Why is the post office sending letters so slow?

Maybe you met a letter from an unreliable post office in a remote area. As far as my own writing experience for more than ten years is concerned, the speed of sending letters by post office is much slower than that by express delivery, but it is actually not particularly slow. Compared with the ancient post station, I don't know how many people go through writing letters. I think it is quite normal for a letter to arrive in seven days.

My coordinate is Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and I live in a township. There happens to be a post office in the town, so when I send a letter, I have to go to the post office to deliver it to the mailbox. I started writing letters when I was about eight to ten years old. At first, I sent a letter to the solicitation address of the primary school daily, but I didn't receive a reply, so I wrote to my little pen pal on the daily newspaper. I really got to know some pen pals, and started writing letters and making contacts.

My pen pal is from the same city, and they are not far apart. According to the date at the end of her reply, it will take me about three days to get the letter. Maybe it's used in the express delivery industry, and this speed has been complained, and it may have closed down in the fierce competition ...

But you know, it was more than ten years ago, and the express delivery industry was not born, let alone sending things to villages and towns ...

So I'm quite satisfied with their speed of delivering letters.

Later, the scope of my letters began to expand slowly, and some friends began to go to other provinces and cities. At this time, it took longer. But it can usually be received within a week.

When I asked my uncle who had sent me letters for more than ten years, he introduced why the post office was so "slow" in sending letters. Because mail receives and delivers letters, unlike express delivery, there are many people in charge. Maybe there are only one or two people in charge of letters in a town, so he is responsible for delivering letters for two hours every morning and afternoon. The mail is received by opening the mailbox at the specified time, summarizing the letters, sorting them by hand, and sending them to different regional shunting vehicles. For example, waiting in the same city, in different places, and across provinces ... and then sending the letters out to the cities that need to receive them ... And when you get there, you also need to pass them on layer by layer, until you reach the most basic post office, there is a special postman who is responsible for delivering the letters ... < P > In fact, the postage for sending letters is very low, only 8 cents in the same city, only one yuan in the city, and more than one piece across provinces ...

but the express delivery industry has developed very rapidly in recent years, and their changes are also changing with each passing day. They can pick you up at home almost at any time. There are so many express freight cars that go back and forth between cities every day, and even there is an air plane at every turn ...

Postal services also have such services, but mainly in express parcels and EMS, and the charges are the same as express delivery. So, don't just blame the slow delivery of letters. If you want to be quick, you can send them by express or EMS express.