USPS at their finest!

[icy]

Here is the tracking #: 9101010521297743739139
The package comes from TPA in CAL. I live in OK. I guess my package wanted the scenic tour

 

[carpedebass]

HA! I wonder why the USPS is going broke???

 

[madjack]

I've got a pretty good sized order in with CCV for an E-Power and a few bundles of Resurrectors...USPS tracking showed it processing out of their Columbia Il facility at 6:30pm Wed nite headed for me down here in La...then shows out for delivery as 8:30AM Thur...IN Columbia Il...WTF...now it just shows, LOST...CCV is trying to track it, I am trying to track it and USPS is clueless...and they wonder why they have trouble making a buck...SHEEEEESH..........
madjack

 

[Loveridden]

LOL check this one out... 0311 0820 0002 1999 5837
Shipped a trade to someone here on ECF......
It was first class. It might of made it to Canada in that amount of time lol

 

[Redd]

Yep...here is what mine says for MT CCV order.

Date Time Location Status
October 10, 2011 19:34:00 62236 Electronic Notification

That's it. Ordered other products from PA the same day and time and they arrived just fine.

 

[Jeremy-WI]

I had one of USPS's bonehead moments a month ago, it went from the west coast to the east coast before making it to WI

 

[carpedebass]

I had one of USPS's bonehead moments a month ago, it went from the west coast to the east coast before making it to WI

Yea, some goofball probably thought WI was somewhere around Washington DC.

 

[calico21]

I'm seeing a commonality to most of these....Illinois......must be some kinda device out there that pulls all orders here first. I want one and then I could get all your orders......(insert evil laugh here!)

 

[Allan.GH]

Trouble with the USPS is that they're so variable in their service.

I had a package that showed "Electronic Shipping Info Received", "Shipment Accepted", "Accepted at origin sort facility", and "Processed through Sort Facility" (in PA) all in the same day. It showed nothing different until I looked at the page, 4 days later, and it said "Delivered"....no "Arrival at Unit" or "Out for Delivery"...just "Delivered". Went to the mail drop and it was there.

I've had packages that update every micro-step of the way (some of them taking interesting detours also), almost down to the point of telling you the name of the driver or pilot hauling my goodies. The last mile is the clifhanger.

Long as it gets to me eventually.

vaping won't kill you, it's the stress of waiting for your stuff to finally "get here" that'll get ya.

 

[Nunnster]

What I love is when I order something from the same state as myself, and it goes to ATL before going back to Tampa to get rerouted back to my house. ESP when I can drive and pick it up myself within an hour.

 

[Loveridden]

Well mine has IL in it because I am from IL lol
Did anyone else look at mine tho?? Took forever!

 

[my4jewels]

Check this one out, coming from CCV in IL to ME, looks like it was out for delivery in IL, then routed to Maine:
Stamps.com - Tips & Tools: Track and Confirm: Results

 

[vid]

I got that beat, had a package from a favorite smoke shop, they ship it out on a Monday, it arrives in My state Tuesday, goes to the correct sorting facility, then overnight they ship it across state (because there dumb). It gets to the other side of the state, they tag it as misdirected shipment, they then decide to ship it back to the original sort facility 5 miles from my house. There they tag it is lost in transit. Seriously? They send it again across state, and back again. Then the deliver it! This package criss crossed michigan 4 times when it was 5 miles from my house. Stamps should now cost 10 bucks based on that BS!

 

[Allan.GH]

Seeing THAT would bug me just a bit, if I was hovering over the tracking updates....no...wait...I *do* hover over the tracking page.

 

[USA251]

Waiting for a "priority" package now that was shipped out eight days ago. All I can say is thank God they didn't send it parcel post. USPS has really got to get their act together if they want people to use their service.

 

[kempo63]

Just ordered something and my status is this: missent???? Stamps.com - Tips & Tools: Track and Confirm: Results

Does this mean that it's going back to the originator, or just lost or missplaced?

 

[calico21]

Have you order from there before? Do you know which sort facility they usually go through? It sounds like it went to the wrong sort facility and is being directed to the right one but it could be on it's way to Illinois

 

[charmed412]

I had some meds that I ordered come from New York...they went to Vegas...they went to LA...they went to Hawaii...and then they came to Kansas.....I guess my meds got to go on vacation and I didn't...

 

[RialCeLmiT]

Common rule of thumb...If the government is somehow involved, then it is junk.

 

[mostlyclassics]

<snicker> to all of these.

To be fair, though, I've found that USPS is at least as reliable as OOPS and FedEx, and it's considerably cheaper.

Here are some observations which can help explain some of the seeming anomalies in USPS shipping:

1. Almost no post offices sort their own mail anymore. Virtually all mail goes to a regional processing facility. Thus, for example, a letter or parcel from Evanston, IL, to Evanston, IL, goes to the regional processing facility in Palatine, IL. Eliminating local sorting of local mail has saved the USPS billions over the last decade or so, they say.
2. Some routings may seem nonsensically out of the way. But the routings depend on whatever mail-carrying contracts the USPS has signed with private-company mail carriers.
3. Parcel post generally moves with Priority Mail, but it's on a space-available basis, with Priority Mail taking, obviously, priority. If you compare the parcel post and Priority Mail rates, parcel post for the most part is only marginally cheaper, frequently by a dime or so.
4. First class mail and Priority Mail generally move together. And for anything less than a pound or so, it pays to compare the first class parcel and Priority Mail rates. Frequently the first class parcel rate is much cheaper.
5. The extra steps involved in processing the extra-service item (delivery confirmation or insured, certified or registered mail) can significantly slow the movement of mail. And there's only slightly better reliability with the extra services. Registered mail moves the slowest. (As a for-instance, ordinary first class mail from central Pennsylvania to the Chicago area is usually one or two days; registered mail is seven or eight days.)
6. Mail to a P.O. box generally is delivered a day before mail carried to your street address and eliminates any "uncertainties" involved with an unsupervised mail carrier.

As I said, just some observations . . .

Said RialCeLimT,

Common rule of thumb...If the government is somehow involved, then it is junk.

True. But the USPS is an independent public corporation, though subject to whatever silliness the congresscritters and the Postal Rate Commission want to throw at them. BTW, in countries with privatized postal systems, particularly in Europe, the first class letter rate is well over a dollar equivalent, despite the much shorter distances involved. And many of those countries don't have any kind of a parcel rate: the parcel rate is the same as the first class mail rate and thus vastly more expensive than our Priority Mail.