USPS package vacation.

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I mailed a package on the 18th of March and as of 04-01-26 it’s still in transit to Florida. Anyone else have this level of wonder with the postal service? Lets play guess when it gets there. I’m guessing on the 6th of April.

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Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

ATLANTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

March 31, 2026, 7:27 pm

In Transit to Next Facility

March 31, 2026

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

ATLANTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

March 29, 2026, 3:52 am

In Transit to Next Facility

March 28, 2026, 11:41 pm

In Transit to Next Facility

March 28, 2026, 5:48 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility

DALLAS TX LOGISTICS CENTER

March 28, 2026, 1:30 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility

DALLAS TX LOGISTICS CENTER

March 28, 2026, 5:51 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER

March 27, 2026, 4:32 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility

DALLAS TX LOGISTICS CENTER

March 19, 2026, 12:51 pm

Departed Post Office

BEDFORD, TX 76021

March 18, 2026, 4:52 pm

USPS in possession of item

BEDFORD, TX 76021

March 18, 2026, 1:28 pm

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How about the ones that reach the little distribution point close to you quickly enough which means your local delivery warehouse will have it in hand that night for next morning delivery, and then instead it takes off for the cross-country vacation journey like you are having.

You go to bed knowing the package will arrive the next day and then whoosh, it jumps over to the next state and heads into parts unknown.

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For some reason, this made me imagine a certain Braveheart character running down a grassy hill with a USPS package in hand screaming “AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”…In the direction opposite to the delivery address

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I had one heading from where I live in the midwst to Las Vegas. It disappeared for 2 weeks. In the meantime, I had built a new light for the customer and shipped it UPS. When the missing one finally appeared in tracking, it was in Portland. I had to make multiple calls to the PO to get them to return the package to me. Only to find out on the 3rd call that I needed to file a “package intercept” request and pay $19.45. (even though they screwed up, I still had to pay)

However, the package didn’t start heading my way. It went to Los Angeles, then Las Vegas! Looks like it’s still in transit to the customer, right?! More calls to the PO, they finally got someone from the local Las Vegas office to call me. They saw no record of me requesting the package intercept. But, they would return the package to me. Another week later, it finally arrived back at my mailbox.

All in, it was nearly 4 weeks of a flashlight taking a tour of the western US.

About a week later, I got an email saying they couldn’t process my intercept request and was refunded the $19.45.

The PO has turned into a complete s**tshow lately.

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Same here, opened several lost package claims via local postmaster. All DID eventually arrive, albeit several weeks late .
Have a order ready to replace my CR123 primary stock and very old Eneloops. I will be making sure they are shipped UPS.

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makes one wonder if someone is purposely trying to dismantle the USPS to clear the way for some other alternative

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You can’t get there from here.
Sometimes it does look like it’s a giant maze where it gets near the finish line but it runs into a dead end and has to backtrack.
But it’s most likely scanning errors or being thrown into the wrong bin or on to the wrong truck. Sometimes I also think that it’s just a recording or reporting error in the system.
Sometimes if you look at the full history after the package finally arrives some of these steps along the way get sort of eliminated or canceled out.
Or maybe it’s just the system erasing its chaos and missteps / extra steps?

I have seen cases where the times and dates and locations can’t possibly be true. So there are maybe multiple explanations.

For the OP maybe it’s just somebody in the system messing with Texas.

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There’s no need to wonder. They’ve been openly trying to do that for decades. It’s not a mystery or a secret.

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but why?

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A few weeks ago I had part of an Amazon order delivered by USPS. What arrived was a large bubble wrap envelope that was partially open. There was nothing in it. Two days later a large paper cardboard type envelope arrived with the item. Both packages had the same tracking number on almost identical USPS parcel select tags. I was notified by email from Amazon that my package arrived twice. Usps showed that the package was delivered twice.
I still haven’t figured out what went wrong there.

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I can’t answer that question in any meaningful amount of detail without breaking BLF rules.

So… short answer: Because politics.

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My experience has been this:

  • If the package enters the US on the Eastern side of the country, good news I’ll have it within a week.
  • If the package enters the US on the Western side of the country, good luck. It’ll get here when it gets here

 

Separate issue specific to me:

The company that manages my rental installed a lock on the outer door of my apartment complex. Sounds like a good thing right? Probably shouldn’t have been open to the public in the first place.

The problem is, they didn’t contact the USPS about this change! I didn’t get any mail for about a week. And then, a few weeks later the mail stopped again. I don’t know if the mailman with the singular key went on vacation, if they lost the key, or what. Service resumed after I complained to the management company and they said it wouldn’t happen again this time. Perhaps now the local post office has a backup key and a number to call for subsequent keys…

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It’s still in Atlanta. Paying insurance feels like a protection racket.

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the Add-uh-lan-nuh hub is notoriously slow for my orders as well…stuff disappears for at LEAST 3 days, the longest was a week and a half…

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I ordered a Q8 reflector from I think Sofirn, was waiting for it to arrive, and good thing I caught it as it was delivered, as the bubblewrap envelope was ripped open and I just got delivered an empty envelope!

Good thing I heard the mailman beep the doodad and I caught it so that I could catch him right there and show him. So he rebeeped it as refused by customer. Otherwise I would’ve gotten an empty envelope and had it marked as delivered, and I’d be SOL.


Similarly, a saga that started in February and was only “resolved” this past week was when I ordered some LED car bulbs, and got an envelope with everything but… the bulbs! Clearly they were swiped in the warehouse. Swipe the bulbs, leave the “extras” like resistors and splices, send only that.

Amazon CS sucks moose wang, so figured I’d go directly to Sealight. All they were interested in was running out the clock past the return window. Returned them the day of. Then Amazon sends email telling me to return them else I’ll be re-charged what they refunded me!

I had to somehow miraculously chat with a hyu-mon, tell her what happened, offered to send the entire email exchange between me and Sealight, etc., and was told that she just credited it as returned. We’ll see.


Like, seriously, do I have to be wearing a bodycam when taking shiite out of my mailbox, or unboxing deliveries, to somehow prove pre-delivery theft??


Oh, this lighted magnifier that takes voice commands, that The Big Clive took apart and dissected. I ordered one, it was delivered and the mag was in an official Amazon sealed bag.

I turn it on, and it just faintly flickers. Tried charging it, casting some spells on it, etc., and nothing. Just flickering.

But then I noticed that the finish wasn’t perfect, but worn. And there was what looked like pink nail polish smeared on it. The f’n thing was USED THEN RETURNED, and just rebagged and sold as new! And they wanted me to pay about as much as it cost to return it, as it originally cost. Only pissing and moaning to CS got them to waive the return… eventually.

All these checks to tell exactly when something was delivered, and it only makes it harder to dispute anything when you still get screwed.

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I currently have a package going on a usps vacation as well.
Here are the warning signs.

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