My car part took a vacation courtesy of USPS and didn't take me with it

Only thing I’ll add is sometimes they process paperwork (digital) for items at remote locations. This sometimes shows up in tracking results, making it look like your item has been sent somewhere “weird“ when it is physically not there. I’ve had that happen several times, especially when shipping “international”. Can be bloody confusing when trying to figure out where your “xx” is.

Although, Hawaii does seem to be a bit of a strange location for that sort of thing….
 
"Never trust a computer"
There are many failure modes that could report that a package is in a location that is not expected or improbable. The most likely is that an automatic scanner in the strange location (Hawaii this time) Mis-read a bar-code of a local package and interred it into the database as your package. Of course it could also be a defect (bug) in the database software that mis-reported, could be that the package was routed wrong and was actually in Hawaii. the possibilities are endless.
 
I really hate it when a package finally arrives at my post office, then gets sent somewhere else to begin the cycle again.
 
My part is still in Honolulu :(

I'm about to take the 55 for it's first test drive after all the work I've done to it, but can't without this part.
 
Well the part finally arrived from Honolulu. I found out how to initiate a missing mail search and maricously it showed up in Seattle 2 days later. Why did it just sit for 11 days going nowhere?

Now I have a part from American autowire in NJ that's now in Guam :mad:

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Things have gotten way worse in the last few years. I would like to fire the guy running the postal system.. He has done everything he can to destroy the system. We had a good (not great) system. Although it was full of corruption (nepotism) but it was reasonably priced, and mostly worked. Now it often doesn't work. I have watched many packages that are within 5 to 10 miles of me, take a trip 40 to 3000 miles away, REGULARLY. I believe this is to destroy the system, and make it completely commercial, to get rid of our public system. The incompetence is outstanding.
 
alloy said:
Well the part finally arrived from Honolulu. I found out how to initiate a missing mail search and maliciously it showed up in Seattle 2 days later. Why did it just sit for 11 days going nowhere?

Now I have a part from American autowire in NJ that's now in Guam :mad:

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Are you at least getting airline miles?
 
I ordered a part from a vendor in Miami, FL through Amazon, with free shipping. I called and the vendor said it was coming via USPS. It is a formed 1-1/4" steel tube with heavy flanges on the ends.

It arrived at the Opa Locka, FL Distribution Center at 7:05 PM on June 1. It departed the Opa Locka, FL Distribution Center at 10:20 PM on June 9. That is a full 8 days without moving!

Meanwhile, my front end loader is down and I'm loading dump trucks with an excavator.

Amazon says if it doesn't show up by June 15, they can cancel the order. If I have the part in hand after that, I'll take them up on it, but they'll have to take it off the machine in order to get it back!
 
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