Gotta Love USPS!

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I ordered 2 special bolts and nuts from a place in Candler NC on Sunday 7-16, little over 400 miles from home.

They mailed them Monday.

First they go DOWN to Greenville SC

On the 18th they depart Greenville SC and go to Columbia SC

From there they go PAST my area to Richmond VA

From Richmond VA they come back down to Norfolk VA, not 7 miles from my house.

On the night of the 18th they ARRIVED at Philadelphia PA...WTF?!?!?!

This morning, 19th, they departed Philly, who knows where they'll wind up next

Shipping costs approx $8...these bolts truly are special (and well traveled)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Seems to be the standard these days, Bob.

I watch the tracking on packages and see similar travel back and forth, to & fro, and just when I think a package might be close, off it goes to yet another sorting station further away....

It gets a lot more interesting and strange when DHL or FedEx is involved with the USPS.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I called the 1-800 USPS number...waiting time is over an hour!

I called the local hub here in Portsmouth, clerk didn't have a clue why it passed by Portsmouth twice without stopping.

Actual delivery date is tomorrow, I told her if I don't get it then I'll call her back, but I expect I'll get the same response as I did today.

The USPS was great here 3 years ago, now I'm afraid to think of what has been lost in the mail these days.

Another goodie not USPS related.

Yesterday around 3pm a strong thunderstorm came thru, high wind and heavy rain for 1/2 hour. When it hit I was putting up the garbage cans. As i was dragging them down the driveway I heard a crack and a 3" diameter limb fell out of the neighbors tree onto her power line, ripping them away from the house but not severing them and cutting off power. I called VEPCO (now Dominion Energy) and told them about it because the line is almost hanging onto the street. Got a work order number.

As of 10:30am this morning the limb is still hanging on the line. I warned my other neighbors not to touch it, but I'm afraid a kid on a bike is going to come by and try to pull it down. The lady that owns the house may lose power, not to mention the piece of exterior molding that came off with the thing they use to secure the lines to the house. She needs to call her insurance company but she thinks that Dominion should pay for it, fat chance.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe call the fire department if the electric company doesn't show up - hazardous situation and potential fire as well.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Maybe I should call PETA and tell them there's an animal stuck in the tree. That would get them, the fire department, AND the newspapers out here!!!

The Dominion Energy guy I talked to wasn't even in the state, he kinda confirmed that when he asked if my zip code was in Portsmouth VA!

[Big Jim]

I ordered 2 special bolts and nuts from a place in Candler NC on Sunday 7-16, little over 400 miles from home.

They mailed them Monday.

First they go DOWN to Greenville SC

On the 18th they depart Greenville SC and go to Columbia SC

From there they go PAST my area to Richmond VA

From Richmond VA they come back down to Norfolk VA, not 7 miles from my house.

On the night of the 18th they ARRIVED at Philadelphia PA...WTF?!?!?!

This morning, 19th, they departed Philly, who knows where they'll wind up next

Shipping costs approx $8...these bolts truly are special (and well traveled)

On the conspiracy front:
Maybe the OPEC Mafia has something to do with it, trying to burn up all of our oil reserves!

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

On the conspiracy front:
Maybe the OPEC Mafia has something to do with it, trying to burn up all of our oil reserves!

Or all the rubber for our tires

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

OMG here's the latest update:

July 19, 2017, 2:01 pm Arrived at USPS Regional Facility NORTHWEST ROCHESTER NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

[Roy]

What's so special about these two special bolts and nuts?

[riogrande491]

I had a similar experience a couple years ago. I ordered a telephone call blocking unit from a company in Utah. The package went into an endless USPS loop from Utah to Denver, out to Richmond CA, to another town in CA (forgot the name), back to Denver, back to California, back to Denver, back to CA... The two day priority tracking dutifully revealed the package location and the gyrations it made.

I contacted the seller and they send a second unit. Guess what? Same flight of the bumblebee! Denver didn't want to deliver that one either, so again they erected a "somebody else's problem field" (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) out to California. After again contacting the company they placed an insurance claim against the first package, and guess what? It was finally delivered, nearly 2 weeks late. A couple days later the second one showed up, and I refused delivery, so hopefully it was returned to sender.

According to the shipper, USPS tried to claim that the bar code was damaged, but I sent a photo of a perfectly clean and clear bar code from the package back to the shipper. They confirmed that I wasn't the first customer who USPS failed in that way. For a while Denver was on their S*** list.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What's so special about these two special bolts and nuts?

They are the replacements for the ones that Victor used to hold his head on...........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What's so special about these two special bolts and nuts?

They are the replacements for the ones that Victor used to hold his head on...........

Are you sure you're not Dr. Hawkeye Pierce.

[robert.]

i'm going to take a stab at what happened to your package. It's lost and not traveling at all. what you see traveling is the first bin your item was in. lets call this bin 3A. Those bins,bags or carts travel all over. Your item arrived in a bin that got scanned. Then empty on to a belt. All of the packages got scanned on this belt except yours. Yours fell to the floor or got lost in a postal sorter. Now the post office's system thinks you package is still in a bin 3A. It was never cleared from 3A. Bin 3A now gets loaded and heads to DC. Tracking shows your item to be headed to DC. Bin 3A gets scanned and empty for sorting in DC. Your item is not there so it wont be scanned. Bin 3A is now filled and sent to ohio. Tracking shows your Package to be in route to Ohio along with bin 3A. But it's not. It has never been cleared from bin 3A. Lost in a system that somehow will find it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What's so special about these two special bolts and nuts?

They are the replacements for the ones that Victor used to hold his head on...........

Are you sure you're not Dr. Hawkeye Pierce.

Very sure, or at least that's not the name that's sown into the band of my jockeys. Ok, I guess I could be wearing the pool boys shorts, but I'm pretty sure I don't have a pool.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Well...it left Rochester NY. I think they spin a wheel and whatever it lands on that's where they send it.

Maybe the guy (Josh?) who does the Destination Unknown TV show could investigate?!?!?!

I called the company I got these from and they said to let them know what happens and if I don't get them they'll send me more free.