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I love this recent one:

 

Your item cleared customs in NETHERLANDS at 8:57 pm on April 28, 2015.
Departed, April 27, 2015, 7:13 am, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Departed, April 26, 2015, 3:04 pm, Minneapolis, UNITED STATES
Departed, April 26, 2015, 12:05 am, Chicago, UNITED STATES
Arrived, April 25, 2015, 7:05 am, Chicago, UNITED STATES
Processed Through Sort Facility, April 25, 2015, 5:47 am, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 24, 2015, 11:52 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60666
Arrived at Sort Facility, April 24, 2015, 11:52 pm, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 24, 2015, 8:10 am, CHICAGO, IL 60701
Departed USPS Facility, April 22, 2015, 5:20 am, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19116
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 1:18 pm, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19116
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 11:46 am, NEW CASTLE, DE 19720
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 5:39 am, WILMINGTON, DE 19850
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 2:04 am, WILMINGTON, DE 19850
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 1:34 am, BELLMAWR, NJ 08031
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility, April 20, 2015, 11:03 pm, BELLMAWR, NJ 08031
Departed Post Office, April 20, 2015, 4:42 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
Picked Up, April 20, 2015, 3:12 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
Shipping Label Created, April 14, 2015, 3:09 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
 
When I put this on a map, it looks ever more interesting.
 
First the PA/DE/NJ route:
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Notice how it has been travelling in circles for a few days.
 
 
Finally the USA route:
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Notice how it has been send half way across the USA before it shipped back the other way around to Europe.
 
Conclusion: instead of raising their prices, they could make more money with improving the routing of the packages.
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I love this recent one:

 

Your item cleared customs in NETHERLANDS at 8:57 pm on April 28, 2015.
Departed, April 27, 2015, 7:13 am, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Departed, April 26, 2015, 3:04 pm, Minneapolis, UNITED STATES
Departed, April 26, 2015, 12:05 am, Chicago, UNITED STATES
Arrived, April 25, 2015, 7:05 am, Chicago, UNITED STATES
Processed Through Sort Facility, April 25, 2015, 5:47 am, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 24, 2015, 11:52 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60666
Arrived at Sort Facility, April 24, 2015, 11:52 pm, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 24, 2015, 8:10 am, CHICAGO, IL 60701
Departed USPS Facility, April 22, 2015, 5:20 am, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19116
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 1:18 pm, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19116
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 11:46 am, NEW CASTLE, DE 19720
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 5:39 am, WILMINGTON, DE 19850
Arrived at USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 2:04 am, WILMINGTON, DE 19850
Departed USPS Facility, April 21, 2015, 1:34 am, BELLMAWR, NJ 08031
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility, April 20, 2015, 11:03 pm, BELLMAWR, NJ 08031
Departed Post Office, April 20, 2015, 4:42 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
Picked Up, April 20, 2015, 3:12 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
Shipping Label Created, April 14, 2015, 3:09 pm, PAOLI, PA 19301
 
When I put this on a map, it looks ever more interesting.
 
First the PA/DE/NJ route:
 
Notice how it has been travelling in circles for a few days.
 
 
Finally the USA route:
 
 
Notice how it has been send half way across the USA before it shipped back the other way around to Europe.
 
Conclusion: instead of raising their prices, they could make more money with improving the routing of the packages.

 

 

HA - I grew up next to Paoli.

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Valid reason? Probably not. It's much safer for your sanity not to try and relate reason/logic to anything pertaining to USPS. 

 

Honestly.

 

Sometimes packages just sit. Maybe someone missed it, maybe it just didn't get scanned, who knows. 

did you ever get your package that was supposed to be delivered on sat?

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Had a package out for delivery on Saturday; never showed up. Checked the tracking and it said "status not updated" or something like that. I assumed it would show up today. Just checked my tracking again and now it says it has been forwarded to a different address. Wonderful.

I just recently started using the USPS dashboard to keep up with all my incoming and outgoing things, and whenever possible I choose the option to make the delivery point my front door. With it being 105+ here right now I surely don't want my records just hanging out in a parcel locker all day. It also alerts me as soon as something has been delivered so I know it's there and can shuffle off to get it to avoid missing the carrier or chance a record getting warped from the heat. I'll get a text, open my front door, and magically there's a package waiting for me. 

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I just recently started using the USPS dashboard to keep up with all my incoming and outgoing things, and whenever possible I choose the option to make the delivery point my front door. With it being 105+ here right now I surely don't want my records just hanging out in a parcel locker all day. It also alerts me as soon as something has been delivered so I know it's there and can shuffle off to get it to avoid missing the carrier or chance a record getting warped from the heat. I'll get a text, open my front door, and magically there's a package waiting for me.

Didn't even know this was a thing. I'll definitely be using it.

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Didn't even know this was a thing. I'll definitely be using it.

 

You can set it up to text you for deliver/attempt or for every move it makes you can get a text. Once you start a profile and load your address in it will let you know any kind of registered mail with your name/address pops up in their system. I can't remember how I stumbled across it either, probably while looking for shipping rates.

 

 

https://my.usps.com/go/pages/intro/start.action

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thats weird. i cant believe how awful usps continues to be

With all the talk of how the postal service's business has declined you'd think they would install new ethics to get customers back, but that's a gov't run agency for you..The post right near me is a main hub and they have talked about closing it for damn near 3 years now..If that happens and I mail a letter to someone in town with me, the letter has to go to Columbia which is an hour one way, then get sent back here to be delivered across town....

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  • 5 weeks later...

I shipped two different shirts in two packages via First Class and dropped them off at the mailbox on my street corner- one on Saturday and one on Sunday.

Oddly, they both never had their tracking info update and, after two weeks of no real help from the local post office, they never arrived to my buyers so I refunded both buyers and assumed the packages were lost.

Tonight, I'm walking down the street with my girlfriend and I notice a sticker on the floor that looks a lot like the stickers I put in my packages. It's the exact same one. I look a few feet away and I see a dirty, empty bubble envelope...that has my address and the buyer's address on it.

So, to recap, two weeks after I drop them off at a post office box, I find one of my two missing packages on the street a few blocks away from my house. Envelope is torn open, shirt missing, and envelope and sticker inside just discarded on sidewalk.  Second package is still MIA.

No idea what happened here. Dropped by a post man and scavenged by a hobo? Stolen from post office box? Planning on going to post office tomorrow with the envelope and asking them what they think happened and whether a stranger opening my lost package a few blocks from where I left it with the USPS's box is of any importance to them.

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