wow, I purchased some $10 connectors from China, they took about 5 business days to get to my home address, yet it takes 10 days to send a letter 15 miles??? me thinks the USPS is slacking a bit some times. I mail my rent check on the first of the month, the landlord has called a few times asking where the check was. I drove to his house wrote a fresh check, stopped payment on the old one and then 2 days later the first check showed up. This was 16 days after I sent it, yet it had the correct post mark on the envelope.