USPS has added a stop to all our shipments

[a-lotta-stuff]

We're in New Mexico. When we first moved here [2004] anything going west first stop was Tucson AZ [left of us], everything else El Paso Tx [right]. At some point Tucson 'went away' and all went to El Paso. 

Now shipments are taking longer and the reason is Albuquerque NM [above] has been added after El Paso.  The thing going to Fla went 'up' before 'down and to the right' . Same with the Phoenix one only that's up then down/left.

One even went right back to El Paso. According  to the tracking this started happening mid Feb. Has added at least a day when it goes smoothly but a few have sat in Alb a day or two.  No idea why it was added.

[m*and*l*sales]

It would be amusing if not so maddening.  I once watched an outbound package make circles around Ohio before finally leaving the state to go wherever it was supposed to go.  Cleveland, Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Columbus, and finally it got off the merry-go-round.

I wish I could tell the Post Office to avoid Akron - please, avoid Akron - packages that go there seem to take at least an extra day just sitting there.

Sometimes packages go past what seems a sensible intermediary stop, but they make it back...eventually.

I haven't had one go completely missing yet.  They just take their sweet time getting where they are supposed to go. 

I imagine sometimes that a box is hidden under a desk or something, dropped off a mountainous pile on a wheeled bin and it slides off, to be found by a janitorial crew in a day or so...and then tracking begins again.  Whether that is the case or not, I have no idea.

[dolcetreasures]

Out of the last 10 packages I sent:

1 was forwarded by the buyer with no reflection of this in the eBay tracking status and of course, usps never marked the item as delivered.

3 other packages are already past their last delivery dates with one being stuck in some black hole in Indianapolis. 

[buyselljack2016]

Happens in many locations with the "delivering for America" consolidation of regional processing facilities to streamline operations.

Some locations that operated at less than full capacity have been consolidated with others to get production up beyond capacity causing extreme backlogs. 

The thought that two 60% (estimate by me) capacity facilities consolidated would add up to only a 100% capacity facility did not work out well.

If your mail is moving at all you are head and shoulders above some situations.

The next slowdown is in the works with the elimination of "end of day" mail departure from thousands of facilities resulting in 1 more day being added to mail service.

My area already eliminated Saturday outgoing resulting in a 2-day delay for anything purchased after carrier pickup on Friday. 

[carlmarxx]

I used to have Packages from the east coast  that  went through  Phynix  AZ .  to  my neck of woods  of S. Ca.    with out much issues   all  packages  delivered  on same  day. Now  they go through Avondale  AZ sorting hub  with 4 or more that show up at that  unit   on  same day processed  ,I  now  get them 2 to 3 days apart  in stead all packages on same day with unexplained  delay  reason  . 

[a-lotta-stuff]

Again talking about a whole new stop being added to the shipping, not the shipments that take the tour of America or start the wrong way and then gets turned around.  Why did something we sold to someone in El Paso go from here [New Mexico] 150 miles to El Paso, then 200 plus to Alb just to be sent right back to El Paso.