So, what do you do if the Post Office tracking shows "delivered", but it's not in your mailbox?

We've had two or three items in the past few months that showed as delivered according to tracking and actually arrived up to three or four days later. So hopefully that's what's happening to you.

 

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I had a small parcel of coin supplies get marked “delivered” last Friday, but it wasn’t in my box. It was there Saturday. Don’t know if the postal service made an error or it was just misdelivered and stuck in my box by a neighbor.

 

I saw the Postal dude leaving the building when I pulled in from my morning meetings. Checked the box. Had other deliveries, but no sign of the missing Landis Studios shipment.

I didn't get the chance to talk with him. Not sure if he was even the dude that delivered yesterday.

I'll head over to the local Post Office tomorrow at lunch, attitude in hand . . . . . . . . .

Z

 

Attitude in hand can always surface. I'd absolutely start with attitude in check. You'll attract more flies with honey rather than vinegar. Get them to want to help the nice guy. If they don't, well then the flood gates of attitude can roar. Once you start with a 'tude you can't go back.

 

Very true! It's always best to display the calm before the storm.

 

Yes they will always be more likely to be helpful if approached politely. Initial approach with an angry or confrontive attitude will just promote an unhelpful attitude in response and get you nowhere.

 

This is frickin unbelievable and getting worse. Yesterday my tracking numbers showed two deliveries from the same sender arriving on the same day. Both show "delivered," only one package in the box, the cheaper and lighter of the two.

Not from Landis but an Ebay seller. Won two auctions a few hours apart. Paid separately. The seller shipped separately.

Spent most of the afternoon calling the local Post Office - no answer on a line that always got answered a year ago.

Makes me think the delivery guy noticed these were from the same shipper and figured that I would think they should have been shipped together. Maybe planning on me complaining to the shipper except I have two tracking numbers and one item never arrived.

This is really pizzing me off.

Z

 

AR work I ordered $6000 in lighting 20 fixtures. They shipped it ups. In two cartons. One weighing 10 pounds the other weighing 55 pounds. The whole shipment gets marked delivered, but only the 10 pound package arrived.

This time I caught the delivery guy at the door becuase he dropped the box to the ground at the stoop and the thud got my attention so I know that's all he had.

Not his fault if it's damaged, they didn't mark it fragile or anything buy he could have left the 2nd piece of the shipment unmarked so I knew it wasn't stolen by a porch pirate.

So now I wait for a package marked delivered that wasn't delivered yet. I believe it will work out but it's just what some drivers do. I dunno of careless or they assume the shipment that's supposed to be on the truck is there and mark them all delivered at the start of the route, or maybe they fall behind and don't get to delivering it that day.

At least with me it was a 1 of 2, 2 of 2 situation where he may of saw it was two, pulled the first one, marked the whole shipment delivered and then couldn't find the 2nd package on the truck and rather than go back and fix it just moved on with deliveries.

They all have it screwed up at some point though UPS, USPS FedEx and TNT they've all done it to me at some point.

My biggest fear is the porch pirates really otherwise it will eventually show up in a day or two.

 

I retired from the postal service. Just about every employee is honest but there are a few. It just not worth what happens to you if you are caught. Every postal employee I've met is human and they make mistakes.

Your mail is delivered to a multi residence delivery area. They may have put it in the wrong box. Happens all the time. Not every residence checks their mail daily. I said it before and I'll say it again, you need to talk to the carrier.

You saw him the next day but let him go as you don't know if he's the one that delivered it. Only management at your local office can get that information. All carriers have a route and they deliver 5 days a week. The odd day, which may change, is another carrier. It's not difficult to find out. Just deal with it in a patient attitude and the sooner the better. People forget as time goes by.

 

call the post office and file a report right away.

 

Try calling them. Phones are not being answered for any reason.

It gets worse.

Here is the latest USPS BOVINE FECAL DROP with package #2 . . . . . . . . .


Try to wrap your head around what is being shown in this tracking history and see if it makes any sense . . . . . .

"Package Delivered" last Friday, but somehow, yesterday, they decided to "return it to the sender" right about the time I filed a NON-DELIVERY COMPLAINT!

Z

 

Sounds like it was misscanned delivered and it's being returned to the sender. It could be a problem with the delivery address.

 

Here is the problem with that "theory". This was package #2 of 2. Package #1 was delivered the same day as this one says it was. They traveled side by side, same sender, same shipping day, same everything. One makes it in the box, the other experiences a bovine fecal drop . . . . . . .



Z

 

Well the good news is the package wasn't stolen or misdelivered. Since it is still being scanned, and moving, you know it's in the possession of the USPS.

At least it'll ultimately be delivered to you or returned to sender for reshipping.

Temporarily puts the total loss concern to rest.

 

The problem is you did not follow the package step by step, you are assuming. I've tried to help you resolve this but you're not listening. You're too excited about your assumptions. I am retired postal management. Lighten up and talk politely to your carrier and postal management.

 

I'm making no assumptions. Two packages, same shipper, comparing tracking history of each side by side.

Two different tracking numbers, both say delivered 2 minutes apart. Only one in our box, and it was torn open. Contents intact but heavier, more valuable package completely missing. And it was me who emptied the box.


You go missing a $300+ package they say was delivered and let's see how calm you remain.

Z

 

The problem is those few bad ones don't stop to consider that.

 

No they don't but once an example is made it goes a long way.

I remember once of something that happened in an office not to far away from mine. Some guy was walking his dog and saw numerous DVD Netflix packaging in a recycling bin that a person put out for pickup the next day. He called postal inspectors when he got home and reported it.

They came out immediately to inspect. It was over a hundred packs of empty dvds. Mostly different addresses. The inspector called the postmaster and made inquiries. All were from the same route, the route the carrier that lived there was assigned to.

He was stealing the Netflix DVDS but he was good enough to recycle the paper packaging. He had over a thousand DVDs in his house that were stolen from Nexflix. He returned the DVDs, lost his job and his pension, his self respect but he avoided jail time by paying Netflix for watching the movies.

That was years ago and they still talk about this incident. It goes a long way. It just doesn't pay.

 

I notify the sender immediately, but I wait a couple of days before taking other action. Why? Because I've seen the behavior noted in this article multiple times:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/10/15/usps-false-scans-packages/

The other problem I have is delivery to the wrong address. Just today I had two notices in my mailbox for someone living at the same number address as mine but on a different street.

 

Carriers make 2 constant misdelivery mistakes. Right numbers but the wrong street and the right street but the wrong numbers. Even in a small office it never lets up. In a smaller town the packages usually turn up but not so much in larger cities.