You guys wanna see something freaking HILARIOUS from the Post Office?

[mr_lebowski]

This is a priority mail package, from the Federal Government ... note that timestamps are in descending order, so check out it's journey from the bottom to top ...

It's gone from:
Sac to Stockton
Stockton to Sac
Sac to Stockton
Stockton to Sac
Sac to Stockton
Stockton to Sac

And NOW ... they realized ... there's a problem. With my PRIORITY mail.

And you know what the problem is?

I LIVE IN FUCKING ARIZONA.

March 3, 2020, 4:11 am
Processing Exception
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
The Postal Service has identified a problem with the processing of this item at 4:11 am on March 3, 2020 in
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER. The local facility has been alerted and is taking steps to correct the problem.

March 3, 2020, 4:01 am
Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

March 2, 2020, 10:11 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

March 2, 2020, 2:13 pm
Forwarded
STOCKTON, CA

March 2, 2020, 1:42 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
STOCKTON, CA 95213

March 2, 2020, 6:01 am
Arrived at Post Office
STOCKTON, CA 95213

March 1, 2020, 2:01 am
Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

March 1, 2020, 1:58 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

February 24, 2020, 8:58 am
Out for Delivery
STOCKTON, CA 95206

February 23, 2020, 10:37 am
Arrived at USPS Facility
STOCKTON, CA 95208

February 22, 2020, 8:37 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

February 22, 2020, 10:17 am
Arrived at USPS Facility
STOCKTON, CA 95213

February 22, 2020, 5:25 am
Arrived at USPS Facility
STOCKTON, CA 95206

February 22, 2020, 4:22 am
Arrived at USPS Facility
STOCKTON, CA 95208

February 22, 2020, 3:24 am
Departed USPS Regional Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

February 21, 2020, 9:42 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SACRAMENTO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. At first reading I thought your mail had been rerouted to Stockholm

which would have been even weirder.

[GemDigger]

2. I am nodding my head reading this. I had an issue with them last week where it took them 9 days to

get a certified, 3 day letter to me. The problem with mine was that it stopped showing where it was after it left the first facility.

[Totally Tunsie]

4. Similar happened to me:

Five days to get from the post office to the building next to the post office! In fact, the two buildings shared a short roadway. When I gave it to the clerk, I pointed through the window to signify where it was going and asked how long for a return receipt. Then I paid $6.50 for the privilege!

And to think I joked with her that she could drop it off on the way to her car that evening. Damn. Some people have no sense of humor.

[GemDigger]

5. I asked the carrier that delivered to me if Bonnie and Clyde hijacked the truck....

He just looked at me with a dirty look. No sense of humor. He was lucky I was joking because inside I was really pissed it took so long.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. Yup. Live in Tucson. Send a letter across town and it..

Has to go to Phoenix first.

[csziggy]

6. Was there a zip code on it? I don't think they use them at all

Way back when zip codes were first introduced, my sister sent a letter to our aunt in Greensboro, Alabama from our home in Florida. She put the zip code on but not the state - after all, the PO had been advertising that with zip codes we didn't need to put states or even towns!

The letter went to North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and even places where Greensboro was no longer a listed town, just historical, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It never went to Alabama.

My sister got the letter back covered with postal cancellation stamps and the notes that it was undeliverable and several "no such address" rubber stamp marks.

[mr_lebowski]

7. This is a USPS Priority Mail package with official docs sent FROM the Federal Government ...

I omitted the records describing what happened before it hit Sacramento, it started out back east in Arkansas.

And lets just say, my procurement of the contents of this package required an application wherein the Feds find out a LOT about me, most definitely including my full address (in AZ) and Zip Code.

That's what makes this so ridiculous ... it's spent two whole weeks in a whole other state, bouncing back/forth between two post offices ...

[csziggy]

9. I haven't had anything near that bad

But have had mail sent to alternate locations in other states.

You're right - I bet the scanners misread the zip as you suggested in your other message. In which case, either scanners need cleaning or the printer that printed the label needs to be cleaned or change the toner cartridge!

[mr_lebowski]

8. Actually you know what I just realized ... one of those Stockton zips is the same as mine

With the exception of one digit, and that one digit is VERY similar-looking to the correct one (it's something like 5 vs 6) ... probably an optical scanner misread the zip somewhere along the way is my guess ...

[jmowreader]

10. I have a good one too

A company in Brooklyn sent me a package with photo proofs in it. It went by US Mail.

From...

The Brooklyn post office to
The Boston central mail sorting facility to
The Chicago mail processing facility to
The Manhattan mail processing facility to
The International Mail terminal at JFK to
A postal acceptance facility in Paris to
The main post office in Tel Aviv, Israel

Fortunately, the company that sent it was nice...they reprinted the order and shipped it; it went from NYC to Seattle, then was loaded on a truck and hauled straight to Idaho.