Last week I sold some lots of silver certs, low end stuff, on the bay. I always ship the following morning right at the post office since we don't have mail delivery in my little town and I have to go there anyway. I received an email from one of the buyers this morning that he had not received the package yet so I checked the delivery confirmation. It starts out in my town po just out side of NY City, goes east on Long Island to the big USPS facility then to San Antonio, TX then to Los Angeles, Ca where it left at 5:39 last night and is "in transit". OK, nothing wrong except............ it is going to Indiana. Wish I was getting the frequent flyer miles on this trip, lol.
I had one purchase go from California (actually 60 miles from me) to Montana, Colorado, and then return to California. It doesn't have to make sense, it doesn't have to make money, it's the postal service!
Yea, been there too. I used to buy from a paintball website when I was bigger into that, and they always shipped it from Illinois to northern Wisconsin, and then back down to me in Indiana. Used to drive me crazy because it would seem like my package could have been to me 2 days earlier if they didn't back track like that. But again, i never had any problems with recieving those packages so there is some method to it I suppose.
I bought a mint set that shipped to Hawaii rather than Washington State. The guy refunded my money and the coin showed up at my door nearly two months later. I contacted him to let him know I needed to pay him again. Who knows where that puppy had been.
I hardly think so since mistakes do happen and there could be any number of reasons for this screw up that doesn't even onvolve human intervention. Hopefully the OP's winning bidder is tracking its course acrosss the country.
yea I've bought stuff from somewhere in western PA...and I'm in Philly. When I looked at the tracking it went from western Pa to a town about 30 min away from me, from there it went to........upstate NY, then Connecticut, then Philly then me...makes no sense to me whatsoever lol
I live in Hammond Ind. The main PO around here is in Gary, the next town over. If I send a letter to someone else in Hammond, even next door, it goes through Gary.
If you send a FedEx across the street it goes through Memphis. Apparently sorting is more expensive than moving things around and it saves money to build wholesale sorting centers and do a hub-and-spoke with them. On the other hand some of those incidents above had to have been mistakes.
This is completely normal. Only select post offices are distribution centers (usually in larger cities), where all out of town mail goes to from smaller post offices. If you have a really small post office, as I do, all outgoing mail goes to a distribution center.
