Lol USPS.

[tuftears]

Attached for your amusement, a tracking record of a package I recently sent.

DATE & TIME                   STATUS OF ITEM                           LOCATION
December 6, 2013 , 3:30 pm    Delivered	                               DURHAM, NC 27703 
December 4, 2013 , 8:30 pm    Processed through USPS Sort Facility     GREENSBORO, NC 27495 
December 4, 2013 , 4:06 am    Processed through USPS Sort Facility     INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46241 
December 4, 2013              Depart USPS Sort Facility                INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46241 
December 2, 2013 , 10:51 pm   Processed through USPS Sort Facility     RALEIGH, NC 27676 
December 1, 2013 , 7:13 pm    Processed through USPS Sort Facility     RALEIGH, NC 27676 
November 30, 2013 , 3:03 am   Processed through USPS Sort Facility     RALEIGH, NC 27676 
November 29, 2013             Depart USPS Sort Facility                RALEIGH, NC 27676 
November 29, 2013 , 6:35 pm   Processed through USPS Sort Facility     RALEIGH, NC 27676 
November 29, 2013 , 6:31 pm   Available for Pickup                     DURHAM, NC 27703 
November 29, 2013 , 9:02 am   Out for Delivery                         DURHAM, NC 27703 
November 29, 2013 , 8:52 am   Sorting Complete                         DURHAM, NC 27703 
November 29, 2013 , 8:32 am   Arrival at Unit                          DURHAM, NC 27703 
November 28, 2013             Depart USPS Sort Facility                GREENSBORO, NC 27495 
November 27, 2013 , 11:39 am  Processed through USPS Sort Facility     GREENSBORO, NC 27495 
November 25, 2013             Depart USPS Sort Facility                BELL GARDENS, CA 90201 
November 24, 2013 , 4:48 pm   Processed at USPS Origin Sort Facility   BELL GARDENS, CA 90201 
November 22, 2013 , 1:23 pm   Acceptance (SSK)                         MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94041 

It's like they decided it was going to get there too fast so they stuck it back in and winged it around an extra time. Yeesh.

Comments

[merrycalliope.livejournal.com]

What was it? I bet it got misdelivered and the recipient just dropped it back into the system.

Or the USPS is just on crack which is equally likely.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

DVDs I was returning to my friend, who brought them out here for me to watch at my leisure. Yeah, that seems likely re: misdelivered the first time around.

[sebkha.livejournal.com]

Yay for business process transparency, I guess?

[vickimfox.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

The trace suggests the following. The mailman attempted delivery on 29 Nov. But nobody was home to receive it. The available for pickup scan indicates the mailman put a "Sorry we missed you, the package is at the local post office for pickup" slip at the destination mailbox. The mailman put the package back in the truck. But, when the mailman got back to the local post office, instead of putting the package in the "for hold" box, he accidentally put the package in the "outgoing" box.

The trace also indicates something curious about Durham, NC. It appears the inbound sort center is Greensboro, but the outbound sort center is Raleigh. This is why the package had to take the long way to Indy to close the loop. Unlike here in Central Florida where the major post office at Orlando airport is both the inbound and outbound sort center.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

It's possible, but there was no notice found on the door. More likely that it was misdelivered to the wrong address and someone promptly said 'uh nope, not us'. Good theory about the 'outgoing' box though.

[gafennec.livejournal.com]

I had that happen last year. It went from City A in Wisconsin to Chicago to City B in Wisconsin to City C in Wisconsin (destination) back to Chicago to City A to Chicago to City B to City C and delivered.

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

I think I've already groused to you about my FedEx adventure =^.^=.

Canada to China. They sent it via the US (not entirely unexpected, just annoying).

When it was _on the truck_ in China, about to be delivered, head office called them to pull it, because of a US customs/duties/taxes flag.

I found out about it when it was back in the US (thankfully before they bounced it all the way back to me). After a bit of yelling, it eventually did make it to China.

Parcel post would have been faster. Moral of the story: Never send international-to-international shipments via FedEx.