Many HML (like us) will give you POF letter in a day, a decision in less than a week.    

WE had in my day a lot of juice with our title company and trusted us.. 

There is a lot more pressure from producers that need to fill their ever expanding newscasts to turn as many stories a day as possible.I like to use Uber as an example because it was making a lot of headlines.

People that stay at my STR basically want a place to sleep and are out and about during the day. A

Access to cash value can be within a day as most insurance companies will do a ACH transfer in a policy loan up to the entire amount of your cash value.

Even confirming the showing the same day as the showing, we had no shows.  

Every day, a typical wealthy gambler (many many of these gamblers in the world come to Las Vegas) would bring $3 million to $5 million bank roll for gambling in casino. 

As for your Post Office jobs, those aren't that easy to get as you imagine and you usually start out as a part time worker, often a rural driver working one day a week and on call the rest of the time.

These laws mainly pertain to AC in the summer, heat in the winter, running water, plumbing, etc. the correct course of action would to have been to call an appliance repair person on the same day as the complaint...the repair man probably would have been out to the house within 48 hours to diagnose.

Saw one listing that said the property could only be shown like one day a week from 2-5 PM.