A few years ago I bought and sold a bunch of stuff through Ebay.
I sent a money-order to a seller by regular mail, it went across the U.S. in 3 days.
I sent another by priority mail because I wanted to make sure it got there quick.
It went across the U.S. in 3 weeks.
Other times, priority mail was OK, about the same as regular mail most of the time.
We sold all kinds of stuff and used regular mail to send it all over the world, everything got there in fine shape, including several boxes of antique vacuum tubes mailed to the far east.
[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 17 May 2005 at 01:38 PM.]