Should I mail this job application to Chicago from the UK or Austin?

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I have a job application which must arrive in Chicago by Friday. Assuming I can find a post office at Gatwick then I can mail it Airsure from Gatwick in the U.K. tomorrow morning (Monday). I would say that if I do this it has a 50/50 chance of making it to Chicago by Friday. Or I can mail it from Austin on Tuesday. I have no idea how long USPS takes to move stuff around the continental U.S. If it's better to use UPS or FedEx or whatever, then I have no idea how I get my package in their system.

So what is my best option? Details very welcome if you vote Austin. You have ninety minutes to comply.

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Gatwick	3
Austin	2

― caek, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

Airsure: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?catId=400033&mediaId=400034

― caek, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

UPS/Fed Ex

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

why am i trapped inside this weird box

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

Mail from US.

― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

Send via FedEx overnight once you get to the US. Kinkos/FedEx shops are relatively easy to find in any semi-urban area. It'll cost you about $12-$14 for overnight, but you can guarantee it'll get there next day. There might be a 2-day option that is cheaper too, but I've never had to do that.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

Mail it from Austin and pay just a bit more to send it priority or FedEx it.

― Maria :D, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

priority is probably not necessary, but pretty cheap so why not?

― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

England. When we hire (for faculty positions), we're not very strict on when apps arrive. And mail from the UK seems important, despite our jaded cosmopolitan ways.

― at once ultrahip and painfully earnest (Euler), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

Hmm. Thanks for the details, jon, that's exactly what I need if I'm to mail it in the U.S. But Euler makes an interesting point. I guess if the deadline is Friday they wouldn't look at anything until Monday anyway.

― caek, Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 10 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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