While reading a rant in the pit about the USPS hiking their rates again, and subsequently reading all the replies about how well the USPS works, I thought of an interesting little experiment.
My thoughts ran along these lines:
Get a group of dopers from all across the country (world?) to sign up. If the group was small enough, have each person send a business size envelope with a note in it saying where/who it was from to each other person in the group. If the group was too large, then assign each person to send out two or three. Preferably all letters would be sent on the same day. We could post departure and arrival dates, and see exactly how long it takes a letter to go from NYC to LA or Dallas to Minneapolis. Sounded interesting to me at least.
Then I got to thinking, I’ve heard of mail fraud. I don’t think this is it, because they’re getting their money, and I’m not telling people in the letter to send ME anything…
So, fellow teeming millionses, anyone know anything about this?
NOTE: I’m not proposing to do this in this thread, I realize that is more of an IMHO thing…if there are no objections and someone wants to go ahead and start it, go for it.