A lot of snow!-slows down the mail

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Just tracked a package for a person on the west coast.

Left Racine 2-4-2011.
Left Oak Creek (Mitchell field) 2-4-2011 10PM
Arrived Forest Park, IL (Just outside Chicago) 2-9-2011
Then there are four entries, all different dates, all say:
Processed through Forest Park Sort Facility, last one is 2-11 at 7:30AM. So, it could still BE in that facility.


We had a lot of snow and, for a couple days, not much moved. I heard 15,000 flights were canceled and lots of mail moves on passenger flights, I am told.

But, the real point here is that the USPS is still recovering from the shock. So, patience is going to be required for a while.

'Goods in transit" are not moving very fast!!!
 
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I had a package that was held up in forest park,il too for about 10 days.It was a padded envelope.It took 10 days from forest park,il to Evansville.
 
I had a package delayed a while back by Fedex or UPS (Can't remember which one) here in Vernon, CA said it was due to inclement weather.

It was 78 degrees at that time and not a cloud in the sky, guess the driver wanted a day off. :eek:
 
I had a package through UPS that got to the distribution center in Mesquite, Texas....15 minutes from my house. It got there on 2/1/11 and I did not get it till the following Tuesday 2/8. It was really only icy two of those days. What was crazy is they were delivering package to my neighbor across the street on 2/3.
 
Our local UPS driver mentioned that there were packages he had picked up that sat in the trucks outside the facility for a couple days, first because of the snow, then, because of the back up the snow created.

The "tracking systems" that are in place these days do take some of the "heat" off of the shipper, though. I'm happy about that! We can prove it left US. We can't do much about where it went.
 
ed4copies said:
The "tracking systems" that are in place these days do take some of the "heat" off of the shipper, though. I'm happy about that! We can prove it left US. We can't do much about where it went.
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I can't even get that, lately. I've been trying to use the online services
because I get a cleaner label. (nobody can read my chicken scratch) But
lately I've found my local office won't check in a pre-paid package. They'll
accept it, but they won't scan it.
They tell me it will get scanned 80 miles from here. I'm not entitled to
get it scanned because I got $.30 off by doing it online.. so they don't have
to do any work.

I'm not dropping off packages without proof that I did so .. :eek: What if
they lose an insured package before it makes that 80 miles??? I'm up the
creek!

So .. they can just put up with my chicken scratch from now on
 
I was expecting a package last Wednesday from one of our favorite vendors. I received an e-mail that said that the packaged had been delivered, and when I looked out the front window, there was the FedEx truck.

But the driver didn't deliver anything to our house. I noted that he started to drive away, then paused about 100 feet up the street for a minute or so for some reason. So I checked the FedEx site - the report there said the package was left at the front door. I looked out the front door - nope, nothing there. Just to be sure, I also checked the garage door. Nothing. No point in checking the back door - with three feet of snow on the ground, no one can get to it.

So I called Fed Ex to report the problem. They promised to look into it and get back to me.

About 5pm, the doorbell rang - it was Gail from down the street. She had found a white plastic bag containing the package tied to her street-side mail box (with the number 12 prominently displayed on both sides - our house is number 14).

Can anyone tell me why the FedEx guy delivered a package addressed to #14 to #12. And why he reported to Fed Ex that he left it on the front porch when in fact he put it in a white plastic bag and tied it to a mailbox at the street. Where the white plastic blended in with the surrounding snowbank making it almost completed invisible. And why it was that the Fed Ex finally called back on Friday to say that the still had not been able to determine what happened to the package they misplaced on Wednesday?

Sounds like a combination of very cold weather and a serious brain cramp, and with a little apathy thrown in to make things interesting.
 
Louie, that sounds alot like our brain dead UPS (not usps) guy we had for a couple of years. Whenever I had a UPS package coming, i would watch the tracking... Whenever it said "delivered", 80% of the time I'd end up walking a block away to a street that runs parallel. It would be delivered to a house with the same house number, but on a completely different street name.
 
Here's a good one I have a 1,000 ft drive with pine trees left & right side all the way down. It was raining that day all day long , I was waiting for a package with printing paper in the package that day. Later during the day around 3:00 pm i decided to go get my mail in the mail box, and i found a white plastic bag on the ground next to my mail box. Now I live out in the country, so I call UPS and they told me I had a temp driver that day and when he saw my drive way he was scare to drive down it.What a idiot so he put out in the rain on the ground .
 
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