USPS tracking
Just a minor gripe. I have a small part time PO I deal with. The postmaster is great. With the latest USPS changes, any mail a customers drops off on any day does NOT leave that office until the next morning when the local mail is dropped off. There are NO more afternoon pickups. As a result, everything takes 2-3 days longer to get where it is going. This is occurring in most post offices now. Strangely, ALL my packages tracking say they left the PO around noon the same day they were accepted. Postmaster has no idea why the tracking says that, he is not doing it. So I must wonder is USPS putting in some sort of automatic tracking just to make it look like your packages are moving when in reality they are not? Can I please have some honesty for once? smh
christworks
·8 months ago@kibble-net So you are claiming fraud 11 months before an election?
Yeah, if I had a bunch of nutcases representing my party, I'd be worried, too. 😆
selsa84
·8 months agoWasn't trump always claiming fraud.
soh.maryl
·8 months agoIf we're referring to a Presidential election, it's quite a bit farther away than 11 months.
a_c_green
·8 months agoIt is indeed happening at POs that are more than 50 miles from their origin sort facility, as others have already noted, but a 1-day delay in collection does not become a 2-3 delay to get where it's going. Once it's in the mailstream, it's moving at the same speed as everything else.
As long as your PO is doing an Acceptance scan as they are expected to do, eBay will recognize that you have shipped the package. Whether it's delayed by a day going forward (as mine are) doesn't matter.
If your PO is consistently failing to scan packages when received, and complaints to the regional office are not working, then consider extending your Handling time just long enough so that scans that will occur (when Accepted at origin sort) will not be late in eBay's eyes.
greatstuff80
OP8 months agoI was just making an observation how things work where I am. I am not worried about ebay. I don't sell much so I don't worry about it. Again just telling what it's like where I'm at. My postmaster scans them accepted right in front of me and hand writes and stamps a receipt for me. They do not have the machines that print out receipts. It sits there overnight, then goes and sits 20 miles down the road at another PO another day where it doesn't get scanned coming or going at all. Both postmasters have confirmed the packages are there and they are not scanning packages leaving their facilities. They're friends and we gab about how nuts it is all the time. They have no control over any of it and just do what they're told and hope their jobs are still there tomorrow. Quite a few have lost their jobs already. Package shipped Monday didn't get to our local main distribution center until Thursday when it finally gets a real ? scan again. It used to be same or next day. It's quite obvious USPS is auto generating scans that are not accurate. Welcome to rural America.
a_c_green
·8 months agoThat's okay; as soon as you hear the scanner beep, it's in the system. Incidentally, they do have accessory wireless receipt printers available, although they may be few and far between, especially in working order with good batteries and a roll of paper:
Okay, at this point they're supposed to be a doing a container scan (for arrival or departure), and all the packages they've handled up to that point are assumed to have gone into that container. They make one scan of the container's bar code, and that is logged as either a departure or arrival in the tracking history of every package within. (What you see in the tracking history of your package is a combination of direct scans and container scans. Their in-house intranet system can tell them which type of scan was made for each entry.)
No, there's no such thing as an "auto-generated" scan. The closest to that would be the In Transit entries in a package log, put in as fillers to say that the package hasn't arrived at its next stop yet. There can be up to three In-Transit entries in a tracking history before updates are put on hold, pending the next actual direct or container scan. They are usually removed from the history once the next actual update occurs.
kibble-net
·8 months agoRight now the current administration is trying to do everything they can to slow down USPS for a couple of reasons:
1) So they can claim USPS is underperforming and try to privatize it and turn it into UPS (if you think small parcels cost a lot NOW just wait till they do this!)
2) So they can throw out mail-in ballots, claiming they didn't arrive in time.
Mr. DeJoy is doing everything they hoped for and more. Elections have consequences.
kensgiftshop
·8 months agoI thought he was gone?
tobaccocardyahoo
·8 months agoDejoy is gone, having proved that one cannot maintain the service levels USPS had and make a profit.
Making it worse will not serve the administration's interests, in itself.
Expect a proposal to sell it off piecemeal, if they could find anyone who would buy it.
The recent changes might affect whether anyone will be interested in bidding. There is little doubt that there are cost savings in the 60% which were affected.
soh.maryl
·8 months agoInteresting. For a long time, have wondered how soon the USPS will become an Amazon service.
tobaccocardyahoo
·8 months agoThe goal of the changes made at the time of the one trip to the distribution center/day change was a 2 day increase in time to deliver.
60% of the POs, those which are more than 50 miles from the nearest distribution center, get only one trip per day. That is not volume related.
Both were part of the USPS announcement of these changes.
That part of the OPs post is absolutely correct.
Scans showing the local PO are definitely not occurring in the PO. I have verified that with my own PO. They are being automatically generated at the first distribution center. The time shown on them is some period of time before it reached the distribution center. In my case it is a period which is shorter than it takes to reach the distribution center.
Could the interval between when the phony scan appears to have occurred and when it is triggered be different in different places - why not?
Complicating matters is the fact that at any given time, the USPS tracking and estimated delivery date displayed by Ebay may not reflect what the USPS website shows. When the Ebay site updates the tracking data is not predictable.
stainlessenginecovers
·8 months agoHow does 'shipping out 1 DAY later' equate to "2-3 Days longer'??
I know the answer.
It doesn't.
If your packages are showing 'same day' then their 'scanner' is off (not dialed in correctly).
Every PO is different, depends on volume, population etc. Some get 1 truck a day, others 3 a day. Some trucks show at 10am, others at 5am. Depends on where it's coming from and where all it is going to. Trucks don't just go to 1 location.
Therefore, It's NOT a blanket statement and you will NOT find an 'answer' that does not vary.