For your amusement -- the most convoluted USPS tracking history I have ever seen.

[my_feedback_is_meaningless]

I'm sorry. I had to share this with people who are likely to appreciate the absurdity.  No worries. This item has already been refunded. Follow the USPS link. Expand the Tracking History. 

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9400111699000210324163

[orangehound]

[a_c_green]

Looks like it got stuck in a USPS container traveling between sorting offices. Once the package is logged as going into a particular container, tracking will follow the container rather than the package, unless or until the package itself is scanned once again. 

If you request your local post office to check their in-house intranet system, they can tell you which of those entries were package scans and which were container scans. The package will eventually resurface and get delivered; it's only been on the road for 11 days. If it's a high-value item, you might want to consider getting it intercepted and returned to you. Cost is $14.10 plus the Priority postage required to return it to you. (There's no charge if it is not successfully intercepted.)

Ref: https://www.usps.com/manage/package-intercept.htm

[ed8108]

Curious that USPS hasn't added this mail article will be arriving late

At least your package is within the system & has a great deal of package movement but lacking in progress.  

[trehar_4]

I has exactly the same problem with one of my packages last week.  Clearly someone put it in the wrong  container at the regional sorting station.  Fortunately my package still arrived within the estimated delivery time.  However it was a rough ride through the continent.

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tRef=fullpage&tLc=2&text28777=&tLabels=9400109699937629...

[my_feedback_is_meaningless]

I would buy the container explanation if it was only cycling between two locations.. but it's cycled between at least two sets of locations. The container theory can't explain that. Can it?  

It's a $5 cell phone accessory, and the seller has already refunded. I would've paid that much just for the amusement value of watching it bounce around the system....

[a_c_green]

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@my_feedback_is_meaningless wrote:

I would buy the container explanation if it was only cycling between two locations.. but it's cycled between at least two sets of locations. The container theory can't explain that. Can it?

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Well, it's not really a theory ; it's how packages travel between sort facilities. The in-house USPS intranet tracking data identifies, for each scan event, whether it was a package scan or a container scan.

The container itself goes wherever a facility needs to send it next: either back and forth, or maybe somewhere else based on traffic needs, but in any event, once the system is told that Package X has now gone into Container Y, it will continue to track the movements of Container Y until Package X itself pops up for scanning someplace.

[blu_owlie]

This made me giggle a lot. Thanks for sharing - definitely needed this today!

[itsjustasprain]

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@my_feedback_is_meaningless wrote:

I'm sorry. I had to share this with people who are likely to appreciate the absurdity.  No worries. This item has already been refunded. Follow the USPS link. Expand the Tracking History. 

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9400111699000210324163

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According to the tracking it arrived this morning at the post office in San Antonio TX. It will probably be delivered today.