Decoding USPS Tracking Messages

[Chasing Embers]

I got this message at 8:21 AM this morning which immediately caught my attention as my deliveries never arrive prior to 2:00 PM.



I called to find out what was going on as no postal delivery vehicles had been in my area yet. On the phone for half an hour with an automated service only gave me the same information as the notification so I did the 10 mile drive to the post office. It was then that I discovered that the online message was their default for "We forgot to load it on the delivery truck".

 

[Tate]

Cool pipe! Same thing has happened to me. When they are being real you will see "Missent" in the tracking, but that can also mean they did load it but it was left behind.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cool pipe! Same thing has happened to me. When they are being real you will see "Missent" in the tracking, but that can also mean they did load it but it was left behind.

Gotta love professionals.

 

[Kobold]

Awesome pipe!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Awesome pipe!

Thanks! Jason tried his hand at a Savinelli shape for this year's Halloween piece and outdid them IMO. I'll be doing a full pictorial thread on Halloween prior to its first smoke.

 

[yohanan]

I have received those types of messages before from USPS, they choose to lie, rather than tell the truth, the truth would be much better and a lot less distressing, if you're running late and you can't make a delivery, that's okay, but don't lie and cause other problems and distress for your customer.

 

[ThermionicScott]

That chin is nice and pointy!

 

[Servant King]

they choose to lie, rather than tell the truth

There's a lot of that these days, not just from USPS either.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Just last week a business owner I know told me he was getting a personal visit from regional someone with FedEx and had to get back to his shop. Tracking a few days earlier showed his package delivered, but emailed a picture from a business next door on a Saturday. Jumped in his truck went to get it and no package. Checked the cameras around his building and had footage of the delivery guy leaving the package at the wrong place then starting to drive off and apparently realizing he’d left it at the wrong place, going back and picking it up, heading for the right place on foot, then turned and went to a dumpster and threw it away. No explanation other than perhaps the owner may have had too much political stuff in the window the FedEx guy didn’t agree with.

 

[Chasing Embers]

other than perhaps the owner may have had too much political stuff in the window the FedEx guy didn’t agree with.

That should never interfere with occupational obligations. That's just pitiful.

 

[Briar Lee]

I got this message at 8:21 AM this morning which immediately caught my attention as my deliveries never arrive prior to 2:00 PM.

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I called to find out what was going on as no postal delivery vehicles had been in my area yet. On the phone for half an hour with an automated service only gave me the same information as the notification so I did the 10 mile drive to the post office. It was then that I discovered that the online message was their default for "We forgot to load it on the delivery truck".

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At last count there about 195 different nations in the world with exactly same postal service the United States of America has.

Through rain and snow and heat and icy blasts of frigid winter the men and women of the United States Postal Service pickup and deliver the mail.

If occasionally they falter they try as best they can to deliver, even 76 years later:
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A lost letter is delivered unopened, 76 years after it was sent A few months after World War II, Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote home from his posting in Germany. He assured his mother that he was fine. Last month the letter turned up in a Pittsburgh post office.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071767029/a-lost-letter-is-delivered-unopened-76-years-after-it-was-sent#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,A%20lost%20letter%20is%20delivered%20unopened%2C%2076%20years%20after%20it,in%20a%20Pittsburgh%20post%20office.

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Besides, without the post office real old time country music could not have had “letter” songs, and think what a loss that would be for our heritage.

 

[Ebarber]

I really dig that shape. Very nice pipe!

 

[Briar Lee]

Just last week a business owner I know told me he was getting a personal visit from regional someone with FedEx and had to get back to his shop. Tracking a few days earlier showed his package delivered, but emailed a picture from a business next door on a Saturday. Jumped in his truck went to get it and no package. Checked the cameras around his building and had footage of the delivery guy leaving the package at the wrong place then starting to drive off and apparently realizing he’d left it at the wrong place, going back and picking it up, heading for the right place on foot, then turned and went to a dumpster and threw it away. No explanation other than perhaps the owner may have had too much political stuff in the window the FedEx guy didn’t agree with.

The Fed Ex guy is not an official of the government of the United States of America.

I sold over a hundred pipes on eBay a few years ago and made double damned certain to always rely on the United States Postal Service.

For about four dollars up to four ounces the USPS will not only deliver the pipe to the door of your customer but he can see it coming, by the hour, on his end.

One out of over one hundred pipes was delivered to the wrong address.

The customer called his post office and the pipe was satellite GPS tracked and recovered and delivered to him in an hour with an apology.

It pisses me off when Fed Ex or UPS delivers me something.

The sender must not care enough about America to enjoy the privilege of using his own, native land’s post office.

What would Maureen O’Hara’s next door neighbor lawyer say about using the real post office, you know?

 

[Chasing Embers]

It pisses me off when Fed Ex or UPS delivers me something.

The sender must not care enough about America to enjoy the privilege of using his own, native land’s post office.

Delivery and tracking are far more accurate. USPS has fallen from grace over the past several years with inaccurate delivery and damaged parcels. Ire should fall on the delivery service for not adhering to their own ideals versus those who choose not to use them. FedEx and UPS also deliver on Sunday but I think both at this point won't transport tobacco products.

 

[huntertrw]

Checked the cameras around his building and had footage of the delivery guy leaving the package at the wrong place then starting to drive off and apparently realizing he’d left it at the wrong place, going back and picking it up, heading for the right place on foot, then turned and went to a dumpster and threw it away. No explanation other than perhaps the owner may have had too much political stuff in the window the FedEx guy didn’t agree with.

The delivery-driver should have been summarily fired for dereliction of duty!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

The Fed Ex guy is not an official of the government of the United States of America.

I sold over a hundred pipes on eBay a few years ago and made double damned certain to always rely on the United States Postal Service.

For about four dollars up to four ounces the USPS will not only deliver the pipe to the door of your customer but he can see it coming, by the hour, on his end.

One out of over one hundred pipes was delivered to the wrong address.

The customer called his post office and the pipe was satellite GPS tracked and recovered and delivered to him in an hour with an apology.

It pisses me off when Fed Ex or UPS delivers me something.

The sender must not care enough about America to enjoy the privilege of using his own, native land’s post office.

What would Maureen O’Hara’s next door neighbor lawyer say about using the real post office, you know?

Well, he'd say the Post Office recognizes Kris Kringle as "the" Santa Claus - as he did, lol. A favorite movie.

As for the politics of package delivery, it's hardly Un-American to ship with alternate sources and I think most folks know Fed Ex isn't run by the feds.

We all know why other delivery services have succeeded and are necessary and why there is no way the federal government could or wants nationalize package delivery, nor do you if you want cost effective, efficient and economically responsible service provided for all things package delivery in the new era of buying things via the internet.

Fed Ex and UPS use USPS as well, but next time the UPS guy brings something I guess I'll call him "Comrade Emmet", lol.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

The delivery-driver should have been summarily fired for dereliction of duty!

According to my friend, he was told that happened a day after the meeting, which you would't expect them to report to him and maybe it wasn't something he was supposed to share, haha, but he's enjoying telling the story. Forgot to mention, I've seen the videos (two different cameras involved) and it's pretty funny to watch.

 

[Ghosted Tamper]

I'm sorry to hear of your troubles with our impeccable USPS services. I've only ever had them deliver my packages at least a half dozen times now to a neighbor across the street. No sweat though, not like a couple hundred bucks (or sometimes more) worth of product(s) is all that important anyway. They certainly do their best to make your day the worst, so they are great at some things!

On the upside to your story, what a stunning pipe! Glad you received it and it was merely a "misplacement" blunder! Looking forward to the Halloween pictorial .

 

[Chasing Embers]

Looking forward to the Halloween pictorial

Right now trying to figure out the lighting to where it doesn't appear black.

 

[Ghosted Tamper]

FedEx and UPS also deliver on Sunday but I think both at this point won't transport tobacco products.

UPS was still delivering tobacco products as of ~2 weeks ago. I believe they require a huge notice of "THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS TOBACCO" plastered so hugely on the package, that you'd rather think it be some hazardous waste product destined for disposal, rather than residential delivery. At least all of my tobacco related purchases shipped and delivered by UPS have had this caveat most recently.