@skipbif_72 wrote:
It's still in limbo. I just wonder how it can actually get there without a single scan? How is that even possible?
The short answer is that I don't know. But I'm in Tech Support, so I'll make something up. 
Let's assume first of all that your package label is intact (how did you stick it to the package?) and legible (good printing?), like the other five that you shipped that day. For travel purposes, it doesn't matter whether it gets scanned at your post office, because it's going on the truck anyway, and the automated conveyor scanners at the origin sort facility should spot it there.
If the origin sort sees a package that does not have any prior in-network scan (e.g. Acceptance, Departure from Post Office; any scan that they did themselves), it creates a special "Acceptance at Sort Facility" record (or similar verbiage). That will show the time of scanning and the origination city and ZIP. (This is kind of an oddball entry, as it's the only one I'm aware of that does not show the location where it occurred; it shows the location where it should have occurred.) Things should proceed as usual after that.
Here's where things seem to go weird sometimes, including this time, apparently. I have an idea (and here is where I start making stuff up 
) that if the package manages to miss the origin sort acceptance as well, then any further scans deeper into the package stream are simply discarded. Thus the package doesn't show anywhere at all until Delivery.
Once it reaches the delivery address, the carrier will scan it like any other package; there would be nothing special about it. At that point, the tracking number is either posted automatically (at last!), or the carrier gets some kind of Package Unknown error, at which point he forces the upload by keying the number in manually, something like that. (He's expected to account for every package, so he is motivated to get it to work.)
That's all I got. Basically, wait and see. You could also take your tracking number to your post office (don't waste your time trying this on the phone) and ask them to look it up on their in-house intranet system, which will have a lot more tracking detail than what you can see on their public website, but if it's escaped basic scanning up to this point, I'm not sure what other kind of data would have been gathered on it.
Anyway, these things do eventually work themselves out.
