Package has been heading this way all week, 'delivery will be Sept. 6 by 9pm'. At 9 last night it had 'reached the main city facility and was being prepared for delivery'.
Now, it says 'departed the St. Louis facility'- which is where it STARTED- 'early this morning'. And there's no 'delivery by' date. Which makes me think they either lost it, or messed up where it was/is, or flat don't know where the hell it is.
Yeah, they can be just bloody wonderful...
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The worst instance of that was when I ordered a new-old-stock CPU for a PC I was upgrading. I tracked it from China and could see it's every move, until USPS got hold of it in Albany. After almost a month after clearing customs, it just magically arrived in my mailbox. No notice it shipped or was on its way.
Most times I will find a different supplier on eBay if their only option is USPS.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I always laugh at the USPS tracking numbers. Like you said, the number just means "we don't know".
I only use the postal orifice for insured*, signature required, return reciept packages, and even then I pray that it gets there.
* for when that value is more than UPS or FedEx will insure.
John in Indy
I had a package start out in OKC, OK. Made its way down to Orlando, bounced back and forth there, then went to Jacksonville, FL. Made a couple of bounces in J'ville, then, next update, it was received in Orlando. From there, went back to OKC, back to Orlando, then J'ville before it finally made its way to my mailbox. Took about two weeks for a trip that has been three to four days in the past. Must be all those DEI hires under Biden.
A friend sent me a gift. The following is the routing.
Her town to Tampa to Indianapolis to Louisiana to Salt Lake City to New Orleans (where it sat for one week) to Las Vegas driven to Phoenix than my area then my closest post office.
The routing of a gift from Idaho brother took a similar corkscrew tour of the country.
My gift to a different brother (total distance a 5 hour drive) still hasn't arrived to his area after two weeks.
What pisses me off is that several times I lived where they have gang mail boxes on the street, so you have to walk down the street and open your lil box to get the mail. I would receive USPS postcards that read Sorry, we missed you. You did not miss me. I was sitting in my home office waiting for that delivery, your fat lazy A$$ did not want to walk up to my house. You know how I know you didn't even try to do your job, because the card would have been left on my front door if you had cared to do your job.
Pre tracking number, but sister sent mortgage documents I needed to sign USPS overnight signature , 5 days later I got Them
A set of important machinery manuals sent to a customer in Louisiana last year made about the same ricochetting path as GunnyFrank and Rick's did. Back and forth and forth and back from small-town Central Kansas to Wichita to Kansas City to Baton Rouge back to Kansas City, Wichita and small-town Central Kansas with a couple bounces to and from Wichita before Kansas City and Baton Rouge and then Lafayette and all the way back again TWICE MORE before I called the small-town Central Kansas postmistress and asked for help. She somehow got it straightened out forthwith and the delivery was finally made.
The customer promptly lost the box, but that's another story.
For several years I used to get other people's mail. I'm out in the sticks and the correct box was usually within a half mile, so I would just deliver it. Knock on the door and hand it to them. It's a good way to meet a neighbor i guess. Makes me wonder how many times my stuff was put in the wrong box and just tossed in the trash. I haven't gotten anyone else's mail in so long I forgot about it until I was reading this. YaKnow, considering the mountains of stuff they handle it's surprising they manage to get as much right as they do. The bills seem to get here Just Fiiine,, and the stuff I don't even open,, straight to the burn barrel. I have ordered stuff that never got here, but I don't remember who was supposed to bring it.
That said, one year the accountant FedExed our tax return, next day from Tyler to our Gilmer address. The tracking said delivered. I didn't have it. I went up to the mailbox and oir Whole Everything someone would need to steal oir identities was in a plastic bag, hanging on the mailbox. Lazy no-good incompetents work in more places than just the USPS
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