USPS At It Again..

[bluegrassbrian]

We all love tracking our parcels. It's one of the greatest aspects of our consumer society. To an extent, it can even drive our happiness or despair..

I've been waiting on a lovely new pipe from Greece to wriggle and writhe its way here over the holiday season - it's slow going.
This morning I check the tracking and..




So is it out for delivery or not?
Guess I'll have to wait and see..

 

[sham]

maybe someone decided to be kind and break it in for you

 

[scloyd]

Looks like it was out for delivery from one USPS facility to another USPS facility. At least it's still in the Louisville area and not in another state.
Keep us updated and please post pics of the new pipe.

 

[seanv]

Someone probably called in sick and the route had to be adjusted

 

[Snook]

Almost looks as if it's begun the return journey to Greece! (Just kidding)

 

[BigEd]

Almost looks as if it's begun the return journey to Greece! (Just kidding)

Maybe not kidding.

 

[Sam Gamgee]

I just found a new trick on eBay when I got scammed. Some of the sellers have figured out a clever way to update the tracking info without the package having ever been picked up by USPS. They just bump up the "waiting on USPS" to take possession. Scammers! But eBay is all for the buyers and sellers be damned, so I'll be getting a refund.

 

[BigEd]

Back in October I ordered some fishing leaders from Idaho. First stop was Boise which made sense. Then it went to Alaska where it stayed for over a week. After I contacted the shipper it got moving again. To somewhere in Southern California. Then Bakersfield. Then LA. It finally started moving east and I got it about a month late. I half expected somebody in Alaska to have tried them out.

 

[bullet08]

I really don't mind USPS. They get things done okay around here. What gets me on the edge is when the shipper uses UPS Innovation or some such crap. The point where the item is handed off from UPS to USPS is always worrying. Typically, an item will just stay inactive for couple of days for no apparent reason. But I understand Amazon can't sell everything under the sun.

 

[kcghost]

It is not Out For Delivery. I don't know why all the griping about USPS. They have to deliver all kinds of crap plus your stuff as well and don't have the luxury of just handling things that were given to them in a decent package.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I really don't mind USPS. They get things done okay around here. What gets me on the edge is when the shipper uses UPS Innovation or some such crap. The point where the item is handed off from UPS to USPS is always worrying. Typically, an item will just stay inactive for couple of days for no apparent reason. But I understand Amazon can't sell everything under the sun.

Overall, I've always had good luck with USPS.
Any problems I've experienced have almost always been at the fault of "customs".

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

I recently had a package arrived at the Southern Maine regional processing center. Instead of just sending it onwards to my local post office in Greene, it went to Witchita KS where it spernt a few days before coming back to Maine. After spending 2-3 days being "processed" again, it finally made the sub 2-hour trip to Greene.

 

[bobomatic]

USPS is known for unreliable tracking updates. I read somewhere the USPS even acknowledges that they have no real time tracking like UPS or FedX. Sometimes it gets scanned correctly and properly updated and sometimes it doesn't. If it's something I need tracked or reliably delivered with accurate updates, I work with eBay sellers to have them ship my item with UPS or FedX... and offer to pay them a tad more if needed.

 

[AroEnglish]

maybe someone decided to be kind and break it in for you

Sorry @bluegrassbrian, I thought you wanted me to do that for you. I'll get it to you ASAP.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

USPS is known for unreliable tracking updates. I read somewhere the USPS even acknowledges that they have no real time tracking like UPS or FedX. Sometimes it gets scanned correctly and properly updated and sometimes it doesn't. If it's something I need tracked or reliably delivered with accurate updates, I work with eBay sellers to have them ship my item with UPS or FedX... and offer to pay them a tad more if needed.

Absolutely.
I've just never seen a parcel tracking say it's "Out for Delivery", but then return to "Processing" - especially after just two hours.
And of course, no one knows anything.

 

[Sigmund]

I hope you get it soon. We all need to see it!

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I hope you get it soon. We all need to see it!

Was hoping there'd be an update this morning but so far nothing has changed.
It's borderline criminal business practice I tell you! Criminal!
I've got pics of the pipe but.. must. Get. In. Hand.

 

[Briar Lee]

Emmit Molder never was able to get the Hamlet Post Office name changed to Bug Tussle, but when Emmit got old enough for Social Security he closed the Bug Tussle store and that caused the neighborhood to have to go about two miles to Dunnegan for the mail.

There’s a young Amish widow with five little children that lives across the road from where I grew up.

I see her oldest sometimes on the short cut through Spout Spring Hollow to Dunnegan on his donkey cart to get the mail for his Mama.



A Post Office keeps a community alive.

The folks that want fewer post offices and slower mail and me don’t get along, you know?

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

From Greece, huh? Wonder who made that. Can't wait to see it.
I've had pretty good luck with my few purchases from Greece.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Emmit Molder never was able to get the Hamlet Post Office name changed to Bug Tussle, but when Emmit got old enough for Social Security he closed the Bug Tussle store and that caused the neighborhood to have to go about two miles to Dunnegan for the mail.

There’s a young Amish widow with five little children that lives across the road from where I grew up.

I see her oldest sometimes on the short cut through Spout Spring Hollow to Dunnegan on his donkey cart to get the mail for his Mama.

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A Post Office keeps a community alive.

The folks that want fewer post offices and slower mail and me don’t get along, you know?

At 40 years old, I'm certainly not among the eldest members of this forum - BUT - growing up, there were big blue mailboxes on nearly every corner in my neighborhood.
Nowadays, they're so rare, I couldn't tell you where the closest one is (aside from the actual post office).
I miss those.