Anyone here from USPS?

[Tellico]

That could explain this? I ordered a slide plate for a Glock 43 and so far this is the route is has taken over the last 5 days?? Start at the bottom. I am in MT. This could take a while.
May 15, 2016 , 4:54 am
Departed USPS Facility
ALLEN PARK, MI 48101
May 14, 2016 , 3:09 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
ALLEN PARK, MI 48101
May 14, 2016 , 2:08 pm
Departed USPS Facility
PONTIAC, MI 48340
May 14, 2016 , 1:04 am
Arrived at USPS Facility
PONTIAC, MI 48340
May 12, 2016 , 9:50 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
JACKSONVILLE, FL 32099
May 12, 2016 , 4:23 am
Departed USPS Facility
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
May 11, 2016 , 10:30 pm
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
May 11, 2016 , 9:15 pm
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
WALLINGFORD, CT 06492
May 11, 2016 , 4:13 pm
Shipment Picked Up
WALLINGFORD, CT 06492
May 11, 2016
Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS

 

[Pyromike]

Not from USPS but a friend is. He said sometimes things get misplaced and shipped to wrong places. It will arrive, just might take a little longer.

I once sent something from Michigan to Pennsylvania. Supposed to take 3 days. 5 days later it was in Texas via South Dakota. Nothing else posted in the tracking but it showed up in Pennsylvania after 7 days. Human error and you just have to have patience.

 

[m657]

I once mailed a 1st class letter to an address 7 miles from our USPO; it was delivered 38 days later after making the rounds through the US and Pacific Ocean Territories.

The address was legible, the postage was proper, but it was treated to 'special delivery' ....from another dimension!

 

[Bull Barrel]

Don't packages have a barcoded labeland are sorted by automated systems?

 

[Tellico]

Don't packages have a barcoded labeland are sorted by automated systems?

You would think, but I guess machines are getting so "smart" they can make mistakes like us humans

Fred

 

[WAYNO]

Allen Park seems to be a vortex, where all two day deliveries are shipped to to ferment, insuring that the 2-day delivery will take at least five days.

On May 5th, I sent a package from Oregon City to Grandville Michigan, and it inadvertantly spent time in Allen Park. The irony...I bought the postage on an automated machine. The machine questioned the zip code and asked if i want it delivered to Allen park, or the address on the label. I wondered why it would ask me such a question. There seems to be a glitch, and Allen Park is a major player in the automated scheme of the USPS. :mrgreen:

May 10, 2016 , 7:10 am
Out for Delivery
GRANDVILLE, MI 49418

May 10, 2016 , 7:00 am
Sorting Complete
GRANDVILLE, MI 49418

May 10, 2016 , 4:54 am
Arrived at Post Office
JENISON, MI 49428

May 10, 2016 , 4:07 am
Departed USPS Facility
GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49512

May 9, 2016 , 10:53 pm
Arrived at USPS Destination Facility
GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49512

May 9, 2016 , 10:22 am
Arrived at USPS Destination Facility
ALLEN PARK, MI 48101

May 8, 2016 , 1:52 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
DES MOINES, IA 50395

May 5, 2016 , 9:41 pm
Departed USPS Origin Facility
PORTLAND, OR 97218

May 5, 2016 , 9:37 pm
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility
PORTLAND, OR 97218

May 5, 2016 , 4:50 pm
Acceptance (SSK)
OREGON CITY, OR 97045

WAYNO.

 

[Pat-inCO]

You would think, but I guess machines are getting so "smart"
they can make mistakes like us humans

I'll disagree, but only a little.

The real problem is not with the machines, but rather with the dummy
that programmed it/them. I say that with 30 years experience as a
programmer. There are a significant percentage of the people with a
programming title that have very little knowledge or experience. Yet
they are still paid to that title.
(I've got dozens of war stories on that . . . . I'll not bore you with them)

 

[Dan in MI]

I can tell you Allen Park is a BIG hub.

I can also tell you it is sandwiched between Dearborn and Detroit.

 

[NixieTube]

If it shipped out of Wallingford, CT it kinda-sorta makes sense that it went to Springfield, MA.

What *doesn't* make sense (and I'm in the mailing business, private company, I *rely* on the USPS but I don't run it) is the trip from Springfield to Jacksonville, FL.

In the normal scheme of things I don't think that trip would happen. It should have gone from Springfield directly to Allen Park, MI.

I'll hazard an educated guess here and say that the Springfield facility accidentally bundled it with a load/pallet and it went on the wrong truck. Then it went all the way to Jacksonville, who put it on a truck for Pontiac, and then it made its way to Allen Park. That trip from Massachusetts to Florida and then to Michigan took a lot of time.

How does this happen? Sometimes a package falls on the floor and then someone picks it up and instead of it going into the truck in Bay 9 it goes into the truck in Bay 10.

 

[SAJohn]

All of this reminds me of an old joke where a guy is checking his bag in LA for his flight to New York. He asks the agent to send his bag to London, then Miami, and finally to New York. The agent tells him that cannot be done. The guy tells the agent the airline did it last time he made the flight.

 

[Mobuck]

It's hard to give a definitive answer. Do any of the oddball stop-overs have a zipcode that looks similar to your delivery zipcode(321xx looks sort of like 531xx if you're an optical character reader)? That was the most frequent problem for several years when machines started reading the zipcodes.

 

[pete44ru]

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The only USPS glitch that I was involved in, occurred many years ago (mid-1950's), when I received a birthday card (with a handwritten & dated message inside) 5 years after that particular B-day.


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[opos]

I hear that "going postal" is now listed in the dictionary..

 

[powder smoke]

Anything government runs is least efficient as possible. ps

 

[Jeepnik]

Had something like that happen, and I paid for overnight delivery. Guess what, the USPS doesn't guarantee delivery. And when they fail, which they do regularly, they will not refund the extra paid for said delivery.

 

[Tom W]

I sent my wife ( at the time fiancée) a Valentine's day card. It usually goes from wherever to Montgomery to the destination. This was in 2012 and we're still waiting for it.