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Re: Amazon USPS USPS is bad about tracking numbers sometimes. Never update until delivered. Plus I do not cvare if it is one mile or one thousand miles away. The package just will never likely be delivered sooner. |
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 SikoPremium
join:2006-11-27
Mechanicsburg, PA
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USPS is bad about tracking numbers sometimes. Never update until delivered. Plus I do not cvare if it is one mile or one thousand miles away. The package just will never likely be delivered sooner.
Well, last week I order something on saturday night from New Jersey and it came in on Monday with USPS.
I did check the site on Amazon's site. It shows that it has left the facility and then it says arrival scan on the 18th with no location in it... |
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 Mr NeutronLooks like I picked the wrong week toPremium
join:2005-05-30
Gorham, ME | reply to no_one
said by no_one :
USPS is bad about tracking numbers sometimes.
Can what the USPS offers actually be considered "tracking?"
Tracking, to me, is knowing where your package is every step of the way, from when it leaves the shipper, to when it shows up on your doorstep. Whenever I've tried to use the USPS's "tracking," the most they seem to be able to tell me is that 1) They've received a package and 2) The package has been delivered.
Anything that happens between those two occurrences remains a mystery. Am I missing something here?
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 BachI get Bached down but I get up againPremium
join:2002-02-16
Flint, MI
 ·Comcast
| said by Mr Neutron:Can what the USPS offers actually be considered "tracking?" The last time I mailed a package with USPS, I referred to it as a tracking number and the USPS employee corrected me saying that it's not tracking, it's delivery confirmation. So in USPS' view it is not tracking. |
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Mr NeutronLooks like I picked the wrong week toPremium
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Gorham, ME | said by Bach:said by Mr Neutron:Can what the USPS offers actually be considered "tracking?" The last time I mailed a package with USPS, I referred to it as a tracking number and the USPS employee corrected me saying that it's not tracking, it's delivery confirmation. So in USPS' view it is not tracking. Yet, they still insist on billing their "delivery confirmation" as "tracking." Notice how it says "track and confirm" here:
»www.usps.com/shipping/trackandco···dconfirm
I agree with the USPS employee you talked to: it's delivery confirmation they're offering, not tracking. I think they deliberately misrepresent it so that consumers are left with the impression that, yes, they will know where their package is at all times (as tracking is supposed to allow you to do) when, no, they won't. Instead, they'll only know when the package has been accepted by the USPS and when it was delivered. Big difference. 
Somehow, despite this misrepresentation, I suspect that the USPS is not on the Federal Trade Commission's list of Naughty Firms that need investigating. 
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