cobraman Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 I just tracked a model I bought that was scheduled to be here yesterday. It was shipped from North Carolina. I am in Arizona. Package just left Honolulu ! Is that right ?
Fat Brian Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 I would first make sure you entered the tracking number correctly and if you did then I'd contact the seller and ask them to verify the number.
TarheelRick Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 If it came from a North Carolina post office I would believe it probably did take a detour through Honolulu on its way to Arizona. I live in NC and have had some bizarre shipping. I live in western NC and sent a package to a friend who lives close to the coast, the package left Greensboro went to Toledo, Cincinnati, Richmond and finally to my friend. Other packages I have shipped or had shipped to me have take circuitous routes before delivery. I sent a registered letter to my cousin. I tracked it for almost ten days, finally went to the local PO and asked them to track it; it was lost somewhere in the outer limits. My cousin wrote me and told me he had received it, according to USPS tracking it was still in the system and due for delivery.
High octane Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 It's possible that the sender may have entered the wrong zip code and your package is now on "tour' as that has happened to me many years ago.
Classicgas Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 Doesn't surprise me. The postal service has gone right in the trash. I had a package shipped from the west coast, arrive at my post office, leave my post office without being delivered, go to the east coast, come back and finally get delivered. The address was correct. Also had it take 2 1/2 weeks to get a letter from Texas.
peteski Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Classicgas said: Doesn't surprise me. The postal service has gone right in the trash. I had a package shipped from the west coast, arrive at my post office, leave my post office without being delivered, go to the east coast, come back and finally get delivered. The address was correct. Also had it take 2 1/2 weeks to get a letter from Texas. Gone to trash? I seem to recall someone here say say that the route for a package is carefully chosen (but some computer program) to be most efficient route. Regardless of what how it looks to us silly humans.
LL3 Model Worx Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Classicgas said: Doesn't surprise me. The postal service has gone right in the trash. I had a package shipped from the west coast, arrive at my post office, leave my post office without being delivered, go to the east coast, come back and finally get delivered. The address was correct. Also had it take 2 1/2 weeks to get a letter from Texas. You are absolutely correct!! I ordered a few very specific military models from Japan, and even though my address was one the shipping label right on the outside of the box, my package sat in the floor next to the post master generals desk for over a month before I found out it was there!! I contacted the seller, and they were the ones who figured out that it was and had been sitting at my local post office... with no explanation as to why other than "we didn't know where it was supposed to go" My address was right on the shipping label!
Classicgas Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 1 hour ago, peteski said: Gone to trash? I seem to recall someone here say say that the route for a package is carefully chosen (but some computer program) to be most efficient route. Regardless of what how it looks to us silly humans. Yeah, right to trash. Explain to me how it arriving at MY post office then making a trip out east and back is efficient lol.
LL3 Model Worx Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, Classicgas said: Yeah, right to trash. Explain to me how it arriving at MY post office then making a trip out east and back is efficient lol. I'm gonna give it my best shot. They needed your package back on the east coast as it was precisely the shape size and weight that they (the post office employees) needed to finish the great package pyramid they had been so carefully constructing for literally hours! Then after completion they took the neccessary Instagram/Facebook photos to post... See... it was for a good cause, and they are sure you understand. Yup, in the trash.
peteski Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Classicgas said: Yeah, right to trash. Explain to me how it arriving at MY post office then making a trip out east and back is efficient lol. It was my attempt of being facetious. It makes no sense (unless the tracking info was incorrect and the package did not pass through your post office before being sent on its extra sightseeing trip). Still, it makes no sense to humans how buggy computer algorithms work.
1930fordpickup Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 I will say I like the Postal carriers here and the people that work in our local post Office. Just before Christmas I ordered 2 models from a seller on EBAY. When i checked out the tracking one came from California and one came from Indiana. They showed up here the same day.
Classicgas Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 10 hours ago, peteski said: It was my attempt of being facetious. It makes no sense (unless the tracking info was incorrect and the package did not pass through your post office before being sent on its extra sightseeing trip). Still, it makes no sense to humans how buggy computer algorithms work. I know you were, lol. Thus my lol at the end?
Cornpatch Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 by sending it all over the U.S. , that's called job security for the postal workers.
peteski Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 In all seriousness, something similar was described in a lengthy thread, back in May of last year. I recommend reading it - fun read, with some explanations. It seems that @Tom Geiger is the guy in-the-know about how Postal Service deals with mail. Maybe he will chime in here too. While I still think that the computer programing they use to route the mail is buggy, sometimes mistakes or glitches will happen too. They move millions of pieces of mail a day, and the world as we know it isn't perfect. I'm in no way making excuse here - just looking at the ":big picture". In my years of receiving and sending mail, I experienced few mishaps too. While it sucks, it seems unavoidable part of life. Here you go!
Tom Geiger Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 Thanks for the kudos Pete! I went back and read my comments in the previous thread. I stand by them and don't wish to retype it all here, so if you are interested in how it really works, go and read the thread Pete suggests! As I had said, more and more is being automated. Humans touch an extremely small amount of the mail. It's all sorted and coded by high speed equipment. And that equipment actually scans all your mail. You can go online and look at the mail you are going to receive before it hits your mailbox! And as they automate, they have been consolidating sorting centers and cutting headcounts, which is cost savings. Here's a chart showing the total number of USPS employees year by year: If you look at that high in year 2000 of 787,538 down to the 2018 total of 497,157 which is like 63% of the 2000 high working in the system today. That's impressive! Things do go wrong. The address readers can misread bad handwriting. A sender can put in an incorrect zip code. The mail moving automation routes mail by the bar code across the bottom of your envelope. That code has your address right down to route order and house number! And most mail shows up at the final post office already sorted in that order.
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