Anyone remember mail order?

agile_1 said:
Mail order - via USPS, the United States Postal Sevice - who according to rumor, will soon be stopping Saturday package deliveries.

Yes, there was a time when they were the only game in town outside of a few specialized delivery services. There was a time big brown (UPS) was rare and independent truckers did the deliveries that the USPS didn't do.
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It's letters that are not going to be delivered on Saturday. Packages still are to be delivered.
 
Daniel Dorn said:
I've Mail-Ordered from all 3 of these. Yeah, 3 weeks minimum even back in the 90's.

As a child, my mother used to order stuff through "Fingerhut" catalogues. I'd ordered marbles, tiny solar flashlights, Swiss Army "Style" knives, and other stuff from their 88 cent pages. I know my brothers and I drove our mother crazy asking when it was going to get here.
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That brought back memories.

My mother used to order from Fingerhut too. I remember her ordering a set of pots and another time a vacuum cleaner..
I had an account with them in the 80's too.
 
Here's a nail biter, I just now completed a trade with a fellow from Canada.
I shipped my knife on 3/2, and he shipped his on 3/4.
I got my knife on 3/7, and he just got his last night.
That knife sat in Canadian Customs for 8 days with no tracking updates!
 
mwerner said:
"Back in 1897, when Jaques Carpentier use to go up to Great Bear Lake for lake trout, he liked to take along a handful of these famous, hand-made spoons he'd brought with him from Finland. These proved so effective for lake trout that to this very day we have them hammered out by Norwegian blacksmiths using only hand tools...."
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This really reminds me of those old j peterman catalogs - I wonder if peterman got the idea from Herters?
 
I do remember mail order. The time it once took to order and receive anything was, I think, one of the reasons why brick-and-mortar stores used to thrive. Now I can have whatever I want, from practically anywhere in the world, in just a few days. I'm not sure that's a good thing all the time, but it sure is convenient.

SP
 
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