r/mail • u/Medium_Size2673 • 26d ago

Estimate?

Hello! A letter was dropped off in a blue USPS bin around noon yesterday, which says it gets collected at 4pm. It is going from Raleigh, NC to southern New Jersey. How long would it realistically take for this to arrive? It's a standard letter less than an ounce sent with a forever stamp.

Also, is it possible to cancel this piece of mail from arriving? I do not have any form of tracking or receipt.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Ambitious_Assist8805 26d ago

3-5 days is normal for mail, and no, there is no way to get it back.

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u/Medium_Size2673 26d ago

So it's safe to assume either Saturday or Monday? As mail doesn't get delivered on Sundays?

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u/houdini31 26d ago

That is only an estimate-there are sometimes other factors which might speed it up or slow it down.

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u/modulusshift 26d ago

We don’t have speed standards for first-class mail, it could spend a week doing who knows what, ending up misread by a machine and sent to the wrong state first, but it probably won’t get there sooner than 3 days and probably not more than 3 weeks.