The shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line -- unless you're USPS!
A couple days ago, I had ordered a book from a business from Brooklyn Center, MN, which is only about 13 miles from my home.
Under the mistaken belief that the sender would send the book directly to my eBay address, I anticipated receiving the book within a couple days.
But -- thanks to the "new and improved" USPS "Delivery For America" Plan -- USPS decided to ship the book first to Glendale Heights, IL, where the book arrived on July 24.
Hopefully, after my book has concluded its site-seeing tour of Illinois, it will decide to proceed to it's original destination -- only 12.8 miles from the original seller.
Unless it plans to hike the Appalachian Trail -- in which case I should expect to receive my item later this fall.
I guess it's a good thing that we are not in a "state of emergency" -- imagine waiting this long for something that might actually be a necessity. . ..
mlfknives
·1 year agoConsider yourself lucky. I have a package that I sent out last month and it hasn’t updated since June 28. The last update it had was in New Brunsfel, Texas and the package is supposed to go to Indiana from upstate New York. That’s $648.52 that I’m gonna get robbed of because of USPS is extreme incompetence and negligence. I didn’t realize until trying to get my money back for that package that USPS will only cover what it was insured for. I was never warned they wouldn’t pay for their own mistakes without insurance, and I never agreed to them having no liability. USPS, technically has sovereign immunity, which FedEx and UPS do not have. I also have a package that hasn’t updated since July 4th on it’s way to Germany, that’s about $420 that I’m gonna be liable for. That package the last update that it actually had was on June 30 where it said arrived at Atlanta, Georgia. It never mentions it departed Atlanta, Georgia, the fourth of July update just says in transit to next facility. That package should’ve never been in Georgia in the first place. When you’re sending a package internationally from the northeast, it also leaves a USPS terminal in the northeast not Atlanta, Georgia. That’s over $1000 that I’m gonna get robbed of all because of USPS and never receiving any warning that they only pay for stuff based on the insured value. I find it completely ridiculous that I’m expected to pay for insurance when I already paid them to complete the job properly once. I also find it a complete and total violation of my due process rights that I was never warned, and never agreed to them having no liability.
chapeau-noir
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cityslickercreations2004
·1 year agoMy understanding is mail doesn't go directly from 1 post office to another post office. The mail is sent a assigned or regional sorting hub for that area. From there it is put on delivery trucks going in all directions.
My city used to have a hub but it was closed years ago and now our mail is sent to Fort Wayne.
tobaccocardyahoo
·1 year agoHuman beings can make errors.
A misrouted package or often a box or bag of packages can need to backtrack when misrouted.
I can ship from my town which is more than 50 miles from routing center it feeds. It is subject to the new one pickup a day rule.
I can ship from a town across the river in Maine, which is not limited to one daily pick up in Maine. All shipments from that town go North, even if the destination is southern.
I do not buy anything which is mailed to me, if it is an urgent purchase. If one of my purchases arrives late, I can live with it.
As I get older, and my memory fails, I have learned to plan ahead. Some people cannot seem to learn to do this, I need not pay more postage to deal with other postal patron's learning disabilities.
simba6
·1 year agoI have had some bounce between to postal centers a few times. Sort of like a pin ball machine. Then kicked out and delivered. On the bright side you do get more for your shipping fees.
airsheep
·1 year agoMore time in transit? 😄
I swear that frequently packages coming to Hawaii are simply duct taped to a passing whale...
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoAlot of my packages get a tour of my state before I actually receive them. I live just a few miles (around 13 or so) from the town they have to go through before they get to our little rural post office.
You'd think we weren't even on the map sometimes. From the regional hub to said office then sent back to the regional hub then to a different town after the regional hub sends it back. Over and over again. I always end up getting my packages in the end but.......?
In the last few years I've only had one INR scenario. A package from Arizona and the seller refunded me without me having to file. Seller noticed no movement after some time and messaged me they were going to refund then did. It just dissappeared. I'm so used to packages sometimes arriving well after the estimated date I didn't even notice and hadn't checked tracking. Good seller. Repeat customer....................
tinsoldierunderground
·1 year ago@1786davycrockett
Yes, it's crazy. I'm on the west side of Tampa bay. A while back, I needed to send some documents to the county courthouse in Clearwater, about 8 miles due north of my home. Tracking showed that they went down to Sarasota, back north to Ybor city, then the Tampa hub, and finally arriving in Clearwater. I thought this was a fluke until I sent a package to north Florida and experienced the same thing.
mudshark61369
·1 year ago@1786davycrockett ,
If the seller you're having issues with is GW,Mn. You should have looked at their feedback profile before buying from them. They have a decent percentage but only because of the volume of their sales. They have over 700 nonpositive feedback for all sorts of reasons.
Charity based stores tend to have clueless volunteers helping with their ebay shipping. Glendale Hgts. Illinois is the hub for ebay's international shipping. So chances are someone entered the wrong tracking number to the listing you bought from, or put the wrong label on the book. Glendale, may also be a USPS Ground Advantage hub, so keep an eye on the tracking, it may start wending its way back to Mn. and your home, or it may end up in another country.
"In one physical model of the universe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line in the opposite direction".
Ty Webb
aka Chevy Chase, Caddyshack.
mlfknives
·1 year agoThat’s some not very helpful advice because the seller is allowed to delete their negative feedback. Which I’ve personally experienced after somebody tried to rob me with a counterfeit knife I left a horrible review and they were able to have it deleted and removed. Looking at the feedback should be a starting point, but it definitely doesn’t tell you everything about a seller. The Ty Webb I know, overdosed and died at a bus stop on his way down to Virginia. True story I’m sure you can find it still, it was technically Tyler.
mlfknives
·1 year agoyour second quote sounds like Murphy’s Law by the way, which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Robert Henlein
krazzykats
·1 year agoIt seems more likely that the book arrived at a distribution center in Illinois from somewhere else, rather than just 12 miles away from you. The seller might only be located 12 miles from you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the actual book was with the seller.
The seller could simply be another distributor reselling books. imho
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