gotta luv the USPS
varian
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this would be funny if i actually didnt need this, this weekend, i live on the Ms coast by the way.
Saturday, August 6
10:47 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Birmingham Al Distribution Cent,
10:37 AM
Package left the carrier facility.
Birmingham Al Distribution Cent,
10:14 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Birmingham Al Distribution Cent,
8:26 AM
Package left the carrier facility.
Montgomery Al Distribution Cent,
8:11 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Montgomery Al Distribution Cent,
2:48 AM
Package being processed at carrier facility.
Birmingham Al Distribution Cent,
2:48 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Birmingham Al Distribution Center Annex, US
Friday, August 5
5:00 PM
Delivery Delay
9:02 AM
Possible delay in delivery.
Bessemer, AL
6:38 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Bessemer, AL US
5:38 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility.
Bessemer, AL US
4:14 AM
Package left the carrier facility.
Bessemer, AL US
Carrier picked up the package.
Times are shown in the local timezone.
Comments
Its called the Alabama tour.
I sent a letter to a PO Box in Omaha. It made it's way to the Greensboro Dist Ctr the next day & was rerouted in 8 minutes & was on it's way ++++. After 2 days to the Omaha Dist Ctr, it spent 5 days there to get to the PO Box in the same city ????
I had a package get to Indianapolis and stay, never heard from again , PO says lost,, more like stolen
I've had that same thing happen numerous times with USPS in Denver. In the latest instance, the package I set arrived and left the Denver facility 4 times. Then my package was delivered to a small town about 40 miles north of Denver. Except, the address and ZIP clearly showed it was to be delivered to a town a few miles south of Boston, Mass. The postmaster in the Colorado town figured it all out and got the package on its way to Boston without going back through Denver again.
I'm not making excuses BUT here's some insight into the oddball 'movements'.
First: understand that there's a limited amount of space inside any facility (USPS/UPS/FedEx) There are also priorities(at least within USPS) as to what type of mail is sorted during specific work periods. There isn't room to just sideline the monumental pile that already in the facility and shift to another process so the backlog has to 'go somewhere'. Often that 'somewhere' is a truck.
I have suspicions that sometimes those 'departed to XYZ facility/returned to ZYX facility' scans are semi-loads of mail/packages/bundles that never left the back lot. A loaded trailer has to be 'scanned' and that denotes everything is scanned into/out of said trailer. The plant supervisor can't just say, 'we're covered up and parked 23 trailer loads of parcels in the back lot'.
Good/bad/otherwise, I feel this is a fairly common answer to the problem ALL delivery services are encountering.
Check sent from NY priority 2 day left Monday. Was in Columbia SC that same night. Sweet. Then on Sat. morning they delivered it to the mailbox.
I just read an article about Americans who moved to Equator South America to live a cheap champaign life of leisure in retirement. Everything sounded super cool until they casually mentioned that they had absolutely no mail service. 😲
Never considered how I would manage without our USPS. Easy to take for granted and easy to complain about when .001% goes wrong. I think I'll appreciate it more after learning some places don't have our privilege.
well my package made it to mobile where it was determined to be undeliverable and returned to sender.
I don't use USPS anymore............at all............I check my mailbox at least once a month. It's mostly junk. I take care of bills online and if I am expecting something.........I go look in the box.........but USPS is a joke.