Removed.

[frawin]

What is amazing to me is that mail that is deposited in the Severy or Piedmont Post Offices reaches me in 2 days.  If it is mailed in Howard it is 3 to 5 days and if it is mailed on Rural Route, it sometimes takes even longer.  I believe the Independence mail goes to Ft. Scott and the Piedmont/Severy goes to Wichita.  Have no idea how it is handled after that.

mlw

[flo]

back in the 70's and early 80's when I worked at the school in Severy and reports, etc. needed mailed to the unified office in Howard, 11 miles mind you, it usually took 3 days + to get there.  Now with all this new automated equipment, higher postage, and more streamlined service, it sometimes takes a week for a letter to get from Severy to Howard, and vise versa.  AND when I worked at the Co-op from 1995-2005, there where letters mailed in Howard that NEVER DID get to Severy, and maybe come in a month after they were mailed cause I would check the post marks, and most of them had checks in them.  And this mailing a letter to someone in the same town and having it go out of town then come back is a bunch of government crap.  All those in favor of the pony express say AYE ! ! !

[Jo McDonald]

And they call it progress.  YEAH --- RIGHT !!!

[kfclark]

When I was on my mission in Italy. I served for a while on the island of Sardinia, in the small town of Quartu Sant Elena about 5 miles from the larger town of Cagliari. Letters from my mom in California typically came in seven days, but once I got a letter from Grandma Gladys that had been mailed only 4 days before and it was postmarked Howard.  I would bet that you could not "overnight" a letter that fast between those two small towns half a world apart.