Postal Priority Mail...detour taken...

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Yesterday, (the 18th) a fellow Forumite sent a CR Sebenza to me from a trade we made. He sent it via US Postal Priority Mail, with Delivery Confirmation. Tonite, I checked the progress of this package via the USPS web-site. It was shipped from southern Oregon (a little after 1:00pm on the 18th). It then went north up to Federal Way, here in Washington State (about 80 miles from me). Somehow it has ended-up in OHIO, on the way to "God-only-knows-where".

Isn't that a rather "un-normal" detour?.
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Basically the package SHOULD HAVE traveled directly from Oregon (where it was mailed), to me "right next door"/north in Washington State...(250-300 miles away).
...OHIO???

Oregon->Washington->Ohio->Washington??? What are THEY thinking???.
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I realize that USPS DOES advertize 2-3 day "average" Priority Mail delivery, and it's ONLY been 1 day so far, but WHY the "detour"?
(I hope NOT be one of those that fall outside of the "average" 2-3 days...).

Thanks for listening...(Rant mode OFF...
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
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I don't know about USPS, but FED EX has a central hub in Memphis. So no matter where you send a package, it is going to Memphis first, then to its final destination.

I am in Seattle and have not been mailed anything from near by so I don't what is going on. Call your local post office.
 
I've had that happen several times. . .

The best instance was when the tracker showed that a box was in Florida. Next day the box arrived at the abode. The tracker still indicated that the box was in Florida ~ for the next 3 days. lol

Sometimes they have a hard time getting it right !

Give it a day or so and see what happens. If you don't get your package then ~ raise some hell !
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My problem with Priority is that it just never seems that way when I am the one receiving the package. My packages will consistently arrive in 2 days after I send them, but take 5-7 when they are sent to me
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EX: I recently completed a trade/sale with a fellow in Colorado. He shipped his package 6/13 and I received it 6/19. I shipped 6/16 (Saturday) and he received 6/18 (Monday)!

Oh well, at least they have never lost one.
 
Well, it appears that THIS TIME it was all simply a USPS computer "glitch", as I received my package today, and now I'm a "happy camper".
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
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I wanted to chime in here too. I mailed a package from Mo on the 18th. I checked it on the usps site and it said that the package was mailed on the 19th from Oh! Anyway the knife arrived today. Now if that darn Greco would show up...or the spyderco, crkt, the other spyderco......

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Fred,

While it's true that you REALLY can't "track" a package with USPS (like you CAN with UPS), if "Delivery Confirmation" is used, you CAN "sort-of" track a package that way. It shows when a package was sent, when it arrives, and sometimes even the stops the package made in-between. THAT's how I noticed that the package in question was "shown" to be in Ohio, (which turned-out to just be a "quirk" in the USPS computer tracking system for a short time, as the package never WAS in Ohio).

As it turned-out, I DID receive my package in the 2-3 day "average" delivery-time for Postal Priority Mail.
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
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Priority Mail is not a guaranteed service. I had a ten day detour on one package. So it gets there when it gets there.
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I had one package sitting twenty miles from my home for three days... alas not a guaranteed service they said.

UPS ain't better and I've had my problems with FEDEX. I still prefer USPS, they tend to screw up less than the other shippers.

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