If you send something from California to Oregon via Priority Mail with DC, and the tracking number shows that it is being sorted in VA, what in the world is going on? Any speculation? Any advice for recourse?
USPS Error?
- Thread starter sean
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I have had a couple packages do that. One went from PA to Cali en route to FL and another from VA to Denver to get to FL. A person at USPS told me that is was the computer software they use for sorting that calculates the best possibility to reaching the destination in the given time not sure if that is always accurate or efficient but it is Government Efficiency!
It happens from time to time. Seems crazy but the package will make it there. Probably a reason why the USPS is losing 25 million per day but hey.
. .gov doesn't do anything well. I'm sure it will get there eventually. Good luck.
Hey mail volume is down so it goes the long way to keep the employees busy.:grin: Seriously what happenes is the computer missreads the address and put it on the crate to VA, but don't worry somebody will notice the mistake and send it back to OR
jmatkins
BoM January 08
When I was in college I worked at the post office 3rd shift. We sorted mail coming in and then shipped it out to local areas and across the US. Letters are sent thru a machine and it read the zip code and then prints a bar code you may seen sometimes.
But most boxes get sorted by hand. We had place where we sorted some packages and large bundles of magazines. We called it the rock pile. We had 10 or so huge bins we would throw packages in then would go out to different areas in the state or out of the state(if we placed it in the wrong bin). So it is not unusual if packages end up in the wrong part of the US
But most boxes get sorted by hand. We had place where we sorted some packages and large bundles of magazines. We called it the rock pile. We had 10 or so huge bins we would throw packages in then would go out to different areas in the state or out of the state(if we placed it in the wrong bin). So it is not unusual if packages end up in the wrong part of the US