HOmainline Yep, that's puzzled me as well. Though very few items I've purchased from various on-line merchants take an inordinate amount of time to arrive, I've often wondered why the USPS uses such vague, meaningless terms as "on the way to next facility" in a tracking service. Just a year or two ago, it was much more common to see an item's exact location by city and state. It looks like the system has simply been dumbed down, making it nearly pointless.
Yep, that's puzzled me as well.
Though very few items I've purchased from various on-line merchants take an inordinate amount of time to arrive, I've often wondered why the USPS uses such vague, meaningless terms as "on the way to next facility" in a tracking service. Just a year or two ago, it was much more common to see an item's exact location by city and state. It looks like the system has simply been dumbed down, making it nearly pointless.
Rich
Alton Junction
I don't believe USPS tracking anymore, since it claimed my package was in some distant city, while it had actually been delivered. Another time, I filed a search request and they got back to me and admitted they could not find the package. I eventually got it, but what is wrong?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Had a package coming from VA that went to San Diago, CA on its way to VT. Did arrive in a reasonable amount of time from shipping date though.
Not what I'd call a very direct route.
Good luck,
Richard
Kerry
This is very stange. USPS is my favorite shipper. In my experience I almost always get my item within a week. In the most recent instance, my ebay item arrived from all the way across the US in 2 days!!! Hopefully this problem is only temperary for you...
I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.
I get my on line purchases in a timely manner usually 4-5 days from the West Coast and Florida and 2-3 from the East Coast once the package is picked up by USPS..
USPS also uses DHL as a package contractor.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
So far, things have been good on the USPS front.
BUT, I have a P O Box for mail, and I have a street address. Having two addresses can be a problem, especially now that UPS hands of items to USPS, I forget what they service they call that, but I have had things I've ordered, sent back to the sender as "Undeliverable".
When I explain my situation to a potential seller/sender, I always get asked: " You mean your mail doesn't get delivered to your house?"
Not so much on Ebay, or suppliers, but Amazon is a different story.
I also tried to ask the place that I buy stuff from, how they ship, so I can give them the right address.
With Amazon, that's not possible, so I have to keep both address on file with Amazon.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Good luck Rich!
Mike.
My You Tube
I sold something on ebay and it went to Phoenix from MD in 3 days and took another 4 days to go to Tuscon.
Other deliveries I've had sent west to the Sacramento, from the midwest or New England.
Then there are the time where the USPS says my address doesn't exist.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
What is wrong with the United States Postal Service?
I ordered two different items for my layout from two different hobby shops in two different parts of the country in the first week of February and both were shipped the next day to my home in the Chicago area. But, I have yet to receive either item.
One item actually arrived at the Chicago Network Distribution Center on February 7th, sat there 4 days, then was reported "In Transit To The Next Facility" on February 11th with no further report since that date.
The other item was shipped on February 11th, traveled less than 100 miles in two days and just sat there, then was reported "In Transit To The Next Facility" on February 13th with no further report since that date.
When you call USPS, they no nothing more than I do by simply clicking on Tracking History.
Anybody else experiencing these problems with USPS?