Post Office Package Peregrinations

[feng_shui_house]

The Priority package I sent from Florida to Arizona on Jan 6 (supposedly usually 2-3 business days- but no guarantee)...

First tracking update was Jan 16 at Puerto Rico.

I got nowhere with USPS help. Finally I tried doing a 'missing mail search' on line- filled out all the form, got photos of the items reduced to fit the form requirements, added all the details and descriptions--- and clicked confirm which... gave me a flash fraction of an instant view of a text box which never lasted long enough for me to read it, so I don't know if it said 'confirmed' or 'error' or 'where's Waldo?'

I kept trying to check the tracking and repeatedly got

Moving Through Network
In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late

Finally, YESTERDAY, Jan 23 It got back to Florida.

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
JACKSONVILLE FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
January 23, 2026, 7:14 pm

and again Moving Through Network

In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late
January 24, 2026

I miss the days of the Pony Express. At least then, you could use the horseshit to fertilize your garden...

Comments

[vera_j]

I love your remark - it is absolutely accurate. What a shame, such services...but hey, we are a small country and ours are almost the same - at least we don´t need to track the package an item inside the country (mostly). But sending it abroad - wow!

[feng_shui_house]

The last time I sent something abroad was so long ago 20 years? More... it did eventually get there, but about a month late. Really not fun trying to figure out what to do, pretty much the postal clerks shrugged and said 'it'll probably turn up'.

Great improvements, now you don't have to go to the post office to get a 'shrug and it'll probably turn up'.