Send your cards the day after Thanksgiving!
It used to take 8 days to get to the Belleau Wood from Connecticut when we did a WESPAC, but that was 81
My sister used to bake a cake inside a coffee can, pull it out early, sprinkle a little yeast onit, then seal it, ship it to me via US MAIL, and it was still edible when I got it.
8 days to us, not sure what it was to them.
I took the time my last float to send my mail from the local post office in the country I was in, for the foreign stamps and the uniquness of foreign mail to family members.
And one cute blond girl I went to school with...I did it for her, too... :)