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A subcribed weekly newspaper from NW WI can take 1-3 weeks to get to Colorado Springs. CO. It can also take a week to go just 50 miles.
If the processing center in NJ is small and doesn_t get much mail for IL it won_t send a tray directly to the town. It may send it to the district. For example.. let_s say you are mailing to the 612 zip code. This is the Quad City area of IL and is processed by Des Moines or Cedar Rapids or the Quad City plant.
So the processing center may not get very much mail for that area so they may consolidate the mail and your mail could go to any of the above locations. If it comes to Des Moines (where I work) we send it to the Quad Cities plant the night that we receive it. And then the Quad Cities will process the mail the next day and it will generally be delivered the following day.
Lots of variables, but keep in mind that the mail moves 24/7, so that 2 or 3 days is calendar days not weekdays. This is true at all of the above plants, so when your mail will move all weekend long. Since your mail is going to Chicago, the mail should have flown straight into Chicago and could be delivered on Monday.
Of course if the address is hard to read it can take longer because most mail -- including hand-written addresses -- are processed entirely by machine.
Sorry if this is waaaay too much information.
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