Priority Mail Package Being Bounced Around Post Offices, No Updates in 2 Days?!

[piccolola]

So I sent out a package on the 11th, 2-day priority mail from the Philadelphia Area to New Jersey (a trip that often takes one day.)

Somehow this package has been bounced to FOUR DIFFERENT New Jersey facilities since then, and STILL hasn't reached the destination. The last info updated by the USPS was on the 13th, 2 days ago.

It just so happens this is a package for which paypal is holding my $200 in funds for (I still don't understand why, as I have had sales go through since and the funds were not held.)

What in the hell is going on? I know if I call 1800ASKUSPS they are just going to see the same tracking info that I see and have no updates for me! 😞

[partial*eclipse]

What's the buyer's ZIP Code?

[piccolola]

07064 - about five minutes drive from the post office the package has allegedly been waiting at for days.

[myboardid]

Sounds like they have mis-placed your package.  Did you insure it?  If so, make a claim.  If not, you may be SOL. 

Somehow, if you sign up for email notices of scanning information, it sometimes kicks a package lose.  It would be worth a try. 

[piccolola]

I'm not sure where to sign up to get email notices for an outgoing package. I'm only seeing how to sign up for "informed delivery", ie: scans of incoming packages at my address.

[piccolola]

I spoke to the USPS customer service number this morning. I was told that all of those various locations being scanned in were "computer generated" and to ignore them. The whole thing is just baffling, but at least now I have a case number.

[piccolola]

...then I called the regional post office it says the package is sitting at, and the guy there swore it was "definitely delivered" and that it went out with their "thousands of pieces of mail" that day. He was REALLY condescending, but he just said that somehow they didn't scan the delivery in properly and he was going to take care of it. 😕