Slow / Delayed USPS tracking?
Nanuq907
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Is anyone else having ginormous delays in their USPS tracking updates?
I bought the world's most perfect 1911A1 National Match and the seller shipped it Johnny-on-the-Spot on the 15th of Feb. The 16th it showed movement, ultimately arriving at the USPS "Distribution Center". On the 20th the USPS finally pulled their thumb out and it showed movement to the next facility.
And that's as far as it goes. Since then there have been no updates, no notices of delay, no alerts that someone stole it off the shelf at the "next facility", nothing. Nada. Zip. Squat. For ten days either the USPS hasn't cared that they have my expensive toy, or they have no fricken idea where it is.
Is it too much to ask for an $80 billion/year business to be able to tell me, today, where my gun is?
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where did it ship from
Yes, USPS "tracking" has become problematic. As for the WHY?. No excuses from me but here's what I know: blame the COVID scare, blame the "current" President, blame the weather, blame whomever you wish. USPS is running on fumes due to loss of trained workforce, COVID concerns and restrictions, and general overload.
From the start, USPS "tracking" was marginally operational and then micro-management made it worse. Now the same system that allows tracking is being used as an employee monitor which simply overloads the marginal system.
When I left USPS in 2009 so did a lot of other long term, very experienced, highly trained supervisor level employees. The effect has not been fully resolved. Basically, they couldn't run the operation w/o us.
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Go to the USPS website and file a missing package complaint. It's amazing how quickly things start to move when someone is actually looking for it.
Yes. I have ordered several things with tracking numbers and all have arrived 3-7 days late.
Yes, for the past 3 weeks.
Shipping containers are sitting at distribution centers still sealed due to backlogs.
While out on my walk the other day I see the post person attempting to start his obviously out of maintenance ICE vehicle in between walking up and down to each house on the street. The most inefficient way to deliver mail that they get about .50 cents a piece for lol. It takes the guy 2 minutes to start the clunker and drive 15 feet to the next house to get out and walk up to the door. IF I had anything to do with USPS FIRST thing I would do is mandate all street box deliveries over door delivery and then reduce delivery days to three or four times a week max.
Tada wonder what that would save, side note it appears they will be spending billions of Tax dollars to buy a new electric vehicle fleet, maybe we should just require Amazon to deliver the darn mail!
My FFL has a 1400 FN "lost" somewhere and my son now has a $500 driver lost somewhere. Pathetic.
A USPS "distribution center" is like a black hole in space. Everything gets sucked in and nothing leaves, not even light.
Call your local Postmaster and let him/her look into it, that usually gets it moving again for me.
I get about half my packages before the USPS updates that it is anywhere near me.
Not lost just not arrived on time
You remember the Pony Express? Mail system is still using the same ponies, and they are getting older now.
Son mailed me a birthday card in early December. PA to VA. I got in in mid January.
Come to think of it, you may be onto something there. This is a particularly cold winter with tons of snow, and as you know all our mail is delivered by dog sled. The cargo hub at the airport is overwhelmed with dog teams struggling in the snow, and we're having to use 20 malemutes to move the heavy freight, instead of the usual 6-8 mutts.
So I guess I'll just be patient and keep the binoculars handy, and listen for the barking as they head up the mountain.
I ship a couple hundred packages most days. USPS is beyond "backed up".
Have patience, they are getting stuff delivered..........SLOWLY.
I have had hundreds of "where is my stuff" questions in the last week.
Good luck with it.
Merc
GIANT STORMS, or as you near Russia in Alaska call em, snow flurries. But a lot with the USPS is not going well under the Trump appointee who is currently running it (into the ground). Sorry my dad worked for the old Post Office and the deterioration is sad.
Yeah that’s true, I remember reading last couple weeks about the light dusting you guys got.
So I opened a “where’s my damn package?” claim last night and lo and behold, today it showed up at the regional distribution center. Probably to be delivered tomorrow.
What are the chances?!
Uh, that would be Louis DeJoy, appointed PMG by Trump. He was a major donor to the president & the Republican party. I think that the Democrat party is working on getting him replaced. Don't expect miracles, the agency is on life support.
Neal