@bitsofsiliconvalley wrote:
eBay's order tracker shows that my recent purchase arrived at the regional distribution center this morning at 9:00 AM, left it at 9:40, and arrived at my local post office at 9:15!
...or else someone at your local PO has forgotten to turn the scanner time ahead one hour, and the actual arrival time was 10:15, which fits a lot better into the chronology.
The weirdest configuration error I've ever seen was several years ago now, when some important piece of equipment was apparently relocated from New York to Chicago, and no one thought to update its location setting. For several weeks, it was possible to see a tracking history that arrived in Chicago (I forget which center, but probably Oak Park), got processed through New York (supposedly), then left from Chicago again an hour or so later.
It was ages before someone fixed it, by which time I had a good picture of how many buyers were actually checking their tracking, freaking out and asking me what the heck was going on.
