Tracking USPS Signature Delivery mail- WTF???

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ProjectBazza

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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 ****.
 
All of our mail destined foe the next five surrounding cities, a total of about 15 miles radius now goes 65 miles to a regional sorting center, and then 40-80 miles back.

...but I bet your issue was a mistake, all that above is on purpose.

Apparently truck drivers, trucks, gas and maintenance all cost less than employee labor at each office.
 
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 ****.
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Typical.
 
YY1 said:
All of our mail destined foe the next five surrounding cities, a total of about 15 miles radius now goes 65 miles to a regional sorting center, and then 40-80 miles back.
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That's almost exactly what the tracking is telling me:

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So the "Regional Facility" for Portland, Oregon is in Honolulu, Hawaii? Seriously? Minneapolis to Portland....via Honolulu? Oh, yeah! That makes sense to me! :realcrazy:

Thankfully it still says that delivery is expected before 9:00 PM this evening, but neither me nor the seller are holding our breath on this one.
 
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I had a choke pull off i bought on ebay end up in Puerto Rico before it got to me. I have no idea how that happened. It was addressed correctly. Even the seller was shocked.
 
AMC Diplomat said:
I had a choke pull off i bought on ebay end up in Puerto Rico before it got to me. I have no idea how that happened. It was addressed correctly. Even the seller was shocked.
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This whole thing kinda reminds me of the last line in Charlie Daniel's "Uneasy Rider":

"I wonder if anybody think I'd flipped if I....went to LA...via Omaha".
 
Fla to Germany, than 3 months later to me in Ontario Canuckistan. **** happens, my pieces were glass and all intact.
Wanna talk about the rapists Fedex/UPS?
 
4spdragtop said:
Fla to Germany, than 3 months later to me in Ontario Canuckistan. **** happens, my pieces were glass and all intact.
Wanna talk about the rapists Fedex/UPS?
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Wow! WTF? I had a package that required a signature delivered by Fed Ex yesterday. By the time I got to the door the driver was down the street. I reviewed my Ring doorbell footage and he was at the front door 23 seconds from the time he rang the bell to the time he turned and left. That's BS.
 
4spdragtop said:
**** happens, my pieces were glass and all intact.
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About 5 years ago I drove down to Baton Rouge, LA., for Qty (3) extremely hard-to-find glass pieces for a 1955 jukebox I was restoring, as I gave-up on trying to have glass that I found, and purchased online, arrive intact.

Glad to hear yours made it!
 
toolmanmike said:
I had a package that required a signature delivered by Fed Ex yesterday. By the time I got to the door the driver was down the street.
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When I dropped off my letter I asked them (USPS) about this very scenario. I was told it's "optional", and at the discretion of the delivery agent, unless I "opted out" of it.

I asked how to do it (opt out), and on the little screen where I made my payment, sure enough, there was a place to "check" if you didn't find this acceptable.

I couldn't check it fast enough, but then I got to wondering about what kind of a world do we live-in where we have to opt out of something so that we get the service we're actually paying for in the first place?
 
Wait until you screw with trying to get something from overseas shipped here, and the transition from overseas to US. Their tracking is a joke.
 
toolmanmike said:
Wow! WTF? I had a package that required a signature delivered by Fed Ex yesterday. By the time I got to the door the driver was down the street. I reviewed my Ring doorbell footage and he was at the front door 23 seconds from the time he rang the bell to the time he turned and left. That's BS.
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If you ship UPS and you sign up for their website, you can track the truck your package is on. This has come in really handy when I'm waiting on something valuable.
 
I can't remember the city names, but a package from Colorado ended up in a 3 city loop from the LA regional site. LOL...It just kept going around and around and around for 6 weeks. Tracking showed it leaving a facility, then a couple of days arriving at the same facitity over and over. :BangHead:
 
But yet people stuff the absolute **** out of a "it fits/ships" box and then complain about pricing lmao. A fn cyl head?? Seriously....
 
I bought some heavy stuff at the bf sale, a custom assembly so I didn't really know what to expect. Got a notice from FedEx a day before scheduled delivery, (a couple weeks sooner than I expected) that it was coming, and needed i.d. and a sig.
Guess what. Perfect arrival exactly when predicted, FedEx guy unloaded carefully, packaging intact. I was shocked, and pleased.
Now for USPS. Since none of the f@#king banks will cash an I-bond any more, I have to send them to the government, open an account (which I'm sure is VERY deliberate) and trust them to the mails. I'm gonna insure them for TWICE what they are worth, and require a signature and proof of delivery. And hope they don't get sent to Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
 
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 ****.
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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.
 
Postage does continue to rise, but still it's the cheapest way to send a first class letter all the way around the world. They just caint get it right. lol
 
I feel your pain. I had a part I ordered from a member in the LA area that took about a month to arrive. Every day tracking was different. It showed going from LA to Tucson to Texas to Denver back to Texas, to LA, then to Denver again, then Salt Lake, back to Texas where it showed no movement for a while. It showed up at my place finally but still showed being in Texas. If it wasn't so frustrating trying to figure it all out it would have been amusing - all those moves showed up no more than overnight, and many were the same day. That's one fast moving package!

My local post office is a hell-hole of bad attitudes, indifference, and inefficiency. Asking them if they could help was a total waste of time and energy. No wonder postage rates keep going up. If the tracking was to be believed, I think I totaled up something like 4800 miles on it.
 
halfafish said:
I feel your pain. I had a part I ordered from a member in the LA area that took about a month to arrive. Every day tracking was different. It showed going from LA to Tucson to Texas to Denver back to Texas, to LA, then to Denver again, then Salt Lake, back to Texas where it showed no movement for a while. It showed up at my place finally but still showed being in Texas. If it wasn't so frustrating trying to figure it all out it would have been amusing - all those moves showed up no more than overnight, and many were the same day. That's one fast moving package!

My local post office is a hell-hole of bad attitudes, indifference, and inefficiency. Asking them if they could help was a total waste of time and energy. No wonder postage rates keep going up. If the tracking was to be believed, I think I totaled up something like 4800 miles on it.
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I had an express mail letter with tracking that was sent to a Closed PO box, that recycled between two adjacent Postal offices every day for 15 days in Texas. I finally filed a missing mail claim. The letter was returned to me 7 days later. Two weeks after that I got a notice from the Post office, they had not found my missing letter but they still looking for it. Never heard back again.
Texas is a black hole for mail it appears.
 
I recently purchased a small item from an ebay vendor, that i thought, figured, that it wouldn't take that long to get to me, in the Sacramento, CA. area.
It started out in Colorado, then went all the way up to Maine, then New Hampshire, then Massachusetts, then Connecticut, and after that it finally got going in the right direction, heading west, out to me here in Commiefornia.
Glad that i wasn't in a big hurry, to get it.
Took forever to get here.
 
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I know exactly what happened.
The letter got to the other party on time, didn't it.
I'll tell you if you answer truthfully.
 
I had that happen to me, my part showed going to a different state two or three times. I called USPS and they told me that it’s was in a tote that was traveling all over, I got my part the very next day. The tote that my part was in kept traveling all over, but my part was separate all along.
 
Car Nut said:
I had that happen to me, my part showed going to a different state two or three times. I called USPS and they told me that it’s was in a tote that was traveling all over, I got my part the very next day. The tote that my part was in kept traveling all over, but my part was separate all along.
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BINGO!
With USPS tracking, after it leaves your hands with an acceptance scan, any tracking you see afterwards is the APC (container) it either is or was traveling in. Lot of times it's an entire truck or plane load.
Most of the time a letter won't individually be touched again until it hits the carriers hands.
 
So, in reality the tracking offered is mainly smoke and mirrors to "let them eat cake"?

BTW what does APC stand for?
 
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