Coincidences are not always the business of chance, for sometimes fate plays a heavy role. Take my lack of an agent dilemma. Friday marks eight weeks since submitting the manuscript with no answer in sight, despite a nudge. The absence of a reply is a reply. A passive reply, in my opinion, but a reply nonetheless.
So before I go cry me a river, I check my mailbox. A letter sent months ago suddenly appeared. A request from an agent for the first 50 pages and a synopsis.
How you like them coincidences, eh? 
Go get ‘em Sam!
So it took months for this letter to show up in your mailbox? Even for snail mail, that’s slow. But congrats! and good luck!
Mail that passes through NYC is anywhere from two days to months. Once a letter gets in the bowels of the USPS NYC anything is possible.
You think that’s bad…you should see how the FL post offices operate….. they think they’re on island time or something! It once took me 4 months to get a package from PA. No kiddin’! Thought they lost it and just wrote it off then one day it just showed up. It’s a conspiracy I tell ya!
Technically by post office standards, Media mail is never lost, merely in transit.