As of April 22, there were still two letters that could not be accounted for.
A letter to rural Virginia arrived April 13 a letter to Washington, D.C., took another three days. A little over half of our letters arrived within the three-day window.īy Friday of that week, much of our mail had arrived, but there were still ten letters wandering around the country looking for their addressees. The Postal Service did not pass our test. The experiment was designed to recreate what might be the experience of an ordinary user of the U.S. The letters were addressed to residents of large cities, suburbs and small towns.
Postal Service advertises that first-class mail - your average letter with a 55 cent stamp - arrives within “1-3 business days.” That is an official standard set by the Postal Service.Įditors, reporters and producers at GBH News sent nearly 100 letters from different places in the metro area at various hours on the same day to correspondents of their own choosing in 38 states, creating a random sample. It took 14 days for that envelope to make the trip. Nearly three weeks later, that letter has not arrived.Īnother GBH News editor sent a letter the same day to Berkley, Michigan, from the massive Fort Point Channel post office. The letter was addressed to a family member in Memphis, Tennessee. Post Office in Central Square in Cambridge.
On Monday morning April 5, a GBH News editor dropped a letter into a mailbox outside the U.S. Data visual produced by Lauren Jo Alicandro/GBH News
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