 cents, but instead it costs 49 cents.

Here's our government again turning a dollar into 33 cents.

[For the record: DonDiego thought this is just a pleasant little piece about a long-lost letter. NO political statement was intended. Oh, . . . and over his lifetime poor old DonDiego has had remarkably few problems with the USPS.]

My letters always arrive safe and sound.

Airmail in 1931 was five cents, or the equivalent of about $0.77 today. So the effective postage rate back then was about 50% higher than today. Of course my data point is as meaningless as Boilerman's, but at least it's honest.

I use USPS whenever I can!
if I buy stuff on Ebay,I scream at the seller for only offering ups or fed-ex delivery!
USPS is great and they deliver on Saturdays.
UPS SUCKS.

I just called up Amazon and told them I'm canceling Prime if they use USPS. My letter carrier forgot to take my package out of the truck and then claimed an authorized recipient was not available to receive the package. I was home all day. Went to work the next day the package was left on my porch. USPS screws things up all the time. UPS very rarely.

Surprised is wasn't stamped "Postage Due"

According to my customers, a payment sent to me is lost at least on a weekly basis.