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Originally Posted by j.p.s
That's been happening for decades, even for standard size envelope first class letters. It has its own (perverse) logic. They quit sorting outgoing mail at local post offices and only sort at processing centers. That resulted in very local first class mail delivery times taking at least a one day hit.
Forget interstate, I live in a town midway between two large cities less than 100 miles apart. If I send a letter to my own town, it goes to the city to the north then back to my town. If I send a letter to the next town in the direction of the other city, it goes to the city to the north, then the other city, then to the town whose border is only a few blocks away. (The entire space between the cities is filled in with suburbs.) This allowed USPS to greatly reduce the number of employees and macines doing mail sorting.
My reference to fiction was because some of my packages supposedly made multiple large trips all over the country in very short times.
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We also lost our closest processing center so even local mail now goes out of town to be processed and then comes back. I remember the good old days when the post office actually had a separate collection box for local mail so if you mailed something to an address in your own town it would get there the next day.