A slow boat from China :)

My postcard from Evert arrived. Nope, he didn't send it from China, from Vienna. But I think they put it on a boat TO China, then airplane here! :D

*Yipee*

Sigh.. I sent it about a month ago! Finnish post delivers letters to usa in 4-10 days :) Compare to that.. And it costed over 1 € to send each there if iremember right, not sure. Ít was more than in Finland anyway. http://www.posti.fi/english/rates.html

That must have been sent to wrong place. Did I write the address clearly?

Ah, they must have routed it through Georgetown! It often takes two weeks for my mail to get to Austin, 20 miles down the freeway and the central processing location for all of our mail. But if I send it to San Antonio from Austin after 5 PM, it will be delivered the next morning most of the time. I think you just got g'towned!

Evert, I can't read the postmark, it is very faint over the stamps (my dad, a stamp collector, really appreciated the stamps :) but cheer up: a letter my parents sent from China took 3 1/2 months to arrive here! It really did come on a slow boat. It is usually 2-3 weeks when they send mail from Europe to arrive here. The postal centers are the holdups I think; most mail arriving from Europe coming to this state goes to/through the irradiation unless marked otherwise. Then that takes extra time because it must be hand-sorted. I am just guessing about this, but piecing a lot of things together leads to this conclusion. Almost all mail in/out of this state gets irradiated because that equipment is in this state (that is what I was told by local postal workers), and all going to east coast does anyway, regardless of where it is coming from.

Really makes me wonder when they are going to catch the anthrax terrorist. Not only caused lots of innocent people to get sick and die, but cost an enormous amount of money, many people lost their jobs, and now almost everyone in the country is having mail difficulties. All because of one or a couple severely disturbed people.

My DH works for the company that is cleaning up the anthrax, he is an accountant. You wouldn't believe what this is costing us. THe post offic in New Jersey is still shut down. They have had a really hard time getting the anthrax all cleaned up.

Whoever did this certainly did a job on us.

Naturegal, sure is good to know (even secondhand) someone who is doing their best to help us out. I am not meaning to complain about any of the postal services, I know everyone is doing their best to get our country out of this disaster. But whoever is responsible for sending the stuff in the first place needs to be caught and punished. Give your DH my appreciation for his work. Without them, whatever would we do?

Until the anthrax mailings, I had never thought about how mail got from me to wherever. I knew it was done with automated sorting equipment (I used to run a reader/sorter at banks similar to the kind the PO uses) but had no clue the whole process. Now with a couple of the major centers shut (I think one in DC is still closed too) everyone is having slow mail service.