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What is the likelyhood statistically of a USPS mail delivery failure?
If someone sends a letter from Temecula California, to San Diego California which is less than 100 miles away, it seems like delivery would be extremely reliable, like 1 in a 1000 failures for a small letter. But someone said they sent a check, and it never showed up! I'm trying to find the statistics for that.
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- demos_jonesLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
The old "check's in the mail" routine, eh? I don't have any statistics, but I've lived in a dozen different states over my 60 years, and I've only experienced a non-delivery of something I mailed out twice in all those years. (One of which really was a check, and showed up a year later crumpled and stained.) For all the stories told, the USPS seems to be incredibly reliable in actuality. I'd actually have to guess that it's more like 1 in a million failure rate, but that doesn't change the 1 in a million that it actually happens to.
