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I recently had a usps priority package shipped from Seattle (about an hour & 1/2 drive from here) and watched it as it went to Portland, then Arizona, then Missouri before you could hear the tires screech- it finally made it to my door after a week!
 

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KinoGrafx said:
I recently had a usps priority package shipped from Seattle (about an hour & 1/2 drive from here) and watched it as it went to Portland, then Arizona, then Missouri before you could hear the tires screech- it finally made it to my door after a week!
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I hate when that happens. I’ve had the same experience a couple of times. Fortunately it’s rare but when it happens I pine for the olden days before tracking information was available.
 

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KinoGrafx said:
I recently had a usps priority package shipped from Seattle (about an hour & 1/2 drive from here) and watched it as it went to Portland, then Arizona, then Missouri before you could hear the tires screech- it finally made it to my door after a week!
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Post office usually does pretty good with priority mail. I've had similar problems. Long gone are the days of local sorting.
 

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When I bought the Peak Design cuff last year from their site, it went from Ontario, Ca to City of Industry, to San Bernardino, to Denver, CO, to Los Angeles, then to Riverside to be delivered to me. So what shouldve took 2 days to be delivered (since Ontario is a stones throw from me), it took 5 days.

Another thing just recently is when I bought Kodak bellows from Used Photo Pro, even though they're located in Indiana, the bellows where shipped from Hazlehurst, GA
 

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I would not give up hope yet, this is not an uncommon system update mess. Especially given time of the year.
 
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It's looking better. Latest tracking shows it's in the processing center near me and that usually means it goes to my local PO and then out for delivery today.
 

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KinoGrafx said:
I recently had a usps priority package shipped from Seattle (about an hour & 1/2 drive from here) and watched it as it went to Portland, then Arizona, then Missouri before you could hear the tires screech- it finally made it to my door after a week!
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I had a priority package from Germany go to USA, then to somewhere in South America, then back to Europe and finally Sweden.
 

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I once flew from Ft Lauderdale Florida to LaGuardia NYC. Foolishly, I left $500 stuffed in the front pocket of my blue jeans inside the luggage. When I landed to pick up my bag, it turned out the airlines put the wrong destination on it and it went on a plane to the country of Belize in Central America. Good grief. The next day I got a call from the airlines who told me they recovered the bag and it was returned to LaGuardia and I could come down to pick it up. When they gave it to me it was split open and tied with cord to hold together. I quickly cut the cords and opened it up, and amazingly, the $500 was still there stuffed in the jean's pocket.

What's the odds of that happening?
 

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Not all baggage handlers are thieves. Even if they're from Belize.
 

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Opa-locka is pretty much part of Miami. One side of a street is Miami the other side is Opa-locka so the shipping facility might be there If possible you might check the zip code My guess it should be 33xxx. If not you might have an issue
 

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I shipped a few small Jobo parts in a padded envelope to someone in a small town in British Columbia from my Florida west coast location.
The package went…
Tampa-Miami-New York-Toronto-Miami-Los Angeles-Vancouver
Took almost 2 weeks.
It was as if it got to Toronto and Canada post office said you can’t come this way go back and go up the other side.
 
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It doesn't look good. It said it was delivered but nothing. I called the post office and they asked me for the tracking number and after they looked it was delivered to another part of the town. The PO sent me a picture of the package and it looks like an envelope and the it's addressed Attn online buyer with an address that's not me. The C087 is the carrier's route which is not my neighborhood. The strange thing is the tracking number from ebay and the tracking number on the package is 1 digit different. The last 4 digits on ebay's tracking number are 4806 but the package it's 6806. How do they do this? I crossed out the actual addresses on the label.
 

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Dang.

… but that’s a prepaid RETURN envelope rather than a “sent” envelope/parcel. Weird. Did you open to see what’s inside?
 

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I'm sorry for your loss, but thank you for sharing your experience. That type of shipping scam is something I'd not have suspected. I'm still not sure how they did that.
I hope they don't get a way with it and you get your money back!
 

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Very strange. PayPal will claw back the money. Could be timed for holidays, Grinch
ic-racer said:
I'm sorry for your loss, but thank you for sharing your experience. That type of shipping scam is something I'd not have suspected. I'm still not sure how they did that.
I hope they don't get a way with it and you get your money back!
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Maybe I am not reading properly, but if the post office DELIVERED the envelope, how were they able to take a photo of it? And if the tracking number is not the same, it is simply not the package under discussion. Sounds as if whoever took down the number at the post office and entered it for a search slipped on a number.

Not sure how your post office is. I have had the best luck going in and tying up someone at the counter and talking it out with them
 

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So does Ebay show it as delivered. 1970's I worked part time for a animal feed company. This place used food grade mineral oil, a fellow who took delivery of a rail car of "mineral oil" figured that the string of tracking numbers must be OK because they differed by only the last digit.
This stuff was so viscous it couldn't be pumped, thank goodness. It turned out to be a mistake, railroad sent rubber plasticizer intended for a tire plant.

Maybe you will get the camera yet
 

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I just checked the tracking number of the envelope you have pictured, says label created, not yet in system.

I'm going to hold out hope. Never underestimate weird circumstances, especially with the holiday nuttiness!
 

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Yeah, the only delivery companys that take a photo of the delivered package is UPS & Amazon, and thats when they put it by the front door, never holding it.

With usps, when they've delivered a package that doesnt fit my mailbox they've usually just put it by my front door, knock & then leave.
 

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The photographing thing is for contractors. Amazon, FedEx, and UPS all make use of third party final mile delivery operations. Like Doordash or Uber, a way to not be responsible for safety, payment, benefits, etc. The photo is a way for the independent contractor to cover themselves from customers who pull scum moves as well as the corporations who treat employees like kleenex.
 

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Does it seem that one person held the envelope and another took the photo? Not sure I could bend my right hand that way and take the photo with my left. If so, having a two-person delivery team doesn’t seem likely to me.
 

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Dan Daniel said:
Amazon, FedEx, and UPS all make use of third party final mile delivery operations. Like Doordash or Uber, a way to not be responsible for safety, payment, benefits, etc
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And/or a way to make a logistics system a little more efficient instead of having a gazillion carriers all driving around the same routes/neighborhoods day after day. Indeed, I see last mile end up with specialized carriers, potentially more localized, and pretty much anyone being able to contract out something to them. That parties like Uber & Doordash jump into the gap makes good sense from this point of view.
 
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