re: Trying to understand the logistics of the Postal Service

Hard to say for sure (about your parcel) without seeing our internal data for your particular tracking number.
One thing I can say for sure, manifest data and reality aren’t always the same. I like to think of manifest data as hypothetical. In a perfect process, your parcel will always be sorted correctly, into the right container and arrive at the correct destination.
Automation handles mail much more than humans do and that’s where the majority of our issues are occurring. As we began installing new super sorting machines, we noticed that there are issues with reading some of our tracking barcodes used in manual offices across the country. We are in the process of eliminating and replacing those types of tracking barcodes.
Another issue we see are people re-using boxes and not marking out the old barcodes. The newest sorting machines are able to read barcodes from 6 different views of the parcel, so if you mail something in a shoebox or any other type of box with barcodes, there is a chance the sorter could be reading the incorrect barcode.

360 million pieces of mail handled every 24 hours, 4180 per second of every day of the year, eventually delivered to 169 million addresses. Hasn't received a penny of tax payer support since 1982 and has never received much. By law the USPS has to deliver to every address in the US without regard to how difficult that may be or how much it costs to do so. There is no private option available which does not rely on the USPS to deliver mail or packages...UPS, FedEx etcetera could not operate at all if the USPS was eliminated. Given the volume, the funding and the industry impact of the USPS they do a miraculous job functioning at all...doing so with a 90% or more accuracy rate with about 96% of deliveries in under 3 days it is beyond a miracle. I get shitting all over government agencies and services because its fun and everyone agrees....the USPS may well be the least likely to actually warrant that.....if the US Military, which is lauded by most people, and local police departments accomplished their responsibilities in the same manner of the USPS it would cost us far less for their services and we would be far better off.


I know that at least someone will mention DEI. If the miracle of the USPS is due to DEI we need far more DEI in the United States, not less....

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360 million pieces of mail handled every 24 hours, 4180 per second of every day of the year, eventually delivered to 169 million addresses. Hasn't received a penny of tax payer support since 1982 and has never received much. By law the USPS has to deliver to every address in the US without regard to how difficult that may be or how much it costs to do so. There is no private option available which does not rely on the USPS to deliver mail or packages...UPS, FedEx etcetera could not operate at all if the USPS was eliminated. Given the volume, the funding and the industry impact of the USPS they do a miraculous job functioning at all...doing so with a 90% or more accuracy rate with about 96% of deliveries in under 3 days it is beyond a miracle. I get shitting all over government agencies and services because its fun and everyone agrees....the USPS may well be the least likely to actually warrant that.....if the US Military, which is lauded by most people, and local police departments accomplished their responsibilities in the same manner of the USPS it would cost us far less for their services and we would be far better off.

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yeah, I don't really care. I just want my fricking package that has been sitting at the Metairie center for 3 days.

they suck

you know why