USPS Tracking (NOT TRACKING?)

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Used the USPS to send a check to a gun dealer yesterday morning. Current online tracking only shows that my local post office has it in their possession "yesterday 925am".

Since then - no updates! Anyone else have a problem with lacking updates? As a buyer I have had packages only show the "delivery" online but no movement through the postal service.

My local USPS said the tracking will be updated in the next city...what a joke.
 
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The one thing that I hate with usps or ups is when you finally type in all those numbers..................and double check to make sure that there is no mistake, and then............

They tell you that there is no such package.......

or that it went past you to a major center and will be coming back to you in a day or two.
 
When the Mexican Libertad 1 ounce Silver Coin disappeared apparently from the PO,
Jumped through the hoops, did the Man Overboard Procedure.
Via Email, the local Postal Authorities finally concurred it went missing while in their possession.
It was an eBay buy and eBay did finally activate their guarantee and refund my money.
 
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KalamazooKid said:
I fail to see the problem, your package will be delivered like 99.99999% of them are.
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Problem is the gun owner is holding the gun for me and has another interested buyer. I gave him tracking info which doesn't indicate that the payment is actually heading his way.

I'm sure it will arrive....
 
I think it is time to start complaining and taking more actions with our complains... Our complain, we simply demand they improve their system and give us the best services. They have been around since forever and I think we should be getting better services than what is provided to us right now... IMO
 
KalamazooKid said:
I fail to see the problem, your package will be delivered like 99.99999% of them are.
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Sure, but to whom?

Mailed a letter to the Social Security office literally 10 miles away. It went south to the sorting center 60 miles away in West Palm Beach. Then it went somewhere in upstate NY before continuing its journey to MA. It finally turned south and stopped in Miami. The next day it went back to the sorting center in WPB before being delivered to the SS office 10 miles away from me. It took 10 days to make the trip--a mile a day. Had I know that was going to happen, I would have dropped the letter off myself.

But the tracking worked, so I guess that was a good thing.:rolleyes:
 
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I order from Midway USA often and because I live 75 miles from them I will go pick up my order unless it is something small with a shipping charge cheaper than the gas I would use. When I have something shipped I have worked out the total mileage it travels to get to me Unless the package takes off across country it will travel around 275 miles passing my town twice before I get it. That is the way the system is set up and tracking provides some Entertainment if nothing else. I think there will be more shipping for me because of gas prices.
 
SMSgt said:
Sure, but to whom?

Mailed a letter to the Social Security office literally 10 miles away. It went south to the sorting center 60 miles away in West Palm Beach. Then it went somewhere in upstate NY before continuing its journey to MA. It finally turned south and stopped in Miami. The next day it went back to the sorting center in WPB before being delivered to the SS office 10 miles away from me. It took 10 days to make the trip--a mile a day. Had I know that was going to happen, I would have dropped the letter off myself.

But the tracking worked, so I guess that was a good thing.:rolleyes:
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Lesson learned, next time it may be better to just drop it off at the front desk.
 
usps has a tracking/update option. But it only works if you use it to indicate updates, and if the individual carriers are taking the time to scan packages. Something that seems to be occurring less often. Certainly it has absolutely nothing to do with people watching their mail ping pong around for days/weeks.

Trying to figure out how to complain about it to usps is an exercise in frustration, with no apparent responses from them. Not even that your complaint was received. However if you are persistent, a lot of times your delivery "magically appears". Certainly this has absolutely nothing to do with a tracking system for complaints/resolutions?
 
Tracking number info on my item, (to be shipped soon)
been same info since 12/21.
 
Maybe I am just a wet blanket but who in this day and age with all the info out there that the USPS is having issues with deliveries is going to ship a firearm thru them?
No way would I ship any firearm no matter the carrier that is not next day air adult signature required and fully Insured
You are just setting yourself up for heartache and problems if u don't
Just my 2 cents
God Bless,John
I can tell u this as someone who the post office lost a gun thru

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jringo8769 said:
Maybe I am just a wet blanket but who in this day and age with all the info out there that the USPS is having issues with deliveries is going to ship a firearm thru them?
No way would I ship any firearm no matter the carrier that is not next day air adult signature required and fully Insured
You are just setting yourself up for heartache and problems if u don't
Just my 2 cents
God Bless,John
I can tell u this as someone who the post office lost a gun thru

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I insure everything of value that I ship regardless of the carrier.
 
A forum member sent me a package and he emailed me the tracking number. It left Chapel Hill yesterday then went to Charlotte, then Charleston, WV and is now leaving Lexington, KY scheduled for delivery here tomorrow.

Pretty impressive considering the brazillions of pieces they move daily.
 
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Some people just need to have something to complain about. I've been doing a gun cabinet clean out sale for several months now. Everything i ship goes via USPS. Everything has arrived where it needed to be without issue.

KalamazooKid said:
I fail to see the problem, your package will be delivered like 99.99999% of them are.
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This probably happened all the time before we all had PCs and were able to check on it.
But the USPS has had a lot of staffing issues recently and I have seen an increase in delivery problems in the past 6 months.

Last quarterly billing cycle for my water/sewer service I got all the bills for everyone on the block stuffed into my mailbox. Walked them up the street and delivered them myself.
Have had two payment letters for stuff I sold here on the forum get lost. Both required a signature on delivery. One was delivered to the wrong address! Tracking Said it was delivered so I was able to catch the mailman at our roadside box the next day and explain the issue. Since it was signed, he was able to track it to a house with the same number but on a different street in the same neighborhood. He went back and retrieved it an I got it that same day. Apparently he was off the day before and there was a new driver. But I am just amazed that neither the other postman nor the signer noticed the wrong address.

Then there was a recent signature letter that sat in the PO until a forum member, the buyer who's payment it was, contacted the PO and got it moving to the right place. I had to go into my local POI to sign. In the past they would come to the door.

It's more than just the PO who contribute to the mess. Fed Ex delivered a package for me to the wrong address just up the street, at 119 instead of 109. When the postman drove by later the homeowner simply threw it out onto the lawn and yelled at him that he delivered it to the wrong house and that it was to go to 109. I was out front mowing the grass and when the post man came to our box and told me about it. Said that he could not legally touch it because it was a FedEx package. Not his problem, I guess but I can understand that. Walked up and got it myself.

My sister retired from the USPS after nearly 40 years. She said it was a mess when she left. Too many worthless employees who got their jobs because of the extra "entitlement" points given on their civil service exam make for more work for the good ones. Plus the covid pandemic was the final last straw for many experienced employees. All my local post offices have hire signs posted.

This is what happens when nobody cares about the other guy. The guy up the street who threw the FedEx package and cursed the postman was sitting on his porch when I went up and got it off his lawn. His was one of the water bills delivered by mistake to me. Maybe next time I'll just throw them all out and let them all pay the late fees when their payments are overdue. Naw... I'm not that kind of guy.

John
 
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My recent complaint to the USPS that a paid for 2 day Priority mail small PO box took 11 days to arrive at destination.
Tracking showed package sat in Kansas City a few days,then sat in Memphis a few days then sat in St Paul a few days and then delivery failures to top it off.
 
I just got a package from Numrich that took 19 days from NY to OR. It was on FedX. Wont be using them again if I can avoid it. By comparison I placed an order with Midsouth on thursday and it arrived here on tuesday via UPS. Midsouth actually lets you choose which carrier you want to pick. They also can show you the rate for each carrier before you pick.
 
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A few years ago I had a small gun parts package coming from Florida to Pennsylvania. It took almost two weeks to make it. It was a real comedy show. Tracking data showed it crossed the PA/MD border seven times before it made it to me. The local PO asked to examine the package and could find no reason for the ping-pong match between the two en route distro centers. They told me every so often something like that happens because some sender re-uses a box which has a bar code on it. By the same token, I once got an empty cardboard tube instead of the Springfield 03-A3 barrel I ordered. Called my local Postmaster, and he was nice enough to actually call the nearest distro center about it, giving my description of the item. They found it in a corner of their sorting center and sent it on to me for free. I got it the very next day!
 
erikpolcrack said:
A few years ago I had a small gun parts package coming from Florida to Pennsylvania. It took almost two weeks to make it. It was a real comedy show. Tracking data showed it crossed the PA/MD border seven times before it made it to me. The local PO asked to examine the package and could find no reason for the ping-pong match between the two en route distro centers. They told me every so often something like that happens because some sender re-uses a box which has a bar code on it. By the same token, I once got an empty cardboard tube instead of the Springfield 03-A3 barrel I ordered. Called my local Postmaster, and he was nice enough to actually call the nearest distro center about it, giving my description of the item. They found it in a corner of their sorting center and sent it on to me for free. I got it the very next day!
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Not to long ago I had a small flat rate box of nickel 9mm brass coming from Seattle to Portland. I was both shocked and amazed when I got the box and one corner had been neatly cut with a sharp knife and not a single piece of brass was found or delivered to me---but I did receive the empty box. The box was completely taped on all edges. Hard to fathom someone in the PO risking their job over a bunch of brass worth about $40. Every PO person (and there were many of them) I talked with mentioned how sometime boxes get damaged in a machine and the contents get out. Can you imagine the mess that 500 pieces of nickel 9 brass would make on the floor or in a machine. It took me about 3 months of hounding 3 local small town post offices to finally get a refund for the missing goods. They were so tired of me they also paid for the shipping. Several days after I had been paid---remember this took over 3 months, I got a registered letter telling me my claim had been denied.
Our goberment hard at work using our dollars!
 
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Why would you ask the local police to investigate this? It's completely outside their jurisdiction and area of competency.

If I were concerned that there was something fishy going on, I'd ask the shipper to contact the Postal Inspectors for investigation.



erikpolcrack said:
A few years ago I had a small gun parts package coming from Florida to Pennsylvania. It took almost two weeks to make it. It was a real comedy show. Tracking data showed it crossed the PA/MD border seven times before it made it to me. The local PO asked to examine the package and could find no reason for the ping-pong match between the two en route distro centers. They told me every so often something like that happens because some sender re-uses a box which has a bar code on it. By the same token, I once got an empty cardboard tube instead of the Springfield 03-A3 barrel I ordered. Called my local Postmaster, and he was nice enough to actually call the nearest distro center about it, giving my description of the item. They found it in a corner of their sorting center and sent it on to me for free. I got it the very next day!
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