I received a letter today mailed from about 60 miles away.

[Ptah]

How long do you think it took to arrive?

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	3 days
	12 (29%)
	1 week
	20 (49%)
	1 month
	2 (5%)
	2 months
	7 (17%)
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[True Dough]

1. Not a fair question to ask

until we know whether those were 60 land miles or nautical miles.

[Ptah]

2. It traveled 270 land miles.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Also depends on the airspeed of a laden messenger pigeon.

[Ptah]

3. hint: It was not by pony express

[Doc_Technical]

5. Depends whether the address was handwritten or typed.

The Post Office optical character reader has difficulty
reading the former.

[malthaussen]

6. Normally, I'd say 3 days tops...

... but these are not normal times.

A friend of mine lived in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky one summer in the '50s. There were still two mail deliveries a day then. She put a request for a song from the local DJ in the morning post one day -- and the song was played that evening.

-- Mal

[Ptah]

7. The letter was in the post office in Dragoon early Monday, Dec. 1

It was in my mail box in Tucson, Thursday, Dec 4.
The address was hand written
It was postmarked Dec. 3, in Phoenix.

[Nittersing]

8. When I moved to Colorado and my folks were in NJ

My dad would write me a letter every week. (I have a box full of them) They, routinely, arrived in two days.

I just got a Thanksgiving card from my cousin in NH. Took TWO WEEKS!!

[Kali]

9. ha!

now do a poll on how long it took me to see this?

[Ptah]

10. I like the rubber stamp on the envelope:

[Kali]

11. my sister found it in my Mother's desk

and gifted it to me with a new ink pad. she was also the source of the stickers and freaks out when I don't have nice napkins at brandings. I tend to use a roll of paper towels.