Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The postal service is indeed backlogged -- I won't get started here about how long regular mail takes internationally from the US nowadays -- and that also has consequences for how things land in Philadelphia with State getting started, but sometime the online status being "not found" at some points in the process doesn't mean a whole lot in terms of how much longer the process will take.
Maybe I lucked out? I mailed a regular 1st class letter from NYC to Asia mid-March and it took 2 weeks. Domestic Priority mail taking 2 weeks is an abomination.