Tracking number shows item delivered to wrong address.

[pavge-0]

The tacking number for an item which I have ordered, shows it having been delivered to the wrong address—which mistake I was able to detect even before the package went “Out for Delivery”, but the USPS costumer care representative said it could not be rerouted. She also suggested another possibility: that the seller could have supplies me with the wrong tracking number.

Now I was wondering, which of these two scenarios is more likely?

[pavge-0]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@pavge-0 wrote:
You’re probably right. The seller received my message and gave me a different tracking number. The package is supposed to arrive today.

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Sounds good. I forgot to mention in my previous reply that if you get a free account on usps.com, you can choose to get tracking updates for inbound packages to your address, even if you don't know the tracking number or were not even expecting a package (such as one ordered by someone else in your household). It's enormously useful for knowing what to expect, and when.

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I did not know that.

[a_c_green]

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@pavge-0 wrote:
I did not know that.

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I've been in it for so long that I forgot how to find it (I think they originally called it myUSPS), but it's now part of the Informed Delivery program, which is here: 

https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action

I don't bother with the Preview Incoming Mail option for getting grayscale images of incoming letters, but I do like the Track Packages option. That gives me heads-up emails sometimes days in advance, plus day-of-delivery notifications. The final Delivered notice generally arrives within about two minutes of the package getting scanned going into our mailbox.