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A potential looming USPS headache...has this happened to anyone?

coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭
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I sold a coin from my BST thread to another forum member... A week ago tomorrow, I mailed the coin (insured, thankfully) from Alabama to a New England state, and here we are on day #6 with the tracking showing that the package was processed through some place way down near Miami, Florida. Has anything like this happened to anyone here? I am not quite in full blown panic mode yet, but I sort of see an insurance claim looming on the horizon.

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ......don't forget there was a holiday last week.image
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  • coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭


    << <i>......don't forget there was a holiday last week.image >>



    What's that gotta' do with the price of corn in Mongolia? image
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    There is a room in the sorting facility where folks read the zip code on the package and are supposed to toss the package into the right bin.

    Lots of folks are doing it at the same time. Packages flying through the air, mostly into the correct bin.

    Sometimes one gets into the wrong bin and goes on a little trip somewhere else.
    The sorting process is so fast that there is no time to correct the mistake. In fact, I bet if you were to walk over to that 'wrong' bin to retrieve the package, you would interfere with 20 other packages flying through the air and cause more trouble.

    The package is still in the system and, if it's addressed properly, it will eventually get to the right spot.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    What's that gotta' do with the price of corn in Mongolia?





    It means things could be backed up. It will prolly show up tomorrow.


    Relax, I wouldn't worry.................Yet.




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  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,849 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would imagine it is still too early to worry about a possible insurance claim. It may have been tossed on the wrong transport vehicle or the zip code may have been read incorrectly. Regardless, it hasn't been in transit even one week yet.
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  • Scoham82Scoham82 Posts: 34
    Yup. I live next to Boston and packages always go from Quincy, my PO to Boston and on from there. A couple months ago it went from Quincy to New Hampshire, skipping Boston and went on from NH.. Another time my auction ended on a Sunday, put in the mail 8AM Monday, left Boston Monday night, and disappearred for 10 days. Package was only going 300-400 miles to Delaware. But then it just showed up in Delaware. Luckily I had delivery confirmation for my customer so I could prove I mailed it immediately.
  • 8RealesReality8RealesReality Posts: 139 ✭✭


    << <i>There is a room in the sorting facility where folks read the zip code on the package and are supposed to toss the package into the right bin.

    Lots of folks are doing it at the same time. Packages flying through the air, mostly into the correct bin.

    Sometimes one gets into the wrong bin and goes on a little trip somewhere else.
    The sorting process is so fast that there is no time to correct the mistake. In fact, I bet if you were to walk over to that 'wrong' bin to retrieve the package, you would interfere with 20 other packages flying through the air and cause more trouble.

    The package is still in the system and, if it's addressed properly, it will eventually get to the right spot. >>



    I think Adam really hit the nail on the head here---I wouldn't worry for now...
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  • ebizgobroebizgobro Posts: 595 ✭✭✭
    As other forum members have stated, I don;t think there is much to worry about.

    A challenge with shipping and mailing is how to get the package to the destination. It is generally unlikely there is a plane, truck, or ship going directly from one point to another. Many shippers/air freight companies sort the packages at a particular sorting facility and that is what it looks like is done here.

    If you ever get a chance to see the Fedex sorting in Memphis, it is amazing. My understanding is that out of town shipments are flown to Memphis and sorted to be loaded on a plane to near the destination. It is amazing how they sort so many packages in a short window, especially for overnight deliveries.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's not unusual for letters and packages to get misdirected. Machines are
    notoriously bad at understanding language whether written or spoken. Even-
    tually the error will be spotted and the package redirected. It will probably have
    a little white piece of tape with the zip code expressed in bar code when it gets to
    where it's going.
    Tempus fugit.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where was it supposed to go? Connecticut?
    Tempus fugit.
  • mrpotatoheaddmrpotatoheadd Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭
    With the warning that I have seen absolutely no details or descriptions of USPS's mail routing system, it doesn't seem completely out of the realm of possibility to think that a package going from Alabama to New England might happen to get there by going through Florida.
  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    I've had exactly that happen, then they wound up ok. Last week It showed a package I was epecting sorted through North Houston PO on Monday, it finally arrived 15 miles south to my office on Friday.
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  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Misroutes happen all the time, and that's probably what happened this time. The item will arrive at its destination probably by early or the middle of next week.
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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I would say that if it is not there in 3 weeks you could start to worry (and even then it would probably turn up eventually). 6 days is nothin'.
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  • PeacemanPeaceman Posts: 5,098
    I sent a overnight from Illinois to California only to have it go to New Jersey and then to Cali.... I got my $ 17.50 back... image
  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    HighRelief mailed the DMPL Morgan I had won in his contest last Thurs Priority Insured and I received it yesterday...

  • mrpotatoheaddmrpotatoheadd Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would say that if it is not there in 3 weeks you could start to worry (and even then it would probably turn up eventually). 6 days is nothin'. >>

    What he said.

    I know it's not the popular opinion, but I think you'd be better served by not bothering with checking the "tracking" info on the USPS website, since the overwhelming majority of packages get delivered just fine.
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Way too early to worry. --Jerry
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Not even a week yet and you're worried!!image
  • JBTurnerJBTurner Posts: 72 ✭✭
    You should have shipped USPS Express Mail...its 1-2 days Guaranteed and the only shipping option that the USPS that is trackable.
  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,494 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I sold a coin from my BST thread to another forum member... A week ago tomorrow, I mailed the coin (insured, thankfully) from Alabama to a New England state, and here we are on day #6 with the tracking showing that the package was processed through some place way down near Miami, Florida. Has anything like this happened to anyone here? I am not quite in full blown panic mode yet, but I sort of see an insurance claim looming on the horizon. >>



    A little paranoid, no? These things happen all the time. In all the years I've been shipping packages using the USPS, I have yet to have a package get lost and have to file a claim. Sure, every now and then something gets misdirected, but when it is all said and done, it always gets there. I could not be happier with our USPS.

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