cookies!

last week commenced my cookie-sending test of the us postal service. now i think i've made it pretty clear on here before that i love the postal service. i really, really do. i think they're quick, efficient and provide an awesome service. i mean, they deliver mail to your house six days a week. i absolutely love it. and when i mailed zombie and ninja, i learned that first class mail from here to anywhere in indiana will make overnight. and that's just amazing.

so i mailed three boxes of cookies on tuesday. they were too heavy to mail first class, so i paid for priority mail. (my other option was parcel post, which didn't save me more enough money to outweigh the difference in time.) the in-state delivery, again, was overnight. fresh cookies - whee! the next-state delivery was either overnight or two-day. again, fresh cookies - whee! the box that went to west coast? unfortunately, that's a little harder to gauge. according to the usps estimates, it should have been two- to three-day delivery, which would have had them there before the weekend. but i got confirmation from the recipient that he got them on monday. ummm ... week-old cookies? not so whee. even if he did devour the entire box in one day without sharing.

i really doubt that was pokiness by the usps, though. my guess is he wasn't in the office to get them when they arrived. next time, i'll send them on a monday, priority mail, and pay for tracking/delivery confirmation. if, indeed, it's too slow for fresh cookies ... yikes. i may need to find another option. guaranteed overnight is expensive!

but for now, another gold star to the usps. well done, folks. well done.