<p>I know this is borderline obsessive, but you can calculate the shipping time to your home using UPS...</p>
<p>Chicago's zip code is 60637.</p>
<p>stop it.</p>
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<p>what's the point of this thread? we get our packages through ups?</p>
<p>US applicants will receive their notices via the US Postal Service. Unless Alabama employs armadillos for postal delivery (as they do in some parts of rural Texas), Christine will probably receive her letter on the third or fourth day after Libby says they were mailed. I would guess this means next week.</p>
<p>Darn...I thought someone said UPS. And then I got excited.</p>
<p>I read that it was UPS somewhere too... I must be off.</p>
<p>International acceptance packages are via courier. Last year's US letters were USPS - delivery times ranged from the following day in a couple of the Chicagoland neighhoods (sorry, don't recall which ones) to over a week in rural Texas.</p>
<p>how long should international packages take? (Hong kong to be specific)</p>
<p>For some odd reason the mail got to the Northwest faster last year than most any other place. I think ohio_mom is right, some areas of Texas were reported as the worst.</p>
<p>I guess I'll be checking my mailbox eagerly next week then. I wish California were next to Illinois.</p>
<p>I live in a metropolitan suburb of Chicago and received my EA decision the day that it was mailed.</p>
<p>Texas is bad. We are in Houston, and my son's acceptances for Chicago and other school consistently arrived late. Others would be posting for several days and it drove us slightly bonkers. But, if your mail arrives late, just remember what the Chicago admissions office told us.......fat acceptances in large envelopes tend to take longer to get to people than the skinny rejection letters!</p>
<p>Good luck, everybody!</p>