Post office problem

[Chemical Bill]

I sent a package by Priority Mail, in a flat rate envelope, last December. I may have tracked it at the time, but I don't remember. I just looked to make sure it arrived. I put the tracking number in, and I could not get any information on it. My wife called the local PO to see if they could help, and they had no information either, which the clerk thought was very odd. I checked on a different package that I had sent a week after the first, and couldn't track that one either.

Did the DOGE boys mess up the tracking system?

[SheltieLover]

1. Maybe, but more likely dejoyless

Just guessing, of course.

[Chemical Bill]

2. I hear you, but he isn't a computer guy.... n/t

[completely_bushed]

3. USPS is Broken

Thanks DeJoy. Thanks Republicans.

Sent a certified letter on March 7th to Philadelphia. It sat there for ONE MONTH. Finally was delivered today. A passport renewal.

See the reddit thread r/usps_complaints. It's chock full of anecdotes.

[Chemical Bill]

4. .

[BoRaGard]

10. The G.O.P. totally trashed America's postal system

and will now try to privatize and profitize it -- at taxpayer expense.

it's what repubes do.

[Polybius]

5. It's not DOGE (lost packages happen all the time), but I have a few questions...

1) I have no idea who you sent it to, but did the other person have the tracking too? Or was it supposed to be a surprise, such as you sending a relative a Christmas present (after all, it was December)?

2) Are you positive the person/company didn't receive it? Again, I need to know more about the party on the receiving end.

3) Is the tracking that you put in on the receipt, or was it thrown out and written down? One rule of thumb is to always keep the receipt until the package is delivered.

4) I don't mean to sound rude, but why did you wait four months? Whenever I send a package, I go home and immediately put in the tracking. I keep the tab up in Chrome and check daily until it's delivered. This is the way.

[Chemical Bill]

6. It was not received.

It was forms for a lawyer. After sending it, I assumed that Christmas was coming, and nothing would get done until mid January. As I said, I may have checked the tracking at the time, I don't remember. I send priority mail monthly, at least. The lawyer may have received it and lost it in the mail room. I just today checked in with the lawyer, who told me that I had to send the forms.

But what struck me was not that it was lost, that happens. It is that I put in the tracking number from the receipt, and the USPS computer system, which up until recently worked fine, was giving me a message saying that they couldn't tell me anything about my package. I checked another receipt tracking number and got the same message.

My opinion is that if someone modifies a computer system with a software update that is not well thought out, the system might give up and quit functioning. Just a thought.

Thanks for checking in.

[Meowmee]

7. It could be or some other kind of error- did they give you a receipt for the priority mailing?

You can ask it to be investigated at the post office too. I had to do that once for something. And it turned out the person doing everything had not properly scanned two packages I sent, so one went missing and could not be tracked.

[Chemical Bill]

8. Yes, it could be...

But the other package, sent a week later, returned the same error on the USPS computer system. A call to the local PO brought the news that they couldn't track the package in the system either. But the receipt looked ok, it had the proper destination.

I know it could have been any number of mistakes, but I wonder if it could have been a computer system problem brought on by ill advised programming on the USPS computer system....

[Meowmee]

9. It could be

What I did when this happened which is over 10 years ago was what they suggested- they told me to open an investigation with the manager and I did….they found out what happened that she hadn’t scanned it properly she scanned one package twice and sent the other one under that number also, so I don’t know what happened to it. I never found out, but at least I know what caused it. If you have insurance and it’s a high priced item I guess you could get reimbursed for that.

So I think that package might’ve been delivered to the same address as the first one and they just kept it.