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USPS Service - Multiple "Arrival" Scans at Same Hub - PM Delivery Update
pointfivezero
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Has anyone else noticed a degradation of USPS service over the past month? A couple of examples from my inbound and outbound experience - four days for a ground shipment from Irvine to the Bay Area and one week (and counting) for a Priority Mail package shipped from California to Iowa.
In particular, I have noticed a new phenomena of multiple arrival scans at the same depot multiple days apart:
Do USPS employees get paid by the scan? Can anyone help me understand how this can happen on multiple occassions?
Tim
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Have had it happen a few times and the package arrived safely. Just so you know they have it but has not moved. Overkill sure but at least they have it and want you to know they do.
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Yes, this week.
I get that a lot too.
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As a post-script note, I visited the post office this morning and spoke to the same employee almost a week to the minute since I dropped off the Priority Mail parcel with him. I asked him to check on the shipment. He went into the back room and came back a few minutes later to tell me there were no issues with the package, now seven days later.
I went home and filed a "where's my package" form on USPS.com. Within an hour or so, there was another arrival scan at the same regional hub. Coincidence?
Tim
I had that happen with a package a while ago. It was like that for a couple days and eventually found its way out of the loop and arrived a day later.
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With tracking you get to see how the sausage is made. It's not always pretty but it almost always works out.
I had a Ground Advantage package take only 4 days to go across country. There were no tracking updates between the mail hubs on both ends (it was presumably on a truck the whole time) but it got there.
I did also have a package take 10 days to go to a destination 75 miles away. 😡
I have seen that before also.
There are often different "facilities" within a plant. So it comes off the truck and gets scanned and loaded into a tote. Then the tote is wheeled to a sorting station which decides which tote to put it in for the next stop. Another scan, but they both might be very similarly named.
If it gets mis-sorted, that may get picked up and cause the item to go back through the sorting process. More scans.
I believe each scan has an actual machine number attached, so USPS can trace the flow at a lower level of detail.
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one of my local distro centers scans stuff as departed, but from what i know happens when it really departs is that it is at my po within hours. when it takes a day longer i figure it a scan out so they can make numbers look good. don't just complain about my complaining... also add in the po person at another local po who ha some unflattering words to another customer about the same center.
they scan it twice? i'm with the person who says that you know they have it. it's not heartening that they bumble around with scans, but it's not stolen registered mail. we can both be happy about that.
Yes. I had a Two day Priority Mail that took SIX DAYS. This USPS "Ground" service sucks too...it took like 10+ days to get TWO separate packages to me.....
Yup, I'm getting duplicate point of contact notification alerts. Obviously a software issue. Although, items are arriving in a timely manner.
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Alabama to Georgia via Portland Oregon......
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And that's a mis-route that wasn't caught until the truck hit Portland.
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If, and that’s a big if, my PM shipment gets delivered on Monday, it will have been in transit for nine days.
And there’s no refund recourse with Proirity Mail.
Tim
Just to close the loop on the Priority Mail shipment referenced above, it was delivered this morning. A mere nine days since tendering to my local post office. The shipping carton was worse for the wear but the contents arrived undamaged:
I packed in a box inside the USPS carton or the outcome may have been different.
Tim
Because any part of the federal government has ever been known to be efficient......
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I've had only one package, an $8 purchase, get lost in the last five years and in that time I've ordered many hundreds of items. I've also never had any contents damaged even the packing was less than stellar. The package arrives, I enjoy what I received and life goes on. While I check tracking, I do not find it something to dwell on and dissect ad nauseum.
I've gotten those thru the years. I quit trying to figure out what the government is doing, fwiw
I have an eBay purchase delivery saga going on right now. Ist class package is mailed from California, arrives in Florida in four days - not bad. Then it sits immobile in the Sarasota processing center for two days. The damn place is less than 10 miles from where I live!
Yesterday they sent it to Tampa, which for those of you in the know about Florida geography, is in the opposite direction. Last update was as of yesterday evening. Tampa is listed as the 'destination facility' which it is most decidedly not.
Methinks they've taken their cost-cutting measures a bit too far. Rant over.
I'm not sure what the recent issue is with Post Office. We are waiting for a wedding invitation which was mailed on March 26th from Kansas to California. A check I mailed from the Bay Area to another location in the same Bay Area (Hercules to San Mateo) was not delivered after four days after last checking.
I was hoping someone with knowledge of postal operations would weigh in.
Tim