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  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Actually had two lost sheep delivered today.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You have to admit you can learn a lot by tracking USPS packages. For instance, I never would have guessed that Opa Locka FL was to be found en route from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. Who knew?

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    You have to admit you can learn a lot by tracking USPS packages. For instance, I never would have guessed that Opa Locka FL was to be found en route from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. Who knew?

    Had a talk with the McSherrystown postmaster yesterday on that very topic. We were looking for a package sent north to CT which instead went 100 miles south from Lancaster PA to Waldorf MD. He said many post offices were just shipping packages out to anywhere they might think had more time to attend to them, just to clear their own floors. None of this explains why it took a week to get from McSherrystown to Waldorf, nor what it's been doing for a week in Waldorf. Most of our missing stuff which touches at Lancaster goes out to Kansas City. But we've had St Louis, Oxford MS, Nashville, you name it.

    OTOH, we did get two ads from Verizon, four catalogs for women's clothing, and a stack of flyers full of stoops yesterday, here at the house. So there's that.

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    10 days out from date of purchase, Left Opa Locka on the 28th and hasn't been seen since. Perhaps it's booked a room in New Orleans, waiting for Mardi Gras?

    I'm beginning to regret all those times when I thought good things about the post office.

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2020

    My outbound, shipped Monday, shows delivered, amazing.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • NorCalR1NorCalR1 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just checked one of my 5 delayed orders.
    Ordered 11/27 out for delivery today. Just made it before the calendar turned to 2021..

    If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience :D
    If you are a newbie I got Dem nachos....

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    10 days out from date of purchase, Left Opa Locka on the 28th and hasn't been seen since. Perhaps it's booked a room in New Orleans, waiting for Mardi Gras?

    I'm beginning to regret all those times when I thought good things about the post office.

    The package has arrived in Memphis, a week after leaving Opa Locka FL. Probably just stopped at the casino in Biloxi and partied for awhile.

    Where to next? Will it travel the remaining 2 hours north to my location? Or, perhaps decide to ride on down to Texas, or up to Colorado?

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    10 days out from date of purchase, Left Opa Locka on the 28th and hasn't been seen since. Perhaps it's booked a room in New Orleans, waiting for Mardi Gras?

    I'm beginning to regret all those times when I thought good things about the post office.

    The package has arrived in Memphis, a week after leaving Opa Locka FL. Probably just stopped at the casino in Biloxi and partied for awhile.

    Where to next? Will it travel the remaining 2 hours north to my location? Or, perhaps decide to ride on down to Texas, or up to Colorado?

    Happens all the time.
    Our packages arrive Opa Locka, about 6 miles South off my house. The package then goes by my house to the USPS Office 4 miles North of our house.
    Of course thats if the two packages have not been stuck in Kentucky Since the first week of December,

    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tracking history on a package sent Dec 7th, received today:

    January 5, 2021, 1:04 pm
    Delivered, Front Desk/Reception/Mail Room
    WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33407
    Your item was delivered to the front desk, reception area, or mail room at 1:04 pm on January 5, 2021 in WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33407.
    January 5, 2021, 11:41 am
    Arrived at Post Office
    WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33404
    January 5, 2021, 8:21 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    WEST PALM BEACH FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 4, 2021
    In Transit to Next Facility
    January 2, 2021, 2:50 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    WEST PALM BEACH FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 31, 2020, 5:54 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    WARRENDALE PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 24, 2020, 11:19 am
    Forwarded
    BRYN MAWR, PA
    December 24, 2020, 11:05 am
    Forward Processed
    BRYN MAWR, PA 19010
    December 24, 2020, 9:34 am
    Forwarded
    BRYN MAWR, PA
    December 24, 2020, 6:10 am
    Out for Delivery
    BRYN MAWR, PA 19010
    December 24, 2020, 3:56 am
    Arrived at Post Office
    BRYN MAWR, PA 19010
    December 24, 2020, 2:52 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 14, 2020, 2:52 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    PHILADELPHIA PA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 12, 2020, 7:36 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    PHILADELPHIA PA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 11, 2020, 3:55 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 10, 2020, 5:44 pm
    Departed USPS Facility
    KANSAS CITY, MO 64161
    December 10, 2020, 3:41 am
    Arrived at USPS Facility
    EDGERTON, KS 66021
    December 10, 2020, 2:19 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    KANSAS CITY KS NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    December 7, 2020, 4:38 pm
    Departed Post Office
    MC SHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
    December 7, 2020, 12:07 pm
    USPS picked up item
    MC SHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344

    All this shuffling around... No wonder they're busy!

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PA to DE, wow! Yeah, I'd definitely have to hit KC MO on the way, how could you not?

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 15,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    U.S. Postal Service Wishes Everyone A Happy Thanksgiving

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Trykflyr_1Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,500 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They're early! It's not even Easter yet!! Oh......

    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2021

    Interesting development, while it took my COTMC package from Dec 28th until last Friday to get here, the order I placed with some difficulty yesterday has gone from Pennsylvania directly to Tennessee. Skipped the east coast tour with the new- normal stops in New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, God knows where. Perhaps things are getting back to the "Old Normal".

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 15,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ccom must be writing the "36" on the boxes.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You are lucky
    My package went from TN to Palm Beach FL. To Miami distro which is less than 10 miles from my house then to MA. to ME and today is back in MA.
    Talk about taking a U turn

    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Diver43 said:
    You are lucky
    My package went from TN to Palm Beach FL. To Miami distro which is less than 10 miles from my house then to MA. to ME and today is back in MA.
    Talk about taking a U turn

    Good One! I shipped a number of similar. Most popular dog-leg was Kansas City.

    Our daily batch going out are definitely catching up, tho. Right now, we pay for two-day priority and we get a week. That's one heck of a lot better than it was this date last month. Best of all, the longest stragglers in my tickle list have all been delivered.

    That's business. Hobby-wise: I buy leaves to roll my own gars from Whole Leaf Tobacco in Akron. I ordered a bagful of wrappers a week and a half ago. Usually takes two days to get here. Bypassed DullAware. Stuck in Philly, not moving.

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • CAcigarguy007CAcigarguy007 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A lot of the cigar houses (except the page) are using UPS now instead of USPS. Got my cigar.com order in three days. It seems this problem is regional. Everything from PA has been terrible lately, everything else has moved like normal. Not sure what the heck is going on but some management needs to be held accountable for this terrible operations situation. Scapegoating the mainline workers isn't an acceptable excuse. They need to fix this immediately, it's a national embarrassment at this point.

  • TheKrakenTheKraken Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just got my order from the page delivered by UPS and just purchased on Friday

  • CAcigarguy007CAcigarguy007 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TheKraken said:
    Just got my order from the page delivered by UPS and just purchased on Friday

    I got a recent one from them in 4 days (usps) but still have two others that were shipped on Jan 6th just stalled out in PA. Another from the yesterday is moving also (three scans in two days). Hopefully, this means things are improving.

  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,144 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good experience with USPS this week. I ordered a few things over the weekend, two shipped UPS and one USPS and all three had an initial arrival of Thursday of this week. Got an email from USPS updating the arrival to today. Cool. It was in my mailbox when I got home last night. Apparently they work holidays when they're backed up like this.

  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,144 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This was posted by an employee on bookface before Christmas and they said it is still beyond a shìtshow.

  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭✭✭

    January 20, 2021
    In Transit, Arriving Late
    Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
    January 19, 2021, 8:14 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 18, 2021, 8:04 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 18, 2021, 1:02 am
    Arrived at USPS Facility
    PORTLAND, ME 04101
    January 17, 2021, 10:25 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    SOUTHERN ME DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 17, 2021, 6:44 pm
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 16, 2021, 11:59 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 15, 2021, 5:42 pm
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 15, 2021, 6:39 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 15, 2021, 2:37 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    WEST PALM BEACH FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 14, 2021, 11:23 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    KNOXVILLE TN DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 14, 2021, 2:04 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
    KNOXVILLE TN DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 13, 2021, 5:05 pm
    Departed Post Office
    KINGSPORT, TN 37664
    January 13, 2021, 12:25 pm
    USPS in possession of item
    KINGSPORT, TN 37664

    6 days ago the package was a few miles from my house. Then it headed north to Maine. It began traveling South again a day later
    They are moving trailers to from one distro center to another without unloading them.
    Something is rotten in the USPS.
    Bidens appointee takes over soon, lets see what happens

    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
  • VisionVision Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shipped to JGruv today. It was almost $9 for Monday (maybe) or $4.08 for Tuesday (maybe). Dafawk are we paying for if 2 day is 4-5 day

  • Trykflyr_1Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,500 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Diver43 said
    Something is rotten in the USPS.

    Of course there is. It's government run. And people WANT the government to run their health care? They're delusional.

    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Trykflyr_1 said:
    @Diver43 said
    Something is rotten in the USPS.

    Of course there is. It's government run. And people WANT the government to run their health care? They're delusional.

    Look at government run Healthcare, the VA. As long as the people making the rules exempt themselves it won't get any better.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • CAcigarguy007CAcigarguy007 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Finally! Movement.

    Tracking History

    January 21, 2021, 12:13 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
    PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    Your item arrived at our PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER origin facility on January 21, 2021 at 12:13 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

    January 20, 2021, 10:58 pm
    Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
    BATH, PA 18014

    January 6, 2021, 7:29 pm
    Shipment Received, Package Acceptance Pending
    LEHIGH VALLEY, PA 18002

    January 6, 2021, 4:36 pm
    Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
    BATH, PA 18014

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