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

[yhlee]

What the absolute fuck?!

I thought the overdue parcel I'm expecting, which is currently bouncing around between New Jersey and Tennessee (it was shipped from California, dammit! New Jersey's on the other side of the country! I'm in the middle!), was bad, but this beggars the imagination.

[davidgillon]

I know!

What makes it worse is it's something I ordered almost a year ago. I knew it was pre-release when I did that, but didn't expect it to take quite so long to release. They started shipping at the start of December and I spent Christmas dreading it would arrive while I was away from home and be shipped back to the States. It looks like I ended up at the absolute end of the queue for shipping, and then it bypassed the missed delivery and went straight on to the shipped back to the States.

Twice.

[alatefeline]

That ... makes no sense. None.

[vass]

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for thi...

Nah.

[sunflowerinrain]

I have a theory about USian geographical norms. Immigrants, especially from Britain, missed their birthplace and when they set up towns they named them after their hometowns. Consequently, USians don't know which city is where!

There must be other explanations for so many random and botched deliveries in UK, of course. ;)

[yhlee]

This is true. As a wee Texan, it took me SO LONG to twig that "New York" was named most probably after an "old" York.

(As a wee Texan, "New York" was "up there somewhere in the North" and I didn't spare it much thought. Then I married an upstate New Yorker...)

[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.