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1 of mine says sent to Chicago and the other 2 say sent to NY. Either works for me, but tracking says 1 of them processed thru 2x for same package and both time says sent to NY....shows different dates and times, so who knows? That is why I said sitting in customs. Where may be a good question?
I checked details on mine, it went way inland. No wonder it took so long to go from FT to a post office.
An amazon China package I have, just a bag of small screws, sat at Chicago just long enough to magically make it by their estimated Monday date. Same as my last FT package. I bet they don't even look at them.
Not looking at packages may have been true last month, year, whenever, but with the tug of war/bickering (so to speak) between US and China who knows what anyone is actually doing these days. All I know in the end is that most stuff will increase in price so I wanted to get what I wanted before that happens.
just my 2 pennies.
Just an update of the 1 that can't make up its mind.1 of mine says sent to Chicago and the other 2 say sent to NY. Either works for me, but tracking says 1 of them processed thru 2x for same package and both time says sent to NY....shows different dates and times, so who knows? That is why I said sitting in customs. Where may be a good question?
2018-07-29 10:44
Origin Post is Preparing Shipment, We have received notice that the originating post is preparing to dispatch this mail piece.
2018-07-29 10:44
CHINA, BEIJING EMS, Processed Through Facility
2018-07-28 13:24
Origin Post is Preparing Shipment
2018-07-28 13:24
CHINA, BEIJING EMS, Processed Through Facility
2018-07-27 10:11
CHINA, BEIJING EMS, Processed Through Facility
2018-07-26 03:27
Origin Post is Preparing Shipment
2018-07-26 03:27
CHINA, Acceptance
2018-07-26 01:07
CHINA, Acceptance
Origin : China - Tracking consuming: 245 ms
2018-07-30 16:17
Beijing, leaving Beijing to JFK airport in New York
It has left for JFK 3 times now. The date just keeps changing. sigh. LOL
It's only a small order Some glass replacements, pre-wound coils, and 1 tank. Hope the glass is holding up.
Seems to be how mine is going but with less updates.
USPS sent my Amazon China package to St Louis. They sent it back close to Chicago.
At least it is in our country. No clue(except maybe that 1 sightseeing in China) if the others ever got on the plane.......
My package showed shipped at FT. China Post (through USPS) said label made waiting for it at the post office. After days of that it said accepted by China Post. It processed through somewhere fast but now it's stuck awaiting again. I hope they're just trying to fill up a plane.
Anyone who gets Chicago ISC make those orders!
My Amazon screws (they are for vaping) are a city away. I'm not getting too excited though.
I ordered from Tandy, sent from the local store in that city, should've showed up next day but USPS sent it across the state. Shipping was a toss up for gas and I didn't feel like driving, once they sent the package on vacation it would've been worth driving for it.
Still nothing on my FT package. Shipped a week ago. Finally accepted Friday. Processed through Saturday. Pre-shipment since. I wonder if it's a tariff thing.
I ordered from Tandy, sent from the local store in that city, should've showed up next day but USPS sent it across the state. Shipping was a toss up for gas and I didn't feel like driving, once they sent the package on vacation it would've been worth driving for it.
Still nothing on my FT package. Shipped a week ago. Finally accepted Friday. Processed through Saturday. Pre-shipment since. I wonder if it's a tariff thing.
Things to know about USPS:
1)All mail goes to a Distribution Center for sorting. If you do not live the place where the DC resides, it may look like it's going out of the way.
2)If there isn't a full load going from the ship area to your area, it will likely go to the nearest alternate center with a direct route to your area.
The alternative would be for it to sit somewhere for a day or more waiting.
Our assigned distribution center is in St. Louis, MO. I am in Illinois. Even if a package is coming from the small town next to us, it will still go to STL first. There is no dedicated truck going to your town/village/city from every other town/village/city. Each PO gets a truck, usually in the early hours, from the DC (more than one, if the normal volume warrants).
My last order went from Chicago to INDIANA before going to STL, but it was in STL on the overnight, and sorted and on the truck for my little burg in the morning.
My friend drove a route from Jacksonville, FL to St. Louis. They made the trip 3 times a week, returning with a load STL to JAX, every other day. When they were on their way back down to FL, a package from FL to me might go to IN, or Kansas City, or wherever would have a truck going to STL the next day. It would get to me quicker than if they waited until that truck got to FL and was reloaded the next day. There is no room for them to hold stuff. What comes in, goes out...
Try to work out sometime how you would do it with minimum trips and maximally full trucks (for fuel efficiency) in the shortest possible time.
1)All mail goes to a Distribution Center for sorting. If you do not live the place where the DC resides, it may look like it's going out of the way.
2)If there isn't a full load going from the ship area to your area, it will likely go to the nearest alternate center with a direct route to your area.
The alternative would be for it to sit somewhere for a day or more waiting.
Our assigned distribution center is in St. Louis, MO. I am in Illinois. Even if a package is coming from the small town next to us, it will still go to STL first. There is no dedicated truck going to your town/village/city from every other town/village/city. Each PO gets a truck, usually in the early hours, from the DC (more than one, if the normal volume warrants).
My last order went from Chicago to INDIANA before going to STL, but it was in STL on the overnight, and sorted and on the truck for my little burg in the morning.
My friend drove a route from Jacksonville, FL to St. Louis. They made the trip 3 times a week, returning with a load STL to JAX, every other day. When they were on their way back down to FL, a package from FL to me might go to IN, or Kansas City, or wherever would have a truck going to STL the next day. It would get to me quicker than if they waited until that truck got to FL and was reloaded the next day. There is no room for them to hold stuff. What comes in, goes out...
Try to work out sometime how you would do it with minimum trips and maximally full trucks (for fuel efficiency) in the shortest possible time.
You are saying driving a package 300 miles, then turning around and driving it back 280 miles so you have to turn around again to drive it back 130 miles and delivering it late is intentional? And that it somehow saves gas???
Or sending a package that has to go 15 miles from the business that sent it Priority Mail, less than a mile from that city's distribution to the PO across the river, it is better to send that to a PO 90 miles away, driving right by the PO that it is supposed to go to and by another bigger city PO 30 miles away, then turning around to drive it back 87 miles from where it started is intentional?
And you think this is efficient?
If that's true this is why some places use Fed Ex and UPS to deliver to local post offices.
It's funny how rare it is that Fed Ex or UPS take these long round about ways of moving packages. And when they do it's because someone put the package on the wrong truck/plane, not intentional in the name of acting like they're doing something.
None so blind as those who will not see...
I'm guessing your first example is pulled from your rear. If not, that was an error, and it WAS put on the wrong truck.
ALL of the package companies have hubs where the sorting is done.
If you think FedEx or UPS does it better, pay the extra bucks and do the courier service. That is why they exist!
No one is having UPS or FedEx deliver to the "local post office". Those go right to the distro center, same as your USPS package.
In my case they go to St. Louis, just like the mail, even if it came from Chicago.
UPS/Fedex can't stop a semi, and dig out one package, even if they go right past my house. Neither can the USPS.
I'm guessing your first example is pulled from your rear. If not, that was an error, and it WAS put on the wrong truck.
ALL of the package companies have hubs where the sorting is done.
If you think FedEx or UPS does it better, pay the extra bucks and do the courier service. That is why they exist!
No one is having UPS or FedEx deliver to the "local post office". Those go right to the distro center, same as your USPS package.
In my case they go to St. Louis, just like the mail, even if it came from Chicago.
UPS/Fedex can't stop a semi, and dig out one package, even if they go right past my house. Neither can the USPS.
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That must depend on the area.When i have a package sent through either surepost or smartpost,UPS or Fedex will deliver them direct to my local post office,even though there is a USPS distribution center in my city as well.
Ok, I'll concede that. In Fedex case, though, it does have to go to one of 25 Fedex hubs to be sorted.
"I'm guessing your first example is pulled from your rear."
I mean, was that line really necessary? It sets the overall tone of the rest of your message and is very distasteful. The rest of the message tones it down some, but............
The first one is exactly what just went on to be delivered today. Maybe if you'd take the time to actually read instead of being offended because someone points out incompetence with USPS and then trying to make up excuses for it you would've known that.
I can handle someone making a mistake and sending a package from Peoria to East Peoria by way of Champaign, but if someone is actually intentionally doing that to "save money" as you pulled from your rear the whole USPS should be scrapped.
Exactly. It happens all the time. Sometimes you get the choice to pick one. Other times like with Amazon they just do it because it saves them money and shipping time. And USPS freely admits they're not good or efficient with long distance and even they contract Fed Ex to move their packages.
This is not about hubs. Those are readily identifiable patterns that packages always take. Hubs are not bouncing a package back and forth across the state passing the destination twice.
The hub for me from Chicago is Champaign, period. It is not random like you suggest. Someone at the Chicago hub is clueless so they see anywhere south of Chicago and figure St Louis is south, pass it off on them. You can't tell me there was no mail going from Chicago to be sorted at Champaign the last 2 times I've had packages through Chicago.
It's just like the gas station in southern IL, "Oh Peoria, that's up by Aurora isn't it?"
You still seem to think that decisions on routing are made by humans, and that determination is per the individual packages. This is not true of USPS, nor is it true of UPS, or FedEx. The PO moves 150 Billion pcs. of mail yearly. You just cannot get past your single package, to see the bigger picture.
I got several packages coming from fasttech, 2 x Ijoy Diamond Mini mods, 2 x VT inbox squonkers, and a pack of 5 bottles for the vt inbox. I can't wait till they get here.
2 of my 3 packages are in the US. YAY!! 1 in Chicago and 1 in NY. Whew, made it.....lolAt least it is in our country. No clue(except maybe that 1 sightseeing in China) if the others ever got on the plane.......
And the other 1 (that is sightseeing in China) got on the plane again -- twice since last post........LMAO
My package made it out of China. San Francisco ISC this time. And my FT prize has shipped so I'll have something else to watch.
I was afraid the FT order would be stuck in China and I'd get the prize before I got the parts to hopefully fix a mod for the prize to go on.
I was afraid the FT order would be stuck in China and I'd get the prize before I got the parts to hopefully fix a mod for the prize to go on.
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