This question is for no one in particular but I do hope some answers it. Lets say your packages last known stop was Phoenix. Has not moved in a week or so. What are you planning to do with that info? Call the Phoenix Processing & Dist. Center and ask them to go look for it? FYI, good luck getting the number, the only one listed anywhere is the 1800URSCREWED number. Even if you did have the number.....602-225-3030....you will only end up getting an employee on the phone that at best will transfer you over to the West Valley facility. I can just about guarantee you that what you will be told is that they process thousands of tens of thousands of packages daily.blah blah blah. I have said every time this topic comes up that the tracking system is a joke. Oh that's right, pretty much nobody bothers to read what I have to say. Case in point, anybody have a comment to my prior post?
Want to know how your packages are handled?
http://www.postalreporter.com/apps.htm will give you an idea of what the machine looks like etc.....
In all likelihood the only times your packages are touched by a human is when you hand it to the clerk and the delivery person loads it into his truck.
Your hand writing look like a doctors? If so, might want to print all of your labels. The APPS machine, as well as the afcs that cancels and starts the sorting process of your letters, have scanners and ocr software to read your handwriting. Used to be any unreadable image would go to a REC site to be read by a human. The software would then take the orange sprayed on tag and tie it into the info typed by a human so the item would be sent on its way. But the USPS has a "new & improved" software that can read damn near everything (or so they claim), couple that with the almighty budget cuts and I believe the rec sites are gone
http://www.dmnews.com/usps-phases-out-nine-remote-encoding-centers/article/61813/#
which pretty much means that if your handwriting sucks your package very well may take the scenic route.
And being that your package travels thru the APPS machine care to guess what very well might happen to it if you are one of the folks that does not remove any and all open air space in the box? Very good chance it will end up in the repair area. The repair area used to be staffed by limited/light duty folks. But once again, thanks to the budget issues
http://www.postalreporter.com/iod.program.htm
limited/light duty folks are ushered out the door as soon as they tell there boss they are hurt....so your package that got ripped open now very well may sit for a while.....
Hell, I only spent 19 long years there so maybe I do not know what I am talking about....
Hope your package arrives. If not, hope it was insured.