Tracking USPS Signature Delivery mail- WTF???

ProjectBazza said
So I bought a used truck recently, and on Wednesday I sent a cashier's check out to Portland, Oregon, from Minneapolis, via the USPS. Signature required, etc, etc.

USPS told me it would be there today, Saturday.

Just now the person waiting on the check called me; The check is in Hawaii!

So I checked the receipt, as well as the picture I took of the envelope (not my first rodeo with the USPS), and- Yup! Everything is perfect.

So I guess the USPS has found some magic wormhole that makes the distance between two places shorter by sending it thousands of miles out of the phuqiing way!

Wonder why postage fees are so high?

(shaking head)

You just can't make-up this ****.

I know at face value it looks ridiculous. But what we can't see is if there say was only one mail headed to the regional PO in area and no flights because of maybe the recent Boeing 737 grounding, but maybe 50 pieces of mail out of Hawaii are headed directly to it because they use different aircraft. I could see them, rerouting it. US mail often travels US passenger airlines.
Bottomline, we don't know all the info here.
I mail a letter to a local town 30 miles away, it goes on a 500 mile route, takes 3 days.