Your Mail is Vacationing in Birmingham

 

Perhaps you've read that Alabama is the state most behind in mail delivery in the Southeast. Even if you haven't read that tidbit, it probably comes as no surprise to you. One of our bloggers has related that an expected package has been sitting in the Birmingham hub for six days. How nice - an all expenses paid week's vacation for your eagerly awaited merchandise.

It just gets worse. An informed source with a local post office has related that it received no packages for two days during the past week; mail transport from Birmingham usually runs seven days a week. Our informant didn't see it getting better anytime soon.

Just to put things in perspective, if this were 1820, we'd be waiting two months for that dress from the London modiste or boots from the Edinburgh souter. Now we have to wait three months to get that Baby Yoda from Shanghai.