Tracking has been a bit buggy for my last few shipments. Waiting on 30 gauge kanthal and it was supposedly at my local sorting facility yesterday, instead of being out for delivery today it's back in North Carolina. I'm confused to say the least, but as long as it arrives before the weekend I'd be a happy camper.
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Haha xD
I'm waiting on some vapemail myself and the tracking is working just fine, so far. Can't say I know much about the shutdown effecting the tracking tool. I'm a USPS Mail Clerk and it's business as usual, which is to say busy as all hell. FYI the USPS is entirely self-sustaining branch, meaning we do not accept or rely on government funding to operate.
As far as the website, though... I'm not sure, could be there's problems in that department. Just letting everyone know, we are still sorting parcels and running letters. If the tracking seems glitchy have faith that there's honest folk working graveyard shift to make sure you get everything bright and early.
You are quite brave in revealing that you are a USPS Mail Clerk.
Now, could you go find my bloody Vamo?
You are quite brave in revealing that you are a USPS Mail Clerk.
Now, could you go find my bloody Vamo?
Hah! Yes, you caught me. Let me just call the Postmaster General and see what he can do ^_^
But in all seriousness, packages do get lost. I made a post about this before. You have to realize the average sorting facility handles upwards of a million pieces of mail per day and much more for metro areas. Most of which are letters, but in my small neck of the woods we still get around 7,000 parcels per day. Some packages are lost due to human error. Some are lost due to machine error. I haven't actually seen or heard of anyone losing a package at my facility. Wouldn't surprise me, but I can tell you it doesn't happen daily or even weekly, though I don't typically sort parcels often. (I have sorted vape mail before though! Made me smile)
The only thing I can suggest is that you always snag insurance with your vape gear. Heck, I do and I know full well what goes on at the USPS, which is to say a small group of people processing, sorting, and moving around ungodly quantities of mail.
I will tell you this. Any clerk caught throwing a package labeled "fragile" would be immediately reprimanded. We are required to handle mail in such a way as to prevent casualties and losses. Heavy boxes go with heavy boxes. Small, non-fragile parcels go with other small, non-fragile parcels. So on and so fourth.
And yet despite the tremendous quantity that we manage to unload off brigades of hourly trucks, safely tucked (and often gently set down) into the carrier bins... this doesn't prevent that one box from falling off the conveyor belt in some little nook nobody notices. Or the inattentive dock worker who didn't check the bottom corner of the bomber (large metal box for shipping parcels) inadvertently sending a package back to sender or who knows where else.
It sucks, but mistakes happen.
Just taking a look at that tracking, did you call the facility and ask to speak with a postmaster?
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In all honesty, this is the first instance among literally hundreds of packages shipped that I've had a problem.
I did call. Everyone I've dealt with has been courteous and has tried to be helpful. But until someone tracks it down I'm pretty much stuck waiting.
It's all so frustrating at times. I placed an order on the 8th, got a shipped notice and uspc says they received the Electronic Shipping Info Received notice. Nothing since then and this first class mail parcel is coming from NJ to Maryland. I could drive to where the package is coming in a little over three hours.
Does anyone know what Electronic Shipping Info Received actually mean? Does that mean that have the parcel or did the business just print out the label? Sometimes I get a notice from a vendor that an item has been shipped but the Electronic Shipping Info received is dated the next day. I know. I know. I can pay more and go for UPS which is always reliable.
Does anyone know what Electronic Shipping Info Received actually mean? Does that mean that have the parcel or did the business just print out the label? Sometimes I get a notice from a vendor that an item has been shipped but the Electronic Shipping Info received is dated the next day. I know. I know. I can pay more and go for UPS which is always reliable.
It means that the label was purchased or printed via USPS or some other approved vendor and USPS is acknowledging this. That too is a system generated message. When the package is accepted, it means that the shipper has delivered it to USPS, or has had USPS pick it up.
Short answer: Your item hasn't physically shipped yet.
I had a feeling.... Thanks.
Hopefully, usps is just not updating and I'll get my package tomorrow.
I was having that problem, I think it was the govt. shut down. I have not been getting those messages the past few days. Everything I checked on today was tracking fine. During the shutdown I got one package to track, It was coming from Wisconsin, I live in NC, tracking said it was in Alaska the same day it was delivered to me.... If they furloughed the IT folks, it may take them a few days to get things running smoothly again.
I sometimes get that error when using the USPS app on my phone.... Once I close the app and restart it sometimes it works again.
i bought a few things on ebay (not vapemail) and noticed the tracking numbers they provided weren't updating all week. when i started receiving the packages, i chalked it up to vendor fat-fingers.
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