I want to be mildly infuriated, too, but I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to convey
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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It looks like it was at some point in its journey very close to OP, but then was routed several states over before being routed back toward OP.
Hub and spoke model? Isn't this pretty standard?
I imagine the red line indicates the expected destination and the blue line was soooo close until it got confused and took a stroll over to Columbus.
I’ve seen some bad ones lately too. Had a package go from Texas to Florida, to Chicago, to the northeast somewhere and finally back to Florida for delivery. And a few where clearly something has glitched in the tracking system, leaving locations before they arrived at them, being picked up from one place but shipped from the other side of the country, etc.
It went from Columbus to Georgia, think the redline is to show the level of stupid. Shipping history, since he was kind enough to provide the USPS tracking number in his screenshot:
This information is pretty key. I assumed they were in Richmond from the picture.
I wouldn't know, all I know is it was scheduled to arrive the 16th, came to the distribution center 10 minutes from my house, then went halfway across the country
Your diagram is confusing. Where did it start?
Oh, I'm misunderstanding the map. Did the package not start in Columbus? Or is that were it is now?
I think the play button is where it started and the logo of a mail truck is where it is right now (down in North Carolina, I think).
The thing is, it went straight from Columbus to a distribution center in the suburbs of Chicago, right near OP's house before deciding to take a gap year and see half the dang continent
I've had a package go from the shipper across the country, to the nearest major city, then to China, before back to the nearest major city, then to my town and on to me.
A few years ago I had a package that did an extra trip down and up the East Coast. Thankfully it wasn't time-sensitive.
I had a package that went from Arizona to Tennessee back to Arizona to refund me on Amazon for the package being undeliverable after a week... I live 30 minutes from the warehouse it was shipped from in Arizona. I was able to re-order it after the refund and got the package in my hands 3 hours later.
Reminds me of my packets from California. 15 mins drive from the sender to the DHL center (15 mins in the center of LA, so they are really close). Two weeks wait in the DHL center. Transfer to the airport. Another two weeks wait at the airport. Flight to Frankfurt, one day at customs, next day here. Each and every month (it is a subscription service).
I had a package come from Japan to Cincinnati, Ohio, then to my city. Two days later it goes to Singapore. It comes back to the US but via Los Angeles this time. Then to Cincinnati and finally my city. I contacted DHL customer service, they tell me the shipper shouldnt provide me with false hope of an earlier delivery. But they never did, I was going off DHL's website and their estimated delivery date. Customer service then ended the chat before I could respond.... I try not to use them.
least inefficient DHL delivery
I had a package like that a couple years ago during the winter holidays. It was ordered a couple days before Thanksgiving but got caught up in Black Friday / Cyber Monday - and, of course, there was the pandemic. My package spent several days heading toward the East Coast, then Chicago, then Pittsburgh, then Indianapolis, then Philly, then Denver for some reason, St Louis, Pittsburgh, New York, Virginia, then finally to me.
Supposedly at the time (DeJoy was fucking around with the Post Office, not sure if this is still true), they'd been running metrics on the various transfer centers and if your center had a certain percentage of packages not moving for a certain amount of time, they'd target that center for "improvements", not accepting that (1) it was the holidays so parcels were up, (2) it was the pandemic so workers were sick and dying, and (3) it was the pandemic so massive amounts of people were ordering online. [Remember this?]
Anyway, in order to avoid being targeted by DeJoy's "improvements", some stations were reportedly taking delayed packages that were about to impact their metrics and shipping then out of station wherever they had room on a truck (though they'd at least try to send it in the right direction, that wasn't anyways possible).
Also, a reminder that fucker DeJoy is still the postmaster, and a staunch Republican. I fully expect him to pull more bullshit moves for next year's elections.
Bless em, they are trying. I’d greet them with marshmallow squares and string cheese!
The Parcel went down to Georgia - Charlie DHLiels
But where's the start?
That's actually pretty common. A package needs to go though a processing hub before it goes to its destination