USPS weirdness lately

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I know these threads are almost useless because the USPS handles so many packages that each individual's experience is probably not representative of any trends, but sometimes it's nice to have a place to complain :D

I've generally had no problems in the five years I've been here using USPS. I think I had one package get lost and show up about two or three weeks later, otherwise everything has been delivered in a timely fashion. However, since the beginning of January I've now had two packages that have gone to bizarre locations first before arriving at my doorstep, which has dramatically lengthened the delivery window. For example, a package coming from FL to CT stopped in Chicago for a day, and in total took 4 days instead of 2 to arrive. Another one was coming from MN to CT, but is now in CO. In addition, I've had two more priority mail deliveries that have taken a day longer than usual.

I only post this because it's kind of weird for this to all happen in a couple weeks time, which is why it has gotten my attention. Is January still a busy month for USPS? I understand in December things usually take longer due to the high volume of shipping (and they appropriately update their delivery estimates for that).

Thanks for taking your time to listen to me :p
 
I certainly have had packages take some very weird paths over the years( such as CT-Fl via Portland Or). They also seem to route around winter storms at times. As long as they get there.
 
I have had really good experiences with USPS recently (knock on wood). It seems as though the packages that I send out and have sent to me have been getting here faster than before. I usually don't stalk tracking numbers since I know when the knife should arrive after checking the tracking once.
 
I purchased something recently that never arrived.....that was unpleasant. I also had a package take a very circuitous trip from Seattle, WA.....to Hartford, CT.......back across the west coast to Anchorage, AK......and then back across to the east coast when it arrived. It took two weeks.....and no one at the USPS could explain the reason. I actually have a great deal of respect for what the USPS does......there are those times when I want to pull my hair out though!!
 
I recently had an Amazon prime order that was sent from Californiaand got routed wrong by USPS. Got sent to Houston which is fine. Just needed to send it south to Corpus Christi, but from there they sent it to Louisiana where it sat for 3 days. So two day Amazon Prime ended up taking six days. Since we don't have a sorting facility in my city average delivery times for Priority mail are about 4 days.
 
move where i am it's weird every couple of weeks. ive ranted and raved nicely and politely on usps to the usps for years now to no avail. i wish i had the deliveries and good service the rest of y'all seem to have.

but yeah.....packages have been real weird lately coming from all over when i order.....lots of odd trips to other places not on the way and past my location and back again and then sitting at my location and shipping off to somewhere else and back again stuff like that.
 
I think it helps that I am located in Orange County, CA, which is a hugely populated area. I have an Amazon warehouse about 10 min from where I am sitting in my office right now, and my USPS sort facility is one of the larger ones, and is about 15min from my house.
 
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing (and even mentioned it a couple times):

SpyderPhreak said:
At this point I'm convinced the USPS tracking site has lost its marbles somewhere in the past month or so. :grumpy::grumpy::grumpy:

Packages "in transit" with no scans suddenly appearing on my doorstep several days to a week late.

Packages going into the system at a local PO, without any scans after leaving their destination (have one like that right now... Supposed to be here tomorrow.)

Packages sitting at local metro hubs for 4-5 days either without moving, or going back and forth to the same place (as the Chicago examples above).

I'm really starting to wonder if their system hasn't been hacked, and they don't want the public to know. :rolleyes: :thumbdn:
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SpyderPhreak said:
USPS has been weird the past couple weeks. Had a first class package make it from Michigan to my door in less than two days, but a Priority Mail package sat at the Phoenix hub for four days (Monday to Friday) last week before moving, then arrived in Denver in 6 hours (still won't be delivered until tomorrow). No idea.
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They have definitely not been doing as good a job as they were just 6 months ago,I had a package leaving California, going to New York and it ended up in Puerta RICO, then Hawaii before making it to New York. I have one right now coming from Sa Jose, California going to Mission Viejo California and somehow it is in Mississippi..
 
I had an order shipped on the 24th from Ontario, CA that USPS Tracking currently shows it's status as "Shipping label created, USPS awaiting item" even though I picked it up at my Post Office on the 28th.
 
The last couple months have been strange for me as well. Ordered a package from Germany that customs for a month. Seller ended shipping me another one that finally made it through after 3 weeks. This is opposed to others ordering from the same person who were getting there packages in the US within a week.

Also had a couple other orders disappear from tracking for a week or more, then suddenly show up in city.

My mail woman here is pretty awesome, but even she misplaced a package a couple weeks ago. Couldn't leave it at the door because of rain so left the pick up at post office slip. Took two trips to the post office and they couldn't find it. Finally talked to the supervisor, who talked to my mail woman who realized she had accidentally left it in her truck. She called and brought it to me the next day very apologetic.

On the opposite side, placed an order on Amazon this week. It shipped with an estimated delivery of Feb 9. I got it yesterday (Jan 28). 😂
 
I thought it was weird when my recent KC order went from Virginia to Houston then back east to Tallahassee (everything I order goes through Tallahassee) before finally coming to me in GA. Meanwhile, an order coming to me from Missouri at the same time took a more direct route.
 
Glad to see I'm not the only one with USPS problems. Had an order ship from MI to come here to AR, and some how USPS managed to ship it to CA... Took an extra week to get it with no update from the time it arrived in CA till it was delivered.
 
My latest order from Busse to longer to get from Ohio to Chicago than it did from Chicago to Sydney via Tokyo .....
 
You're not the only one. It is easily more than half of the reason I like to buy in person vs buying online but sometimes its the only way.

One time I had a package that was just 3 hours south of my location, get on a truck and go an hour north of me. Only to wait a day to go back down to the hub that was 3 hours south to wait another day then finally get delivered at around 4pm the next day.. The package was always within 150 miles of my location and it added another 3 and a half days to arrive.

Sometimes people make mistakes but goodness..
 
knock on wood, I have found USPS to be the fastest and most reliable means of shipping.
 
NY to Cleveland via Chicago - and left Chicago, per "tracking," four different times.

Package from PA now has disappeared from tracking for three days. Being sent priority and we are into sixth day. Tomorrow is Sunday, so I hope for the eighth day.

Package delivered today by being thrown out on my driveway in the snow. This has happened repeatedly in the last five months. Carrier apparently thinks I complained about his scanning all his load in the morning before going out, which I did not since I did not care and know complaints are useless. But in responding to my question about whether I needed to get a larger mail box - that I said repeatedly I was perfectly willing to get, the super noticed all the packages being scanned as delivered within a few minutes before the carrier left the building. I said three times that I did not have a complaint. But . . . .
 
New one to add. My Para 3 scheduled for Friday delivery. Of course didn't make it to my local post office until that Friday at 1PM. No big deal, but am very excited to get it Saturday. All USPS had to do was put it on their vehicle and deliver it, but instead they decide to send it back to San Antonio. Seriously.
 
Two recent packages, coming to me from opposites sides of the country, both scheduled to be delivered Thursday, were a day late. Not that big of a deal, but still.

We've also been having trouble with our Netflix disks. It used to be, they'd receive them the day after we put them in the mailbox, and we'd have new movies the next day. As long as we had them in the mail by Wednesday, we'd have new movies for the weekend by Friday afternoon.

Not lately. In fact, for the last few weeks, movies have been extremely delayed. A Wednesday return didn't arrive at Netflix's Denver facility until the following Monday. Disks then shipped to me on Tuesday didn't arrive until Saturday. Those were returned the following Monday and didn't get back until Friday, so we didn't have any movies for the weekend.

Not sure why, what has always taken one single day (for the past almost 10 years) is now taking 3-4 days, to get somewhere in the same city??? :confused: :grumpy:

knarfeng said:
knock on wood, I have found USPS to be the fastest and most reliable means of shipping.
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Until 2017 started, I would have agreed with you.
 
Up til the last month or so packages had been arriving a day before they say they were suppose too. The last few weeks 2 day priority has been more like 5 day.
 
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