From a news story on FoxNews yesterday:

Pay More Dough, Get Mail Slow?

The U.S. Postal Service's much-advertised Priority Mail service, which

can cost up to 10 times the price of a first-class letter, is actually

slower. That's the conclusion from data submitted to the Postal Rate

Commission, and reported by the Wall Street Journal. It showed that a

typical piece of priority mail now takes more than a half-day longer to

arrive than a first-class letter. And the cheapest priority mail rate is

$3.50 — compared to a first-class letter rate of 34 cents. The Postal

Service now wants to raise the priority mail rate by an average of more

than 13 percent.