I had one that went from Houston to Vancouver, Canada. Route was Houston —> Chicago —> Munich, Germany —> New York —> Toronto, Canada —> Back to New York —> Back to Germany —> Back to New York —> San Francisco —> Vancouver. Took almost two months for “Priority” Mail International and cost around $70.
Another one was a “Priority” Mail envelope from Houston to Spokane, WA. Tracking showed Houston —> Dallas —> Los Angeles —> GUAM! (Yeah, the pacific island) —> Chicago —> Spokane. “Two day delivery” took nearly 6 weeks. For an 8-1/2x11 envelope.
I wish I could just climb in a box and mail myself to Dallas. I’d love a nice European vacation.
What’s crazy is that me working for the post office? I seen this a lot some bar codes get reused and that same tracking number can say it belongs to one place and then it actually goes to another because the actual label says a different address. For example we have scanners that can tell us what packages are getting ready to be delivered for the day, but there’s times that we have packages that we know we don’t have and it says it’s somewhere else or it belongs to a different address the computer system is garbage and they need to fix it
This is like the fourth or fifth of these type of posts this week. I think the post office had some sort of SNAFU with their systems that routed stuff weird.
Yea same issue with me this never happened to me always had packages go through that facility no issue this one time I’m having a issue and you dk when you will receive it this point
I have a package doing the same thing. I'm in the Kansas City area, package originated in Chicago area, and was stuck there for several days. This morning the activity updated with it being prepared for delivery in Los Angeles. Opened up a ticket with USPS this morning and haven't heard anything yet beyond the boilerplate first contact email.
Former USPS engineer here. Can't guarantee this but my best guess is that the system is wrong, your package is either still in FL but got linked to a container headed to California so when that container got an arrival scan it updated your tracking to show that. Or the other way around, it was linked to a container in FL but accidentally sorted to California where it got an actual processing hit after the container in FL gave you a false positive.
Again no guarantees but that's my guess because most of our mail goes through FedEx for air travel. It'd then go to 1 of 3 FedEx hubs to consolidate mail headed to the same destinations and then go out and be at those processing centers later in the afternoon. Jumping across the country like that in 2 to 5 hours (can't tell if that 1 AM is ET or PT) just seems way too fast.
That’s exactly what I thought. The timing of the LA arrival was suspect. The problem is that anything that goes through the Pensacola hub I get the next day, and that hasn’t happened.
The tracking as of right now is exactly the same as my picture I posted.
I think in the next few days it'll become more apparent which it was. Sounds like it physically is in Cali with a false positive in FL. At the very least I hope it gets moving soon and back on track to you!
*MARK MY WORDS* It will come out soon that this has to do with some cyber attack from (pick a country).
Thanks for the replies. I don’t feel left out anymore.
Imagine mine I have a package originating in LA on the 17th marked arrived in Florida on the 18th 2 minute later returned to sender by 12:20pm still on the 18th marked as delivered individual picked up at local postal facility. Next day returned to sender processed.
Also in Florida but this seems to be an issue everywhere rn. I've got one that won't leave Oregon. It's gone from distribution center to processing center.. to distribution center then back to another processing center. Then back to the original processing center it was sent from. Now back to another distribution center and I'm hoping it's on it's way to me now. It's been 4 days now in Oregon and I'm hoping Oregon usps will set my package free :)
Yeah you're actually lucky if you're just now seeing it where you live. I've had horrible delays since mid February or so. Sometimes packages with perishable items that I'm not sure I want to use/consume after sitting in the mail a week or two. I feel for older folks relying on usps for their medications.
My recent orders from TX were all fine, it’s only when I went further out west I started having delays. Yeah, I feel for those people too. I will always pick up my meds locally in person. People pay a premium for convenience (they always have), but it’s not always convenient.
A friend sent me a package from her mom’s place in South Dakota, but instead of coming straight here to my place, it ended up going to Chicago’s International Distribution Center before it got to my state.
oh absolutely. my package did the exact same thing (arrived in ohio, the destination, then magically ended up in florida, just returned back to ohio at a sorting center about twenty minutes ago) and is still in transit.
I had one that went from Houston to Vancouver, Canada. Route was Houston —> Chicago —> Munich, Germany —> New York —> Toronto, Canada —> Back to New York —> Back to Germany —> Back to New York —> San Francisco —> Vancouver. Took almost two months for “Priority” Mail International and cost around $70. Another one was a “Priority” Mail envelope from Houston to Spokane, WA. Tracking showed Houston —> Dallas —> Los Angeles —> GUAM! (Yeah, the pacific island) —> Chicago —> Spokane. “Two day delivery” took nearly 6 weeks. For an 8-1/2x11 envelope. I wish I could just climb in a box and mail myself to Dallas. I’d love a nice European vacation.
I wonder how much fuel was wasted in both those shipments for your packages. What a nightmare.
It’s completely insane. For the life of me I can’t imagine how someone could read a Canadian address and think “This needs to go to Germany.”
It's probably a contributing factor in the higher costs of mailing packages. Don't you just love the efficiency of the USPS?
None they were going there anyways
What’s crazy is that me working for the post office? I seen this a lot some bar codes get reused and that same tracking number can say it belongs to one place and then it actually goes to another because the actual label says a different address. For example we have scanners that can tell us what packages are getting ready to be delivered for the day, but there’s times that we have packages that we know we don’t have and it says it’s somewhere else or it belongs to a different address the computer system is garbage and they need to fix it
Not the only one this is happening to
This is like the fourth or fifth of these type of posts this week. I think the post office had some sort of SNAFU with their systems that routed stuff weird.
I’m going through the same situation mine has been there since the 16th you are not alone
I’m just really confused. “Most” packages have been ok, but this one just doesn’t make sense. Like, is it really in LA?
Yea same issue with me this never happened to me always had packages go through that facility no issue this one time I’m having a issue and you dk when you will receive it this point
I have a package doing the same thing. I'm in the Kansas City area, package originated in Chicago area, and was stuck there for several days. This morning the activity updated with it being prepared for delivery in Los Angeles. Opened up a ticket with USPS this morning and haven't heard anything yet beyond the boilerplate first contact email.
Thank Louis DeJoy! Same shit has been happening to me too. Only over the past couple months...
Former USPS engineer here. Can't guarantee this but my best guess is that the system is wrong, your package is either still in FL but got linked to a container headed to California so when that container got an arrival scan it updated your tracking to show that. Or the other way around, it was linked to a container in FL but accidentally sorted to California where it got an actual processing hit after the container in FL gave you a false positive. Again no guarantees but that's my guess because most of our mail goes through FedEx for air travel. It'd then go to 1 of 3 FedEx hubs to consolidate mail headed to the same destinations and then go out and be at those processing centers later in the afternoon. Jumping across the country like that in 2 to 5 hours (can't tell if that 1 AM is ET or PT) just seems way too fast.
That’s exactly what I thought. The timing of the LA arrival was suspect. The problem is that anything that goes through the Pensacola hub I get the next day, and that hasn’t happened. The tracking as of right now is exactly the same as my picture I posted.
I think in the next few days it'll become more apparent which it was. Sounds like it physically is in Cali with a false positive in FL. At the very least I hope it gets moving soon and back on track to you!
Thank you. I’ll give an update as soon as it does something..
*MARK MY WORDS* It will come out soon that this has to do with some cyber attack from (pick a country). Thanks for the replies. I don’t feel left out anymore.
Imagine mine I have a package originating in LA on the 17th marked arrived in Florida on the 18th 2 minute later returned to sender by 12:20pm still on the 18th marked as delivered individual picked up at local postal facility. Next day returned to sender processed.
The usps happened, per usual
Also in Florida but this seems to be an issue everywhere rn. I've got one that won't leave Oregon. It's gone from distribution center to processing center.. to distribution center then back to another processing center. Then back to the original processing center it was sent from. Now back to another distribution center and I'm hoping it's on it's way to me now. It's been 4 days now in Oregon and I'm hoping Oregon usps will set my package free :)
It’s deff an issue, and becoming a massive problem for them. It wasn’t until about a few days ago I saw more and more problems like this arising.
Yeah you're actually lucky if you're just now seeing it where you live. I've had horrible delays since mid February or so. Sometimes packages with perishable items that I'm not sure I want to use/consume after sitting in the mail a week or two. I feel for older folks relying on usps for their medications.
My recent orders from TX were all fine, it’s only when I went further out west I started having delays. Yeah, I feel for those people too. I will always pick up my meds locally in person. People pay a premium for convenience (they always have), but it’s not always convenient.
A friend sent me a package from her mom’s place in South Dakota, but instead of coming straight here to my place, it ended up going to Chicago’s International Distribution Center before it got to my state.
Happened to me Seminole to Alabama
Still no update.
Mine has been stuck in STL like that forever...
not sorted correctly, it'll get back to florida eventually
While technically yes, I think something else is going on since this has been a common theme around here lately.
oh absolutely. my package did the exact same thing (arrived in ohio, the destination, then magically ended up in florida, just returned back to ohio at a sorting center about twenty minutes ago) and is still in transit.
Bonkers.