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Mail experts: Is it normal for a package to travel to a totally different state?
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:47 am
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:47 am
So I recently ordered some headphones through USPS. It was dropped off by the seller at the Alpharetta, GA Post Office.
I got a tracking number on Wednesday, but after 6 days USPS still doesn’t have it according to their tracking. I call the seller, and they tell me they 100% dropped it off on Thursday.
It is not the closest post office to me, but it’s literally 20 minutes from me. I check the tracking number again, and finally it shows up. It’s in Memphis, Tennessee at a “distribution center”
Does anyone know if it’s normal to deliver through a distribution center when the delivery address is so close?
I got a tracking number on Wednesday, but after 6 days USPS still doesn’t have it according to their tracking. I call the seller, and they tell me they 100% dropped it off on Thursday.
It is not the closest post office to me, but it’s literally 20 minutes from me. I check the tracking number again, and finally it shows up. It’s in Memphis, Tennessee at a “distribution center”
Does anyone know if it’s normal to deliver through a distribution center when the delivery address is so close?
This post was edited on 5/12/20 at 12:32 pm
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Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:49 am to diddlydawg7
How do you expect them to lose so many packages if they don't send it where its not supposed to go?
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:50 am to diddlydawg7
quote:
Mail experts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:51 am to diddlydawg7
Yes, the routes and distribution is setup. They don't take into account each individual piece of mail you fricking moron.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:52 am to diddlydawg7
Do you really want to know? This goes deeper than you can possibly imagine.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:52 am to diddlydawg7
It was told to me years ago that everything mail/packages goes through Memphis...I don't know if true...
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:53 am to Athis
If it’s fedex it does
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:54 am to diddlydawg7
quote:That is perfectly normal.
Does anyone know if it’s normal to deliver through a distribution center when the delivery address is so close?
Posted on 5/12/20 at 11:57 am to diddlydawg7
Package last week was prepared and sent out of Illinois for me. Was looking good. Looked like a chance of being a day ahead of schedule. From Illinois, I suspect it would follow past history of shipments and head to Memphis or Jackson, and finally NOLA area. Looking good, shipped out of Illinois and should be 48 hours to my door or so.
NOPE 2 days later tracking says it is in Los Angeles.
WTF USPS
NOPE 2 days later tracking says it is in Los Angeles.
WTF USPS
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:00 pm to Athis
FedEx’s main distribution hub is in Memphis.
This is true mainly for Air Packages and limited ground services that maybe cross country.
USPS may have a centralized processing center there too.
With UPS air packages route through Louisville, Kentucky. Ground packages usually will usually stick to regional processing centers unless Louisville is in the route.
This is true mainly for Air Packages and limited ground services that maybe cross country.
USPS may have a centralized processing center there too.
With UPS air packages route through Louisville, Kentucky. Ground packages usually will usually stick to regional processing centers unless Louisville is in the route.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:07 pm to Tarps99
There’s an entire fleet of USPS trucks that run Memphis-New Orleans and vice versa.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:08 pm to diddlydawg7
Long distance information?
Give me Memphis Tennessee.
Give me Memphis Tennessee.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:10 pm to diddlydawg7
Thanks for the headphones, baw!
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:15 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:
If it’s fedex it does
fricking fedex.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:34 pm to PowerTool
Do you really want to know? This goes deeper than you can possibly imagine.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:34 pm to PowerTool
DP
This post was edited on 5/12/20 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:37 pm to diddlydawg7
When I lived in MS, all of my USPS mail would go to Memphis first. Even if it was sent from within the state.
So I would say it is normal I guess.
So I would say it is normal I guess.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:37 pm to Tortious
Hot Tamale or Advil liquidgel
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:50 pm to diddlydawg7
It's on a "need to know". You don't.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 12:50 pm to Fat Batman
USPS has a regional sort facility by Fed Ex at the Memphis airport for packages and anther sort facility in Memphis for letters.
The nearly 64,000-square-foot facility handles 120,000 to 130,000 packages a day and sometimes flexes up to 150,000, said Jemal Jones, plant manager over the annex and the Memphis Post Office letter-sorting facility at 555 South B.B. King (formerly Third) Downtown. The letter-sorting facility is much bigger, 182,000 square feet, and processes as many as 2 million items a day.
The nearly 64,000-square-foot facility handles 120,000 to 130,000 packages a day and sometimes flexes up to 150,000, said Jemal Jones, plant manager over the annex and the Memphis Post Office letter-sorting facility at 555 South B.B. King (formerly Third) Downtown. The letter-sorting facility is much bigger, 182,000 square feet, and processes as many as 2 million items a day.
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