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Neither snow nor rain… my *ss.

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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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35 thoughts on “Neither snow nor rain… my *ss.”

  3. 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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  5. 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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  7. 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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  9. I obsessively track packages tho I don’t get as invested now as much as I used to – now it’s for entertainment purposes only. I once tracked a FedEx package from NC to LA to MO to TN and then finally to VA – took a week or so and the company could have had someone stick it in the back of their car and driven it to me in less time and probably less expense but it was their money not mine, so – (On the 29th I received a Christmas card that was mailed on the 17th from NYC).

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  12. I must say, that Did make me laugh. Seems like most of our packages get to travel more then we do. I sent someone a Birthday gift from Amazon. Was originally going to arrive on 12/24…then Jan 14th…now it’s supposed to get there Tomorrow! So, we will see! Her Birthday was on the 26th of December.

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  13. Oh, same here. My ExStepmother sent a box on the 18th of December and it arrived yesterday. In this case, it sat in New England for a day or two and then sat at a distribution center 2 hours northwest of Los Angeles for an entire week–possibly because of the storms impacting the I-15. However, my friend M also sent a package from Orlando, FL on the 18th. It arrived on the 22nd. Getting stuff from rural New Hampshire and Virginia takes FOREVER since DeJoy gutted rural distribution centers.

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  14. That’s maddening! What the hell? Tracking packages is one of my little pleasures . . . unless it all goes wrong like yours did. Or when it arrives somewhere and just sits and sits and sits. Those are the times I wish there was no such thing as tracking. I’d rather not know.

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