US mail just as slow as Canada

USPS has a mobile app you can use for better and more accurate updates.
It's @ usps.com/mobile (or something like that)

I've had shipments do the same thing to me: go in the wrong direction from where it should be going.
Having a package being delivered from Phoenix, AZ, and watching the tracking end up somewhere in the northwestern corner of the US, followed up with a pit-stop to somewhere in FL...
Then after I complained about it for a day or so, it said it was finally in the right direction.

Makes ya wonder if the arrival/departure scan-ins ask each other why there's a box being shipped from AZ to NY and it's in Washington?! lol It's thrown me a loop a few times, but luckily it always ends up on my doorstep one way or another.

If you pay for 2-day shipping from a place across the US like that, and watch the tracking on it skip all around with scan-ins all night... But when you pay for 3-5 business day shipping, it's tracking scan-ins are everywhere. Seems like quicker shipping is confusing too, it's just quicker!

The mobile app, if you have the option to download it (some phones are exempt) it might be easier for you.

Hope this helps a little. :D