On Tuesday, Sept. 15, I paid $36 to send a small box containing a Minnesota Vikings jersey from Watertown to Rapid City by two-day mail guaranteed to arrive Sept. 17. It arrived Sept. 21.
By then, U.S. Postal Service tracking information indicated it had traveled some 1,500 miles: from Watertown to Huron, Fargo, West Fargo, possibly Clearwater, Minnesota, Sioux Falls, then back to Huron, Fargo, Wes…