This is crazy [Postal Service]

[rapmarks]

Suggestion only, asked the company to mail you a new order to your current address and let your first order be returned to the company.
Remember, this is a suggestion only.

Yes, this is what they are doing. Sending me a new order and I am not worrying about original but would love to see the package with all the postmarks.

 

[rapmarks]

The original package sent out June 12 arrived today July 12. It is battered and torn, tape and rubber bands holding it together. I need to call the company so I haven’t opened it in case they want it shipped back.

 

[TheTimeTraveler]

The original package sent out June 12 arrived today July 12. It is battered and torn, tape and rubber bands holding it together. I need to call the company so I haven’t opened it in case they want it shipped back.

Ramparts; If you know mail is going in your name to other specific addresses then you can go into the USPS Website and fill out a forwarding orders for those phantom addresses so that your misdirected mail will hopefully end up on your doorstep.

I had some friends who had moved a lot in the past 10 years and weren't getting all their mail, so they filled out forwarding orders for all the addresses that they had been at for the previous 3 years and were surprised as to how much mail they received with new yellow forwarding tags on the envelopes; this in spite of the fact that they had filled out forwarding orders every time they had moved over the last 5 years.

In your case, the chances are very good that the original order clerk (at the shipping warehouse) keyed an incorrect address or zip code on the label, or the actual bar code that was applied to the package was either incorrect, misread, or unclear due to ink or obliteration issues. There is usually (but not always) a reason behind the scenes!

Keep in mind that there is little human intervention on every mail piece. It is usually in the beginning of the journey, and/or at the end of the journey. Everywhere in between it is handled by machinery and automation, so it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I am glad you finally did receive your package (even though it is in rough shape); that alone could have caused your package to have been misdirected!





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[rapmarks]

Ramparts; If you know mail is going in your name to other specific addresses then you can go into the USPS Website and fill out a forwarding orders for those phantom addresses so that your misdirected mail will hopefully end up on your doorstep.

I had some friends who had moved a lot in the past 10 years and weren't getting all their mail, so they filled out forwarding orders for all the addresses that they had been at for the previous 3 years and were surprised as to how much mail they received with new yellow forwarding tags on the envelopes; this in spite of the fact that they had filled out forwarding orders every time they had moved over the last 5 years.

In your case, the chances are very good that the original order clerk (at the shipping warehouse) keyed an incorrect address or zip code on the label, or the actual bar code that was applied to the package was either incorrect, misread, or unclear due to ink or obliteration issues. There is usually (but not always) a reason behind the scenes!

Keep in mind that there is little human intervention on every mail piece. It is usually in the beginning of the journey, and/or at the end of the journey. Everywhere in between it is handled by machinery and automation, so it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I am glad you finally did receive your package (even though it is in rough shape); that alone could have caused your package to have been misdirected!





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They put my Wisconsin address with my Florida zip code. Eventually, after the package traveled about twenty thousand miles, someone corrected the zip code.

 

[TheTimeTraveler]

Glad that you now have a specific reason; it's very understandable why it took so long to reach you.

I'm actually surprised that it wasn't returned to the sender weeks ago....




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