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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2643987, member: 46237&quot;]Some of these status messages you see in your USPS tracker are not &quot;real&quot; entries. They are added automatically by the system under the assumption that your mail is on time. These messages generally coincide with what your mail is actually doing, and are helpful in alleviating concerns for people tracking their mail when it isn&#039;t necessarily scanned. Having said that, when your mail isn&#039;t where it is anticipated to be when it is anticipated to be there, you will see status entries that are very confusing. For example it might show as arrived at destination for a local post office, followed by a scan several states away. It was <i>never</i> at your post office in this case, and that status entry was bogus. Just ignore it.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one of my old addresses, it was even more obvious when a status message was fake. It would show an arrival at the post office in my town, but my town post office was a tiny one room building in a historic area, and they didn&#039;t ever deliver outgoing mail from there. The system adding the fake status didn&#039;t realize this though. Instead my mail came from a larger hub office the next town over. If it showed as arrived at that post office, I knew it was legit. Otherwise, fake. I had a good enough relationship with the Post Office staff at the time, that they explained all of this to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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