So for the second time in just over a week, the postal service has misdelivered a package that was addressed to ME. I’d like to add that these are the first two packages in the history of ever that I’ve cared about when they arrived. Still, USPS is normally on their game at getting packages to me. I’m not sure the last time I expected a package that took more than a week to get to me, nor do I recall tracking information that was as jacked up at what I’m getting for these two, shy of stuff I got “free” shipping on.
The first one was labeled “delivered”, yet there was nothing in my grubby little hands. After two days, I called USPS. They seemed to think it was a legitimate concern, but said that someone on the local level would have to give me a call in one business day–the following Monday. I was called and lied to outright. The man told me that “delivered” just meant that the package had arrived at the sorting facility, but that they’d gotten “hundreds and hundreds” of packages over the holiday weekend, so of course there was backlog. I told him that language was confusing, but I just mentally wrote it off that someone accidentally marked the package received while logging it through their system.
Not so. The package arrived two days later with “Misdeliver” written on it.
Now, I have a package with the slowest tracking in the history of the world waiting out there. It appeared to have taken the weekend to travel from it’s origin to New Jersey, then six days to make the trip from Jersey to Ohio. And then it was marked “missent” after it left, and after two days.
If the misdeliver happened locally again, I’m lodging so many complaints. I don’t even receive that many packages, but I know this is more than a little effed up. One of the mail carriers that handles our apartment already admitted to just LEAVING mail in my box because someone in the complex, somewhere, had my last name.
ASJHGAJHG!