According to our recent spot-check, local delivery is no snail mail. We scattered 10 letters addressed to our Bay Street office. They arrived the next day. If it is dropped in the mail today, it should be at its destination tomorrow. Palmer is quick to point out that this policy stops short at the county line - he can't force speedy deliveries on other post offices in other counties and states.
Commercial airlines deliver first class mail to cities across the country.
Postal service planes deliver packages and letters for priority mail. And weather conditions play a big role in prompt delivery. But last week, Palmer and his employees had total control of those 10 white envelopes. The letters were just a handful of the 650,000 pieces of mail the main Savannah branch processed that day. We usually put a cancellation on 250,000 parcels a night.