Shipping delays blamed on weather

[albertabrightalberta]

Both as a buyer and a seller, I'm seeing a pattern.

Within minutes of my packages getting acceptance scans, they are followed by a weather-related delivery exceptions. 

My purchase shipped January 27 - accepted January 27, 2025, 6:03 pm

Processing Exception, Regional Weather Delay - January 28, 2025, 6:40 pm

(Coming from Arkansas)

Several of my sales shipped January 29 - accepted January 29, 2025, 3:40 pm.

All 4: "Your package has a delivery exception. Your shipment has potentially been delayed due to weather conditions at 3:55 pm on January 29, 2025.

(Shipped from Massachusetts - there's no reason for a "weather delay" here. We're having "wind" but the packages hadn't even been picked up from the local post office by the time the "weather delay" happened.)

That this has happened on both shipments of a purchase as well as sales, I can't imagine that this is a misscan.

[indigomindcj]

It seems to be happening everywhere. I also have that same message, There is a huge conversation about in multiple forums on reddit.

[lakefor94]

Could be that USPS is still backed up from previous bad weather in certain regions. At least they are letting you know right away. 

In lieu of USPS GA, I have been testing UPS Ground Saver and having good results. 3 to 4 business days consistently.

Still using USPS GA on the light and inexpensive orders.

As usual, UPS Ground carries all the expensive and heavy shipments.

Been finding substantial savings on many shipments from PirateShip.  I am comparative shopping just about everything, aside from the 4-8 oz shipments. USPS gets all of those except expensive orders.

[wastingtime101]

Yep, it's on pretty much every transaction, even before there are any scans other than acceptance, even when packages get there in a few days without delay.

Better to have it than not to help with buyer expectations when they check tracking, however really crappy if USPS is using that to justify poor performance that's not related to weather events.

[albertabrightalberta]

Interestingly, tracking has updated and expected delivery dates are now a day earlier than they originally showed! 

"however really crappy if USPS is using that to justify poor performance that's not related to weather events." 

^^^ That's what I thought when I first saw the "exception," but now, I'm thinking it's a glitch in USPS's system and it's happening automatically and fixing itself when it gets it's next real scan. 

[broadwaynyc]

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@indigomindcj wrote:

It seems to be happening everywhere. I also have that same message, There is a huge conversation about in multiple forums on reddit.

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Which reddit forums?   

[broadwaynyc]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

Both as a buyer and a seller, I'm seeing a pattern.

Within minutes of my packages getting acceptance scans, they are followed by a weather-related delivery exceptions. 

My purchase shipped January 27 - accepted January 27, 2025, 6:03 pm

Processing Exception, Regional Weather Delay - January 28, 2025, 6:40 pm

(Coming from Arkansas)

Several of my sales shipped January 29 - accepted January 29, 2025, 3:40 pm.

All 4: "Your package has a delivery exception. Your shipment has potentially been delayed due to weather conditions at 3:55 pm on January 29, 2025.

(Shipped from Massachusetts - there's no reason for a "weather delay" here. We're having "wind" but the packages hadn't even been picked up from the local post office by the time the "weather delay" happened.)

That this has happened on both shipments of a purchase as well as sales, I can't imagine that this is a misscan.

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OMG.  I thought it was just me.

We had our big snowstorm Jan 18/19, yet the weather delay excuse was there for a package that FedEx handed off to USPS on Tuesday Jan 28. Except for being cold, there has not been anything unusual.

USPS is predicting that I will get the package tomorrow Jan 31. 

[aproudparent2010]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

Both as a buyer and a seller, I'm seeing a pattern.

Within minutes of my packages getting acceptance scans, they are followed by a weather-related delivery exceptions. 

My purchase shipped January 27 - accepted January 27, 2025, 6:03 pm

Processing Exception, Regional Weather Delay - January 28, 2025, 6:40 pm

(Coming from Arkansas)

Several of my sales shipped January 29 - accepted January 29, 2025, 3:40 pm.

All 4: "Your package has a delivery exception. Your shipment has potentially been delayed due to weather conditions at 3:55 pm on January 29, 2025.

(Shipped from Massachusetts - there's no reason for a "weather delay" here. We're having "wind" but the packages hadn't even been picked up from the local post office by the time the "weather delay" happened.)

That this has happened on both shipments of a purchase as well as sales, I can't imagine that this is a misscan.

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I'm in Missouri and had some scanned that way....weather is fine here.

[indigomindcj]

USPS, and some other forums. Google search pulls them all up. My package started moving again, and some others said theirs also started moving to next destination.

[worldcoinauctions]

Yeah got that too. I talked to our postman and he said that there was one day when the shipment of mail didn't come in, but my shipments are making good progress, most from that time frame are already delivered, scary message not withstanding.