@kjnshop5 wrote:
Okay, I can accept wrong truck. That might explain why it disappeared for 4 days and did not show up in Indiana but rather back at Denver's "Origin Facility". I'm hoping that with two days transport that it'll show up in IN tomorrow morning.
It's just a little concerting that when when investigated, USPS stated they didn't know where it was....
The key here is that per your description, it's only been 24 hours or so since the last scan of the package, which in USPS terms is nothing, really. Packages can normally go several days without a scan; there's no requirement for them to have one periodically or at scheduled intervals.
I don't have a lot of faith in their search requests (though I have filed them myself; no harm in doing so if circumstances warrant). The notices can end up in the hands of someone who's too busy to do much in terms of real research (e.g. checking their in-house intranet to see if there are any further clues about where it might be), so they'll close it out without doing any real work on it, assuming that the system will burp it out sooner or later, and usually, it eventually does.
I think the only time when these reports generate an actual response is when multiple independent reports come in about the same date or location, showing a pattern of missing items that might all share a common denominator, such as all going in the same container from the same location. They'll go off in search of that container, because finding it will clear up several missing reports in one swell foop.
I think the most common bottleneck is a queue in arrivals at sort facilities, which can only handle so much throughput in a given time period. This month's disaster, at least in the Chicago area, appears to be Elk Grove Village, where several of my recent shipments have gone to die. After anywhere from one to two weeks, they eventually make it out the door there and pop up in other parts of the country. Patience is a virtue...
