My USPS Shipment hasn't moved since Jan. 4th

If you buy it again in the hopes it’ll get to you sooner you’re gonna have to deal with returning something. So it’s either the hassle of that, or waiting.

 

I think the original shipment will arrive eventually, the USPS is apparently overwhelmed by higher than normal volume and personnel shortages. I ordered some tubes in November, they were mailed from Memphis on Nov 27, and they were delivered in central Illinois on December 27. No tracking after they were mailed.

 

try making some phone calls
Yesterday I got an update from FedEx that an item had arrived at the FedEx OnSite 30 miles North.

I thought it was just a fudge-up, because I'd specified it be dropped at the OnSite about 3 miles East.

Cut to 24 hours later & I'm wondering why there was no update (& it still read NOT ready for pickup), so I started making calls. Turns out it had been at the OnSite location I specified all along, & the irony is they were the last place I called.

 

According to the popular social medias:
"USPS tracking be like:
1/4/21: Accepted at USPS facility.
1/5/21: Package doesn't exist.
1/20/21: Delivered."

 

Shippers will tell you something has been "shipped" when they get a tracking number - they give USPS data about what theyare going to ship - they don't have to actually give the package to the delivery company to do that - sometimes it's quite a while between when they get you a tracking number and when USPS actually gets the package.

 

Do you mind having extra cables? I'm always happy with extra cables? Buy the set off the first guy. When your other shipment does show up, you'll have spares. If not, you could always pay to ship them back...

 

I had something that was supposed to be delivered December 21st, delivered December 30th, after not moving from New Jersey the entire time.

I sent something in an envelope December before the 15th, and it just arrived today.

I was told by a local post master after a package was delivered to the other side of town, “We don’t actually guarantee delivery”

 

Did it go from Indiana through Champaign or Chicago, IL? We did a lot of USPS shipping, priority mail. Those two distribution centers have awful delays. Priority flat rate envelope scanned through local PO Dec 7, scanned Dec 13 arrived in Champaign (40 miles away), no further scans until Dec 21 in Maryland, next scan was 5osay (Jan 14). Three day PMFRE still not delivered over six weeks later. Same kind of FR envelope using Internal Priority was delivered in ten days.

 

or "label created"................nothing for a month............delivered

 

Post office is a mess. Amazon has cables buy it there if you need fast.

 

You could go to a m-m-m-music store.

Or you could go see a band locally and point at the drums and scream and when the band all turns around you could take their cables.

 

I shipped an eBay package Priority Mail 12/13/2020 from NYC TO DENVER. It just arrived yesterday 1/13/2021 after I refunded buyer.
Residual holiday overload.

 

I have had a really bad time with USPS this year. Shipments have been stuck for weeks for no reason at all. The story from my local post office worker was that if USPS couldn't clear it out with that day's mail, it gets thrown into a pile that they slowly work off. I sold a bunch of non-musical stuff on eBay right around the holidays and three out of about 15 shipments got hung up in the mail. They eventually got there, but it took a while for them to get dislodged. The good news is that it almost certainly will get where it's supposed to go--it might just take a while for it to get moving again.

 

BTW, for anyone using eBay: One of my buyers filed a return request due to the item not getting delivered, and I spoke to an eBay support person who gave me the following strategy: First, if USPS is the delay, do NOT refund the buyer if they say they didn't get the item. If you do give back the buyer's money, none of the following works.

The strategy is to buy yourself enough time to let USPS work through their issues. So, you politely inform them of the USPS situation, tell them you're willing to file a lost mail search, but DON'T them their money back. EBay has a policy now where they won't hurt your seller rating due to USPS delays, so you're protected that way. So the buyer can ask EBay to step in; eBay will lock the funds, and then you as the seller have 30 days to appeal their decision. At that point you wait, with the likelihood being that USPS will deliver the mail in that time. Assuming that happens, at that point you appeal EBay's decision, show them the tracking # got delivered, and they will free up your funds. My buyer didn't get to the point of asking eBay to step in--the item got delivered and eBay automatically undid the return request without any intervention.

 

Preach it brother. I have an item been in indy usps since dec 11.

 

Join the crowd. I called the USPS and was told that due to covid, Priority shipping is 20-25 days. The only things that seem to move through the USPS currently are regular mail or some small packages.

 

Something I ordered on Reverb was shipped at the end of December, then went into the USPS abyss on January 1. No updates at all to the tracking until a few days ago, then it was delivered yesterday. You probably have to just wait.

Anyone who ships using USPS right now is just asking for trouble IMO.