My fastest card amazed me … three days from Nantucket island, USA to near Washington, DC. Dropped the card at the Post Office before the 1PM (13.00) Saturday closing time. Next two days were a Sunday followed by a Monday legal holiday, so there should have been little, if any, mail processing I would have thought. Normally, I’d expect mail like that to take four or five business days rather than next delivery day.
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I doubt I would receive a card within a day, even if I addressed it to myself 
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Haha, I’ve sent cards to myself and they all took 4 - 6 days!
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I live in Hungary and several times I have found that when I post a card to someone in Germany and one to my friend living in a different city in Hungary, the postcard arrives sooner to Germany than it does within the country. My friend and I have experiemented with this a bit and we got the same result almost every time. So much for domestic mail in Hungary
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A travel time of 0 or 1 days is impossible nowadays, but in the past it was possible when mail traveled faster within my own country. Today, it can take almost two weeks before the mail reaches a neighboring town. So pathetic! Sending a postcard is faster abroad (e.g. Netherlands or UK takes 3-4 days) than within my own country.
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Not a postcard and not Postcrossing, but a few weeks ago I sent a letter to a penpal. Distance about 500 km. I put it in the mailbox at about 9:45 p.m., the box was emptied at 10 p.m.
On the next morning at about 7:45 a.m. my friend told that she got my letter.
I was really surprised. But this shows me it’s possible to get a 0 days travel time (as it is less than 12 hours).
Nevertheless, the chance that this will really happen is probably very small.
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Traveltime Belgium - Poland = 0 days?
@JetteLise This is not related to this thread’s topic, but I just wanted to say thank you for sharing the link to the Belgium countdown! I completely forgot about that from the previous forum! I remember there was a section of that forum specifically for countdowns, but here it looks like the countdowns are in each community’s sub-forum. And it seems like the North America countdown hasn’t been updated for a while. But it’s fun that some countdowns are still taking place! 
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I had an official card I mailed from Nantucket island on Saturday morning. Sunday. Monday holiday. Tuesday, it was registered at an address near Washington, DC.
Finally I have 0 day. Yes, the recipient updated her address 3 hours after I got her address 
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Last Saturday this postcard arrived in my mailbox in only 1 DAY 
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Cards within Germany usually arrive the following day, so, yes, I have quite a few “1 day” cards - IF I manage to post them the very day I wrote them, that is …
I used to got the address from a China postcrosser and it was registered automatically after that. So, traveling time for this postcard is 0 day with no sending the real postcard.
That postcrosser has inactive nearly 2 years now.
I’m not sure that the system register automatically due to changing address or inactive user.
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