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For all you Conspiracy Theorist.
A recent ebay purchase.

Product Information
  • Postal Product: Media Mail
  • Features: USPS Tracking®


Tracking details
USPS tracking # 9449011899561191208601
  • Dec 29, 2021
  • 3:06pm
  • PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
  • PITTSBURGH PA NETWORK DISTRIBUT, 15095
  • Dec 29, 2021
  • 1:51pm
  • ORIGIN ACCEPTANCE
  • MIDLAND, MI 48642
  • Dec 28, 2021
  • 1:06pm
  • SHIPMENT RECEIVED ACCEPTANCE PENDING
  • MIDLAND, MI 48642
Note that the package is processed through Pittsburg, PA only 1hr 15 min after acceptance in Midland, MI. A distance of 397 miles. An average of 317.6 mph. Which does not account for handling time.


Is this proof of ??
Time Warp
Worm Hole
HyperTravel
A glitch in the Matrix
Alien Intervention

To top it off. The USPS site adds this

January 2, 2022
In Transit, Arriving Late
Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.

This Inquiring Mind is not sure it really wants to know!
 

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I wish I would have saved some of the tracking numbers from my packages when they first started tracking them. I assume that they had a limited number of scanners, so instead of scanning them when they were delivered, they would instead scan them all at the PO, so it would get checked in, and then scanned as delivered almost immediately. Of course they weren't really delivered at that time, but usually a few hours later, sometimes a day or two late. Will never forget the package that was delivered 3yrs later almost to the day it was sent. Just had a relabeled package of bandages delivered from Fedex, don't know how they figured that it was mine, was obvious from the damaged label that their replacement label was completely wrong. Anyone need a $2 pack of bandages for $9 in shipping?

I don't know much about their operations, do they scan all packages along the line individually only at the source? I assume that once they are palletized they get added as a group, what happens with a failure to scan the pallet? If they are running late do they rush the loading and scan everything later, what if the scanner is set to the wrong location? What happens when the network goes down, power failure, hardware failure, label missing(pallet or package), manual bulk additions for missed tracking or failures?
Even if it's not an obvious(for people in the know) tracking issue, then you would have to look at flight times. For sure nobody is driving that fast, so it's got to be a flight, which takes your distance down to ~310miles, if average is @550mph, that is a pretty quick flight. Did they have favorable wind conditions, special cargo on that particular fight, did they take it up a notch? If the pallet is scanned right before loading, how long does all that take if it's the last pallet on, first pallet off, how far from processing center or at least the first scan after being unloaded?

Kinda goes with most other things of this sort, so many missing facts and a lack of understanding of how the process works. I wouldn't even take a stab at it until I thoroughly understood how their operations work, esp when things don't go as planned. As I don't have an intimate understanding of USPS or their contractors operations, I wouldn't have the knowledge to be able to completely understand everything that 'could' have happened.
Where can we fit this in the conspiracy chart? :)

Who knows:


Anyone here have a high level of current USPS operations? Has to be someone that has and is a fan of our big box on wheels ;)
 

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I don't understand this post? what are you trying to tell us?
Just a fun little curiosity. Something to play with.

The interesting part is that I am only a 1.5 hr from the origin point.
There was absolutely no need for the package to be shipped to PA.

Clearly the tracking is not correct.
 

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Former postal worker here-

Based on volume of the shipper, could be source of the confusion.

I was a rural carrier, if you have a large parcel pickup you are issued a sheet in the AM with a barcode. However, you are not required to scan every package on the street as a time saving measure. It could be hundreds of packages. You scan the sheet barcode.

The parcels then enter the mail stream and are placed into bins to be dispatched to whatever local main facility. The sheet is handed to a supervisor to be entered in.

What probably happened is the pickup was made on the 28th, parcels loaded onto the nightly truck and off into the mail stream, and a supervisor didn't process the paperwork until the next day. Meanwhile parcel arrived at a main facility and was scanned a short time later.

When it comes to postal issues, everything comes down to bureaucracy.

As an aside, everything is sent to main sorting facilities even if you are sending something 2 miles away because the process was centralized after the unabomber. Main facilities have scanners for explosives and whatnot. Prior to that individual post offices were far more decentralized and would sort in house for local delivery.
 

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tinworm,
Thank you. That was very informative. That helps explain why it occasionally takes as long to get a letter across town, as it does to get it to some other part of the country.
From my travels, and contacts with ham radio operators in many parts of the world; I am convinced we have the best, the least expensive, and maybe the most secure postal system in the world.
In many countries cash and gift cards never arrive. In some countries, I hear some envelopes are randomly opened, the letters apparently read and re-sealed, before delivery.
Rod J
Issaquah, WA
 

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What probably happened is the pickup was made on the 28th, parcels loaded onto the nightly truck and off into the mail stream, and a supervisor didn't process the paperwork until the next day. Meanwhile parcel arrived at a main facility and was scanned a short time later.
You might well be correct. Tracking shows a day between pickup and acceptance.
  • Dec 29, 2021
  • 1:51pm
  • ORIGIN ACCEPTANCE
  • MIDLAND, MI 48642
  • Dec 28, 2021
  • 1:06pm
  • SHIPMENT RECEIVED ACCEPTANCE PENDING
  • MIDLAND, MI 48642

When it comes to postal issues, everything comes down to bureaucracy.
Truer words were never spoken!
 

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Just a fun little curiosity. Something to play with.

The interesting part is that I am only a 1.5 hr from the origin point.
There was absolutely no need for the package to be shipped to PA.

Clearly the tracking is not correct.
we send out eBay packages at work. the worst USPS routing i've ever seen was a package going from denver to europe - it was routed to san francisco, then to AUSTRALIA, then to europe. luckily our buyer was a trooper and took it all in stride even though it took more than a month to arrive.............
 

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^ we do, too. We had a package go from MD to DC (which is relatively normal, though they usually go to Baltimore from our local distribution center, then PA to OH, etc), but then 5 days later it was in Knoxville, TN. Another 5 days later, it arrived in Biloxi, MS. Three days later, it hit Ft Lauderdale, FL. Six days after that, it finally arrived in Chicago, IL. Where it sat for 10 days before the buyer (who lives in Chicago) nicely asked if we could possibly ship her another. We couldn’t believe how nice she was and how long she patiently waited, so we did ship another, this time via Priority Mail 1-3 day (the first was First Class Mail with tracking).

The original package finally arrived the day before the second package arrived after a 30+ day slow trip through the eastern US - and our very nice customer asked how best to get one of them back to us.

We thanked her for her patience, understanding and honesty, and told her to keep the second. Give it to a friend, keep it as a spare, we didn’t care. She deserved that second package and more (and we left her awesome feedback, too).


Other customers lose their sh*t after 3 days, despite the fact that our shipping policy clearly says 7-10 business days for delivery, so she was a breath of fresh air.
 
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