I can't possibly be the only one to experience this and be annoyed by it. I order something online. It ships via the Postal Service run by our wonderful(yeah right) government. It gets scanned when leaving the "sorting facility" closest to its origin. Then it doesn't get scanned again until it's in Harrisburg(or insert some big city near you), or even sometimes my hometown. So... Why the hell do they even bother giving out tracking numbers? the point, in my mind at least, of tracking, is to allow the customer to see where the damn thing they ordered is at any given time. What good does it do if it gets scanned only two or 3 times during its trip? I've been checking the site since the day my last package shipped from Volcano, on the 9th. All it says is that my package arrived at and left the sort facility in Honolulu. Well that's great, but what about after that? Is it floating around in purgatory? Another dimension? Is it going to friggin' teleport to my house? Hooray for the awesome postal service. They continue to do a ....tier job all the time, yet they want more and more money to do that job all the time as well. Their tracking system is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine...
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I feel your pain.
Literally- I have two shipments coming in SUPPOSEDLY tomorrow...
Two specific things I get a kick out of:
1) when a package has not yet been marked at local hub.... and yet has been delivered.
2) when a package sits at a local hub for a few days- because fast shipping wasn't paid for and yet it got there fast.
But I do feel like a small defense for the Postal Service is deserved:
UPS, FedEx, DHL- they are all equally bad in my experience.
Tracking info is really only useful for when a package does NOT arrive in the expected time- it can be tracked back to where it last was and hopefully found.
Literally- I have two shipments coming in SUPPOSEDLY tomorrow...
Two specific things I get a kick out of:
1) when a package has not yet been marked at local hub.... and yet has been delivered.
2) when a package sits at a local hub for a few days- because fast shipping wasn't paid for and yet it got there fast.
But I do feel like a small defense for the Postal Service is deserved:
UPS, FedEx, DHL- they are all equally bad in my experience.
Tracking info is really only useful for when a package does NOT arrive in the expected time- it can be tracked back to where it last was and hopefully found.
It's pretty much just the safety net to make sure your package was delivered, it is useless to use as actual tracking like Fedex etc.
oh crap, this was supposed to go in the general e-smoking discussion, not general e-liquid. This forum has too many sub-forums. I've also noticed too that when it's scanned isn't when you see where the package was scanned. You see that like 5 hours later, when it's nowhere near where it was when it was scanned. For e-cig stuff, I guess that doesn't matter too much, but when someone needs to be there to sign for it, I'd be ...... if I missed it because the tracking info got updated late.
I quit wasting my time with tracking years ago. The only time it is of use is if a package is overdue. Even then, there's a lag.
Yeah the tracking sucks. After the initial "its been picked up" tracking point, I don't see another until the day its going to be delivered.
that being said, I usually receive a package 1-3 days sooner from USPS than from FedEx, who I get updates on the package almost daily as I watch it bounce from sorting facility to sorting facility.
You just reminded me I need to check on my stuff from Liberty Flights it was in Phoenix last I checked, I hope it's here tomorrow. 
I've had my packages in hand before the first origin scan posts on USPS before. It's not even accurate with such specific terms as "sent" and "delivered".
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