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I sent a small box of Christmas gifts to North Carolina through the US postal service to our granddaughter of the heart on Tuesday the 16th of December.
I paid extra for 3 day delivery to make sure it was delivered on Friday the 19th so the presents would be under her tree before Xmas.
Let’s follow said package’s tortuous journey through tracking, shall we?
*Please read from the bottom of the pictures to the top*
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16th – Package left my town.
18th – Arrived and departed Boston.
So far, so good.
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19th – Package is back in Maine.
Why? I have no idea.
20th – Package leaves Maine and arrives in New Hampshire…
Okay, at least it’s headed south again.
But later in the day it’s back in Maine again. What the…
What!
21rst – Package leaves Maine, for the third time.
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21rst – Package arrives in New Hampshire.
22nd – Package is in transit to next facility.
But in actuality it didn’t go anywhere.
23rd – Package leaves New Hampshire and arrives in Massachusetts.
Let’s recap.
Maine to Massachusetts to Maine to NH to Maine to NH …for 3 days where it apparently bounced in and out of the warehouse…to Massachusetts.
7 days and it never managed to leave New England. WTH?
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On Christmas Eve it finally arrived in the South. Probably this way…
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Though I don’t understand how it arrived in Fayetteville, left Fayetteville and arrived back in Fayetteville in the course of 28 minutes.
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Ten days after it left Maine, my (3 day delivery) box of gifts arrived at its destination.
Better late than never should be the new postal service’s motto.
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River's world..... 
It would have been faster back in the 1950s!!!!!! PROGRESS???
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So they say…
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Haha!
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I’m not surprised. Saw this happen domestically here in 🇨🇦. Meh.
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I understand they’re over worked and under staffed, but don’t promise what you can’t deliver… and charge me extra.
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I’m not sure companies really want us to be able to track shipping progress. It is entertaining, but frustrating. I’m awaiting a package ordered on the 17th. It appears that they didn’t get around to even looking at my order until the 22nd. It took five days to get from NY to PA, then 12 hours to get to IL, where it has sat for two more days. Might be here early next year. It’s still in the hands of a “shipping partner” with USPS still waiting for it. At lest I didn’t pay extra for three day shipping. I feel your pain.
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Just tell me the chances of it arriving on time. If it’s going to be ten days, tell me ten days. I hate disappointing a child on Christmas.
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Reminds me of Indian postal service in Rakshabandhan. Every hindu sister sends packages to her brothers on this event. My cousin’s package reached in one and half month. Mine in 10 days.
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A month and a half?
Damn, that’s bad!
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I ordered a gift for one of the Kiddos.
It didn’t ship until after Xmas.
When it arrived, the box was huge, way bigger and heavier than it should be.
And had labels on the outside of the box for both the gift I ordered and a completely different item.
It was the completely different item…
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Ugh.
You win…
Or lose, as the case may be.
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Oh dear! How frustrating. We have had that happen, too. It is nonsensical.
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I can understand it being misplaced, of forgotten in a corner. But being shipped back to its state of origin 3 times?
That’s just nuts.
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In the past couple of years, for whatever reason on occasion the Postal Service send packages “away” from us to get to us. It’s so weird to see your item headed in the wrong direction, but I’m sure they know what they are doing.😁
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I, on the other hand… am not.
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