WTF USPS?

[davidgillon]

I'm expecting a parcel from the States, which I've been tracking using the USPS website. All I can say is I understand now why transatlantic shipping is so costly.....

February 6, 2017 , 5:11 pm

	Departed	MIAMI, UNITED STATES
Your item departed a transfer airport in INTERNATIONAL, MIAMI, UNITED STATES on February 6, 2017 at 5:11 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
February 5, 2017 , 3:23 pm	Departed	LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
February 5, 2017 , 10:22 am	Departed	PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES
February 1, 2017 , 10:58 pm	Departed	PARIS, FRANCE
January 31, 2017 , 4:17 pm	Departed	WINDSOR LOCKS, UNITED STATES
January 31, 2017 , 4:16 pm	Departed	LOUISVILLE, UNITED STATES
January 31, 2017 , 3:11 am	Arrived	LOUISVILLE, UNITED STATES
January 30, 2017 , 9:49 pm	Departed	WEST PALM BEACH, UNITED STATES
January 30, 2017 , 9:49 pm	Departed	LOUISVILLE, UNITED STATES
January 30, 2017 , 8:25 pm	Departed	WEST PALM BEACH, UNITED STATES
January 30, 2017 , 5:10 pm	Arrived	MIAMI, UNITED STATES
January 30, 2017 , 4:31 pm	Processed Through Facility	ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
January 30, 2017 , 6:22 am	Arrived at USPS Facility	MIAMI, FL 33112
January 30, 2017 , 6:22 am	Arrived at Facility	ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
January 27, 2017 , 9:50 pm	Arrived at USPS Facility	BIRMINGHAM, AL 35222
January 27, 2017 , 8:35 pm	Accepted at USPS Origin Facility	BIRMINGHAM, AL 35210

Comments

[davidgillon]

it took me SO LONG to twig that "New York" was named most probably after an "old" York.

Original York is lovely, my favourite UK city.

[yhlee]

I would love to visit the UK someday but $$$$. My sister says if we can ever manage it we should visit London together. (She's been; I haven't.) Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about any city other than London, and London I only know a little about because my sister told me about her visit.

[davidgillon]

but $$$$

Yeah, and vice versa for seeing the States. My sister's been a couple of times for work trips, Boston and somewhere flat in the midwest (looking at how the US does schooling), but my secondment to Boeing in Seattle back in the 90s fell through - that's why Graveyard Shift is set in Seattle, I'd already done the research.

If you ever do get to the UK, then London is the obvious place, and it has enough attractions to keep you going through a whole holiday, but there's a lot of country outside of that. Original York is small, historic (Romans! Vikings!), frequently picturesque, and still largely surrounded by its medieval city walls. So very much not like New(er) York.