Been using them since 2018 and never usually have any issues.

Ordered some gummy vitamins for my kids and started seeing these messages on my order in the tracking:

(My address on the order is correct)

“Carrier corrected delivery address issue for your package” - this message is listed twice in the tracking as it moves.

Then my Amazon Orders page says this:

quote:

Your package can still arrive Thursday
UPS fixed the address issue, so please check back later for more delivery info. Check and update the address info in Your Account to avoid this issue next time.
Was expected Thursday

Again, my address listed on the order is correct and hasn’t changed.

Should I just cancel this and start over?

I've seen similar messages, not on shipping but during ordering online, about "fixing the shipping address". It's things like upper-casing the city name, or converting from a 5-digit zip code to the 9-digit one.

One time the gov't changed the zip code for my neighborhood, and it took literally years for all the various zip code lookup databases to get the new one. So depending on where I was ordering from I might have to use the old zip code to make their address confirmation logic accept it.

I have had the same issue with multiple orders shipped by multiple shippers the last three months.

I have now an order from Etsy that was "delivered 15th of July" but haven't received it, USPS website says the tracking number doesn't exist, but if I go to Etsy and click on the link it takes me right to it. And it shows that my address is incorrect and that it's in Processing.

My address is correct on the sellers conformation email.

I have had it happen with UPS, USPS, FEDEX, and DHL.

I have no clue what is going on.

ARman

Did they tell you what the "corrected" address was?

I've had the corrected address in tracking with UPS. I used the amazon chat box to see what was up. It took awhile for amazon to check on it, amazon mentioned it would arrive when it was supposed to. Apparently the message in transit was an error.
Now when I see that in tracking, I ignore it, so far everything is arriving on time.

I had an order like that - at some point in shipping something got the label wet and smeared it so it was illegible. They printed out a new label for it.

I mailed a package to the Denver area last week & USPS tracking showed delivery the next day to a Nashville suburb but never going thru the surburban PO. My shipping software (Pirate Ship) tracked the package correctly to Denver.

Cancel and start over?? May just wait to see if it gets delivered first...

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USPS tracking

Good joke... got another?

First, recognize that these "messsages" are canned responses and represent the driver's/dispatcher's best effort to inform their customer (Amazon, not you) of what they think is going on. So it is, at best, an approximation, modified by lack of understanding and data.

I have seen this because "St." was spelled out in the address as "Street" and USPS addressing guidelines do not recognize "Street" as a valid street type.

In my case, where the name of my postal district does not match the "City" field in my USPS-recognized address, I get "exceptions" all the time. There are actually a dozen or so post offices that fit into the City, each with their own name (corresponding to a particular 5-digit zip code). I suspect most urban areas are similar.

So, when the AI validating addresses sees anything other than a perfect match, it will complain, and sow confusion and disruption. Which will come first, AI's thinking like humans, or humans (defensively) thinking like AIs?

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I have seen this because "St." was spelled out in the address as "Street" and USPS addressing guidelines do not recognize "Street" as a valid street type.

How fucked up is it that the USPS would only recognize the abbreviation (with or without the period?), and NOT the actual word correctly spelled out? Amazing...

'AI' - Abbreviated (Absent?) Intelligence!

I’ve had a couple Amazon orders change to “undeliverable” lately and get refunded. ?

Address issue glitches, I get this with several websites/shippers and my address: It constantly wants to change my abbreviated address from the commonly used accepted one to something odd. Like “Rd.” for “road”, only it doesn’t like Road or Rd, and wants me to use “Ro” instead, which nobody uses as the abbreviation for road??? (it’s not road, that’s just an example)



On the other hand I can’t understand why UPS can’t ship things to me even with the right address. I’ve mentioned it before, UPS ships things to ”me”, but to a house in another town, where the only thing similar is the house number?
Boxes are clearly addressed:

Mr. cas
52 my street
My town, NY
12345


Yet they ship them to:
Mrs. Someone Else
52 her street
Her town, NY
98765

It’s happened a couple times. The first time I had to track it down through UPS. The last two times she just called me and I went and got it from her.
Shipped from different companies each time.
Every time it’s been ammunition or bullets for reloading.

That last part makes me look around carefully and slowly reach for my tinfoil hat.

I've had something similar happen for 3 reasons:

Warehouse is backed up and somebody is clicking bullshit canned responses. Amazon Prime Days were just last week and they've been so damn busy that the past week they're shipping themselves, USPS, FEDEX, and UPS. There are 2 warehouses within 10 miles of me and most of the time it's their own trucks so this is unusual.

It was shipped from overseas, and they botched making an address label for the US. I had something ship from China and the label was good enough to get it out of China customs, through US customs, and into the Houston metropolitan area. Then, USPS started shipping everywhere in Central time zone and ultimately sent it back to China.

Label got damaged.

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I had several on USPS showing a variety of things, included delivered that were wrong in the last few days.
Finally it said delivered, to postal locker.
I went to my local Post Office and they were there.
Seems the USPS is having an unusually large number of problems recently and it seems to be nationwide.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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I have seen this because "St." was spelled out in the address as "Street" and USPS addressing guidelines do not recognize "Street" as a valid street type.

How fucked up is it that the USPS would only recognize the abbreviation (with or without the period?), and NOT the actual word correctly spelled out? Amazing...

'AI' - Abbreviated (Absent?) Intelligence!

I've had this w/ Drive where my auto fill was "Dr." instead of "DR" or something and it made me fix it before the order would go through.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
I had several on USPS showing a variety of things, included delivered that were wrong in the last few days.
Finally it said delivered, to postal locker.
I went to my local Post Office and they were there.
Seems the USPS is having an unusually large number of problems recently and it seems to be nationwide.

Yeah. I recently ordered an item, ups did their handoff to usps. Tracking update- "item lost."