What was the most misdirected package you've ever sent?

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I can only laugh at this one... Fortunately it's a cheap item that I can easily replace or refund if the buyer squawks, and I haven't heard anything from him yet (hopefully because he's also laughing at the tracking), but I have never seen something go as far astray as this thing. 

Item was a replacement bicycle part in a #0 padded envelope, First Class Package, 3 ounces, all very routine. Shipped it from Chicago on the 10th, aiming for California. Today I was scrolling through the Sold items that had not arrived yet, looking for any hiccups, and this one kind of, um, jumped off the page at me: 

Your item departed a transfer airport in KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND on December 20, 2021 at 8:39 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

Whoa. Okayyy... Well, best that can be said is that it's had regular scans along the way (If I had noticed the tracking earlier, I might have wondered what it was doing at the International Service Center at O'Hare), so I expect they will get it turned around sometime soon. It will be interesting to see if it makes it to California quicker than any of the packages I've shipped since then.

[southern*sweet*tea]

I've been shipping packages via USPS for almost 40 years and I can count on one hand the number of misdirected packages I've had.  For me it's a very rare occurrence, but only one stands out because it took a world tour.  This was at least six or seven years ago, maybe longer. I wish I would have saved the tracking, it was a hoot!

It was a small package of recipe booklets sent FCM to Hawaii.  The package went  to California, then Florida, then on to Puerto Rico, then it went to Guam, then on to Hawaii....but wait. It gets better. It left Hawaii later that day and wound up in Saudi Arabia. (I have no idea) After that it went to Dubai, then back to California, then back to Hawaii, where it was delivered to the buyer. Total transit time was 33 or 34 days I think. The buyer got a huge kick out of watching it travel the world lol  She was totally cool about it, which saved me from multiple Fred Sanford-style heart attacks.