US Postal Service

to my wife, a package from Loft was in Phila. Then it went to Denver, to Atlanta, and 2 weeks later, got delivered.

When I send my mom a card, Phila to Hartford, it doesn't seem to get there. I truly don't know where the problem is, but she blames Phila.

At the same time, interestingly, I've never not gotten official paperwork. For example, in 23 years, all 3 tax bills have been delivered. As a matter of fact, the school taxes are coming today. Hopefully it's not 23% more like the county taxes were for 2025.

I ship usps first class parcel (whatever it's called these days) quite often. On occasion i've seen a package destined for CA end in in FL.

Packages get misrouted all the time.

In general, it will get there eventually.

More recently, it took a package 2 days to go 15 miles - from my PO to the local sorting plant.

Sadly it happens quite often. As we speak I have a package bouncing around the midwest.

I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, an item I bought was mailed on June 16th in Chicago, IL From there it went to 3 different spots in Wisconsin, then it was OUT FOR DELIVERY in Wisconsin, then it went back to Illinois, back to Wisconsin back to Illinois, back to Wisconsin, back to Illinois, Then made its way to western Pennsylvania 300 miles away from me in the east, then to Ohio, and back to Wisconsin where it sits now.

This is not the first time I have sent or tried to receive stuff only to have it bounce around and never make it to me or the destination. Well I shouldn't say never, I mailed something to my in-laws in northeastern PA to have bounce around in in NJ then disappear. 6 months later it showed up at their house, I could have driven it there in two hours.

It hasn't been long enough to file a claim yet.

I hate THE USPS. IT'S antiquated and a and loses millions, if not billions, a year. Often delivering mail to wrong address or in wrong box. Meantime, getting everyone else's mail but yours. It should be run by UPS OR FEDEX or at least some private enterprise. It's the worst run business in THE USA. GET RID OF THE USPS.

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It's a byproduct of our educational system that's hell bent on not just dumbing down noooo, that's insufficient, but a total of STUPIDIFICATION of everyone that goes through it, that's the goal!

Consider this as a representative sample of the critical thinking our educational systems are dumping into the public work space...

[During the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Tuesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define what a “woman” is, deferring instead to scientific experts.

When asked to define “woman” by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, she replied, “I can’t…I’m not a biologist.” Blackburn shot back, “The meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?”

“Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there’s a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and I decide,” Jackson added, reiterating the methodical judicial approach she has historically applied.]

This, in and of itself should cause everyone to pause and consider how in the world anything gets delivered through the USPS.

Can you imagine every time a "parcel" is handled by a USPS employee in an effort to deliver it, a small skirmish erupts about what numerical base was used for the numerical portion describing the numerical location of the target address.

Perhaps the USPS should consider having the general population at large abandon any notion of unit address and road name in conjunction with locality name, State and zip + 4 descriptors and start using normalized GPS coordinates as deliver addresses.

And don't forget, along with changing the address structure for parcels to be delivered, the recipients identification should become equally arcane.. perhaps abusing the federal TIN ( tax Identification Number [social secutlrity number])

Can you imagine addressing a parcel as:

To: 045-44-6548 & 768-12-7875
38.897957, -77.036560

But, I'm more than certain the ACLU would file some form of discrimination suit over the whole damn thing!

Yeah, That's the ticket!

Whew.. y'know.. I got so worked up over this , I now need t'go pass gas!

I live in rural Northeast PA and often experience this package "bounce". IMO, it's one of the reasons Amazon is attempting to lessen its dependence on the USPS.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/29/svgo-j29.html

I'm not sure if it's part of Amazon Prime, but they now offer a replacement product or refund when this bounce occurs. The option is available 3 or 4 days after the expected delivery date.

I use the service whenever the problem happens and just return the original item at no charge when and if it ever shows up. Most of the time, it doesn't. On a few occasions, when a less expensive item does show up, Amazon told me to just keep and not return it at no charge. I guess its cheaper for them to eat the cost of the item rather than pay for the return shipping.