How long snail mail

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Now, with record numbers of voters expected to mail their ballots, the pressure is on. So, we tested the Postal Service, stuffing, stamping and mailing letter-sized envelopes to a centrally-located post office box that we rented. We fanned out across Bexar County, dropping our letters in home mailboxes, cluster boxes, USPS blue boxes and post office mail slots.

We even handed a few directly to friendly mail carriers making their rounds. How long should it take? The USPS website says first class mail takes one to three business days.

On day three, we got mail, but only 22 of our envelopes — plus one that did not belong to us. It took three more mail delivery days to receive the bulk of our letters — 74 of them came on day six. Another four arrived even later on the seventh business day. We did not count Sunday or Columbus Day because there was no mail delivery on those days. The Postal Service did pick up our letters promptly, postmarking them the same day - except for one that was mailed from a neighborhood box on the southeast side of town.

It was mailed on Oct. It appeared to make no difference in speed if a letter was dropped off at a Post Office. You can send really nice cards in minutes without leaving your home. Postable will print, address and mail them for you.

So unlike email, snail mail takes a bit longer to deliver. While this is usually true, in our experience it can take up to 7 days for the cards to arrive. This of course, is mostly outliers but it does happen from time to time.

While the regular business day time frame normally accounts for all snail mail delivery times, the holiday rush is a different story.