Update--Is a package sent by USPS Registered Mail trackable along the route?

Longacre

I mailed a registered package over a week ago, and just this morning I got around to putting the registered number into the USPS website. I got a message that "no such number exists" in the system.

I am now getting nauseous and ready to pass out at my desk. Does anyone know whether registered packages can be tracked en route, or will I just be able to see it when it actually gets delivered?


Update:

The package arrived safe and sound. I just called the post office. However, the first time I called directory assistance and asked for the number of the post office in my town, they gave me the number of a private company called "The Post Office". The lady who answered the phone actually listed to my whole tale of woe before she said that I had the wrong number. She probably gets calls like that all the time.

Res

The post office can track it via their computers. The customer can't unless they paid for delivery confirmation.

kranky

Deep, cleansing breaths, Longacre! You can't see it until it is delivered, not en route.

Julian

Sometimes you can see it, sometimes you can't. There is no rhyme or reason.

mgoodm3

Everytime that i've done it, it will show when it is received by the original PO and will also show when it is received at the final PO. Nothing in between.

mrearlygold

It's probably ok.

Tell your dealer to stop being so cheap and to buy insurance which will allow you to ship express mail back to him

Lakesammman

Just sent some stamps to Italy - registered "tracking" ends at the US border.

Longacre

See update above if interested.

RBinTex

"The post office can track it via their computers."

Absolutely, AND can tell you every step along the way that someone handled it but you'll probably have to go to the station & ask VERY politely if you want it done at just 7 days after shipping.

e.g. PCGS had my zip wrong (their mistake) on a few returns. With the registered number I was able to speak with the Newport Beach station & have them confirm it was sent to LAX. Speak with the LAX station & have them confirm it was sent to DFW. Speak with DFW & have them confirm it was sent to the main Dallas P.O. Speak with them & have them confirm it was sent to the N. Texas (i.e. far N. Dallas) P.O. Speak to them & have them confirm it was sent to the station for a zip code just 2 different than mine (75025 instead of 75023). Thast station didn't deliver to my address (in zip 75023) so they just stuck in in the safe for a few days. Eventually they would've returned it or forwarded it to the correct P.O. (just 4 miles north) but I was able to "intercept" it their before that happened.

Long story short, as long as it made it into the system, the chances of it getting permanently lost are from slim to none.

earlwbollinger

But it sometimes might take a few months to get to you.
I had a insured comfirmed delivery item come up as being delivered four days after shipping.
Only I didn't physically get the package until over two months later.
But it did show up eventually.

Barry

<< <i>Sometimes you can see it, sometimes you can't. There is no rhyme or reason. >>


I've noticed this, too.

bgman

I sent a package registered last Monday. I checked the website Saturday and it said "package was accepted" at my post office. Checked the site today, and it says "no package exists" Such a wonderful service. LOL

bestclser1

Same thing with me on same day.Found out coin arrived this morning.

100proof1957

registered is strange

As i understand it " Registered Mail" is supposed to be signed for everytime it changes hands in the system.

UncleWiggly

<< <i>Sometimes you can see it, sometimes you can't. There is no rhyme or reason. >>





This is what I've experienced. My p.o. scans registered in and the public tracking will show it is accepted. When it arrives the screen shows delivered. And once in a blue moon it will show a trade off point.

Yes the p.o. can track your registered and can find out which "bin" and where the bin is.



Jerry

jdimmick

The postal registered tracking system was down over the weekend, its back working today.

jim

solid

Sent a package via Registered last week and it shows this:

We attempted to deliver your item at 10:44 am on March 31, 2006 in XXXXXXX, TX and a notice was left.
It can be redelivered or picked up at the Post Office. If the item is unclaimed, it will be returned to the sender.
Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Ken

WTCG

USPS services are typically not trackable along its transit route. Half of the time the packages are not scanned when they are delivered.

Use DHL, UPS or FedEx as they provide tracking during transit.

LEAP269

i use DHL almost exclusively- you can tell where the package is at any point in the process including my favorite location-with delivery courier. when the package is delivered, it tells when and shows the electronic signature of the receiver or tells where the package was left. only once did my package not arrive when it was supposed to. there was no charge for the mess up as they easily found my package in the wrong sorting facility and corrected it within a few days.

SUPERCARCOINS

Registered mail via the USPS is the safest , most reliable service in the world

nankraut

"e.g. PCGS had my zip wrong (their mistake) on a few returns. With the registered number I was able to speak with the Newport Beach station & have them confirm it was sent to LAX. Speak with the LAX station & have them confirm it was sent to DFW. Speak with DFW & have them confirm it was sent to the main Dallas P.O. Speak with them & have them confirm it was sent to the N. Texas (i.e. far N. Dallas) P.O. Speak to them & have them confirm it was sent to the station for a zip code just 2 different than mine (75025 instead of 75023). Thast station didn't deliver to my address (in zip 75023) so they just stuck in in the safe for a few days. Eventually they would've returned it or forwarded it to the correct P.O. (just 4 miles north) but I was able to "intercept" it their before that happened"

YIKES!

coindeuce

The only service that is trackable at each waypoint(manifest signature) from a non-U.S.P.S. computer terminal is Global Express. Aside from that , the only other shipper that offers direct reporting of real time tracking is FedEx Express.

dcamp78

I believe that everything that I've read on this subject up to this point is true.
You (i.e. the public) can't track where things are in the system, but the USPS
can tell you exactly where a package is SUPPOSED to be at any given time.
(Assuming that it has the appropriate bar coding provided by the sender)

Some items actually get lost, severely damaged (oops! that one got lost) or stolen.

Also, the USPS has the right to open any package they believe is breaking
USPS rules. (e.g. using Media Mail to send something other than media)