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piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:08 PM Jan 13

What is going on with the mail?

The tracking on my packages says they're at my post office, or the post office of their final destination. But instead of then being "Out for Delivery," they're "in transit to the next facility." Then they go to a neighboring town. WTF? My post office said they never actually got to them, but they will eventually. I've had at least 3 packages all out lost since before Christmas. One went from Ohio to Dallas, TX, in order to get to Virginia and it took 3 weeks with Priority Mail.

I know DeJoy has been a nightmare, but why has it gotten exponentially worse just in the past month or so?

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GreenWave

(9,990 posts)
6. It stopped saying where on Dec. 31. 2013 and they kept sending in transit to next location.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:22 PM
Jan 13

Note: We are the next location! A year later they suspended the "search".

Nikossitti

(323 posts)
16. SAME
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:36 PM
Jan 13

Having the EXACT same problem. Heard the contract between UPS and USPS has to be signed. Mine went from UPS Sec 31 transferred to Post office and every day it says expected delivery is that day with no delivery. Every day—the same.

bucolic_frolic

(48,392 posts)
2. They can't handle the holiday volume so they rent warehouses, sometimes on the fly,
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:17 PM
Jan 13

to store them until they work down the backlog.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
4. Why does it have an estimated delivery
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:20 PM
Jan 13

until it goes to maybe one of these places? I actually was expecting 2 packages today and now they don't even have an estimated delivery date.

bucolic_frolic

(48,392 posts)
7. I waited 3 weeks for a package. Many estimates along the way, but it was stuck in NY the whole time.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:24 PM
Jan 13

I think the computer bots run the digital estimates. THey scan a pallet, no room on the truck, they rescan it and put it aside. Every scan generates activity. From the little I know that's how I see it.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
8. Yikes.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:29 PM
Jan 13

It's gotten pretty frustrating. So I guess my stuff is somewhere on a pallet. One of mine has been stuck somewhere since the beginning of December. They're not even pretending to know where it is anymore.

bucolic_frolic

(48,392 posts)
15. 10-15 years ago my postmistress would look up location on a computer
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:36 PM
Jan 13

So much has been automated I'd bet they don't even have that capability now. Probably the whole thing is run with logistics software.

I'm using the word pallet, i mean those big canvas open-top containers with wheels on the bottom.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
18. The post office calls them pallets too.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:41 PM
Jan 13

I've had to talk to a few post offices in the last few weeks. It's a trick getting their phone numbers and an even bigger trick getting someone to come to the phone. But I do remember at least 2 of them talking about whole pallets getting on the wrong truck. One post office told me that all the packages on the truck my package was on were undelivered. And while "in transit," no one has any idea where they are.


SickOfTheOnePct

(7,632 posts)
5. This is why
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:22 PM
Jan 13

I use FedEx. One Rate boxes for a fixed price, and I’ve never had an issue with packages arriving on time.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
11. FedEx is good in some places, bad in others.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:32 PM
Jan 13

Sure, packages arrive on time. But in our area, the subcontractors don't maintain their trucks. They did a lot of damage to my driveway a few years ago by dripping diesel oil all up and down it. I told the drivers every time, until I finally gave up and wrote to corporate.

Even if they're good, though, we don't have a lot of choice when we order online.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
14. That's outrageous!
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:35 PM
Jan 13

I would be worried if we got paychecks and/or Social Security checks by mail.

maxsolomon

(35,689 posts)
10. Everything is working fine for me.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:32 PM
Jan 13

I sent a package out 3-day Priority Mail, the cheapest available. Got there in 3 days.

I've sent out 10 Media Mail packages in the last month. They all got to their destinations ahead of time, including international.

I just sent out another 3-day Priority Mail package; not worried about it at all.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
13. Buy a lottery ticket!
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:34 PM
Jan 13

You are lucky. My daughter, who lives an hour away, isn't getting her packages either. Actually, one of her missing packages is her Christmas gift from me.

piddyprints

(14,877 posts)
19. East TN.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:42 PM
Jan 13

Our local post office is actually very good. But they can't deliver what doesn't get to them.

elleng

(137,855 posts)
20. Been working ok here but now there's SNOW around mail box, so not so sure;
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:51 PM
Jan 13

I can't reach it!

Mountainguy

(1,296 posts)
21. In Transit to Next Facility
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:59 PM
Jan 13

is the default message you get when a package hasn't been scanned in 24 hours. Usually it means its snarled at a sorting facility. I've had some sit at some place for a week or two before. I've noticed a significant slowdown since the winter storm and LA wildfires.

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