U.S. Postal Website: Nothing you need. Everything you don't.

Information I sought, but did not find on the USPS website:
On average, how long will it take a standard envelope sent by first class mail to get from my post office in Arlington, VA to Cincinnati, OH where my health insurance bill is due in two days?

Purpose of information sought:
To determine whether it was necessary to pay painfully high fees to send said health insurance bill by express overnight mail.

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Information I found, but did not seek on the USPS website [abridged version]:

9.3.2 Day-Old Poultry
Live day-old chickens, ducks, geese, partridges, pheasants (pheasants may be mailed only from April through August), guinea fowl, quail, and turkeys are acceptable in the mail only if packaged in accordance with hatchery regulations and mailed promptly.

9.3.3 Small Cold-Blooded Animals
Small, harmless, cold-blooded animals (except snakes and turtles) that do not require food or water or attention during handling in the mail and that do not create sanitary problems or obnoxious odors are mailable (e.g., baby alligators and caimans not more than 20 inches long, bloodworms, earthworms, mealworms, salamanders, leeches, lizards, snails, and tadpoles).

9.3.10 Live Scorpions
Live scorpions that are to be used for medical research or the manufacture of antivenin are accepted only in the continental surface mail when packaged in a double mailing container, both parts of which are closed or fastened to prevent escape of the scorpions. The inner container must be of material that cannot be punctured by the scorpions and must be plainly marked "Live Scorpions."

9.3.8 Bees
Bees are acceptable in the continental surface mail when shipped under federal and state regulations. Only queen honeybees may be shipped via air transportation. Each queen honeybee shipped via air transportation may be accompanied by up to eight attendant honeybees.

Relevance of information:
None. Yet when I searched for postal delivery schedule information, this was one of the pages to which I was directed. Very useful.

Well, at least I now know to wait until April to ship my pheasants, that indeed I may ship my 2- inch baby alligator but not my pet turtle, and that should I decide to send my queen honeybee for a vacation in Florida, she may only travel with her 8 most handsome male escorts.