[Dx-qsl] Air Mailing delivery times

[Tom Anderson]

Fellow DXers:

FYI

While sitting in the surgeon's waiting room for my XYL Cheryl (WY5H and
yes she is a DXer with 334 on phone) today to get the stitches out of
her hand after recent carpal tunnel surgery I came upon the following
information in the Nov/Dec issue of "National Geographic Traveler"
magazine concerning airmail times from various locales around the world
to the USA.  In their test the magazine had correspondents send airmail
letters/postcards to their Washington D.C. headquarters and mailing
times were based on postmarks. They did not list actual cost of air mail
just mailing times.

The results:

Nairobi Kenya 22 days; Johannesburg South Africa 21 days; Cusco Peru 18
days; Bali Indonesia 12 days; Bol Croatia 12 days; Hong Kong China 11
days; Katmandu Nepal 9 days; Paris France 9 days; Reykjavik Iceland 7
days; Amsterdam Netherlands 7 days; Toronto Canada 6 days; and Bozeman
Montana 3 days (not exactly DX unless you need MT for Worked All
States).

The magazine did not say if they did a reverse mailing from the USA back
to these same countries.  I can tell you when I was in London in the
summer of 1995 my XYL would send me air mail letters from Dallas/Fort
Worth and they often arrived in 3 days.

Also I was in my local USPS office today buying some more air mail
stamps and I asked the clerk if there was an air mail postage increase
in the mill and he said not as far as they have been advised.

73 es good DX 
de Tom, WW5L
Colleyville TX