I sent my Glock slide back to Smyrna, GA for night sight replacement under warranty. I sent it this Thursday via USPS Priority Mail. Originally, the website stated delivery in Tuesday.

Early this morning, I received an email from USPS stating they attempted deliver today (Saturday), but "could not access the delivery location. We will redeliver on the next business day".

Then an hour go, I received another email from USPS stating this "Your package is ready for pickup at your designated post office. Your item arrived at the SMYRNA, GA 30080 post office at 5:42 pm on May 23, 2020 and is ready for pickup" . WTF? I thought there are supposed to attempt another delivery?

I don't think GLOCK staff will go to the Post Office and pick up my package. It was sent Regular Priority Mail, No Signature Confirmation requested. So how would they even know they have something to pick up?

Is there a way for me to contact USPS and have them re-deliver? I don't want my slide to sit in the USPS facility forever. I doubt they will send it back to the SENDER after few days of not being picked up.

This is so F'ed Up!

Don't freak out. The carrier scanned it as "business closed" and will redeliver on Tuesday with all the other packages for Glock. You can't always trust the tracking messages that get sent when something gets scanned.

The USPS tracking system is a fiasco. I have been told the equipment is outdated when compared to FedEx and UPS. The money should have been spent on something worthwhile.

I received one of those "could not access" notifications. BS because we get our USPS stuff at a cluster box. The package showed up the next day.

So yeah, don't panic just yet. My attempts to contact USPS over the phone have been futile anyway.

My carrier tends to use "delivery location not accessible" as a stand-in for "I forgot to deliver this box".

I'll have a box that shows out for delivery. They'll drive up, stick the mail in the mailbox, then drive off. Come 4:30ish, the tracking will switch to "delivery location not accessible". As in, they got to the end of their route, saw they still had a box left over, and said "Fuck it, I'm not driving all the way back over there... I'll just do it tomorrow".

So a couple key presses on the computer, and *poof* it's magically "not accessible", and then they get to punch out on time.


I've even had them do that when they deliver some, but not all, of my boxes. So you're telling me that the delivery location was accessible for 2 of the boxes, but not the 3rd?

They may regularly pick everything up at the PO. It would avoid firearms being transported in a periodically-unattended vehicle (the USPS truck, as the carrier walked into buildings, stopped for a taco, or visited Mrs Jones).

USPS is thoroughly screwed-up atm. I had a package sent from only two states away take five days to get here. A more recent pair of packages got from NY to here in one day, languished in "in transit" limbo for for three days for the last 25 miles, then suddenly showed up "out for delivery" on day five.

All three packages that had trouble had been sent Priority Mail.

I had two other packages shipped Priority Express and they both arrived more-or-less on-time. (One was one day late.)

My suspicion is that if it's not sent Priority Express, tracking and delivery will be undependable--at best.

My local route carriers, OTOH, have been great.

UPS has been dependable.

Can't speak to FedEx, but there was a news story on one of the local channels, yesterday evening, that one of the local FedEx Ground hubs has let packages sit in limbo for up to over a month!

OK. I guess I will have to wait and see until Tuesday. I’m glad this is something that happens occasionally with USPS.

Fear not - we are all experiencing the fiasco of USPS. I have a package that was "in transit to destination" three days ago from 30 miles away. It now shows "delayed, but in transit to destination". Unless that truck is broken down on the interstate, my package is likely "in another state, but now retracing it's previous travel fubar!"

I have been sending stuff I sell via Priority Mail for about five years. During that time I have had zero get lost and have sent a couple of thousand items using that method. A few have been returned due to the buyer giving a wrong or old address. The tracking isn't perfect but not that bad either.
During that time, I've sent some other stuff FedEx or UPS and had occasional problems and the same level of weird tracking descriptions. I now put duplicate labels (marked as such) on opposite sides of the boxes due to their machines damaging labels.

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Originally posted by Southern Rebel:
I have a package that was "in transit to destination" three days ago from 30 miles away. It now shows "delayed, but in transit to destination". Unless that truck is broken down on the interstate, my package is likely "in another state, but now retracing it's previous travel fubar!"

More likely:

• It's sitting there where it was last scanned, staged to go on a truck, or
  
• On a truck that hasn't left, or
  
• The truck has arrived at the next stop but has yet to be unloaded, or
  
• It's been unloaded but the stuff hasn't been scanned-in yet
  

USPS has screwed me many many times, but the following has got to be their best (i.e., worst) SNAFU of all time.

Dropped a Priority package off at the PO that was going out to AZ. Next day, tracking said it has been delivered at mailbox. Wow, I was shocked. That was lightning quick. Looked again, and it was delivered in my mailbox! Sure enough, it was in my mailbox.

Unless you are a firearms dealer, you are not allowed by Postal Service regulations to mail a handgun. You will be lucky if you get away with it.

My apologies. Reading comprehension is apparently not my strong suit today. I see you mailed your slide in not the whole pistol. My mistake. Sorry.

"I don't think GLOCK staff will go to the Post Office and pick up my package. It was sent Regular Priority Mail, No Signature Confirmation requested. So how would they even know they have something to pick up?"

They would have received a notice of attempted delivery. I'm sure they have to go to the Post Office on a regular basis. They will most likely pick it up on Monday.

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Originally posted by Ogie:
They would have received a notice of attempted delivery. I'm sure they have to go to the Post Office on a regular basis. They will most likely pick it up on Monday.

Will not.

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Originally posted by notarex:
Don't freak out. The carrier scanned it as "business closed" and will redeliver on Tuesday with all the other packages for Glock. You can't always trust the tracking messages that get sent when something gets scanned.

This^ Tracking messages/updates are notoriously misleading and inaccurate. It happens with me all the time. I would simply check with the addressee on Wednesday and take it from there. Most likely, everything is ok and on track.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Ogie:
They would have received a notice of attempted delivery. I'm sure they have to go to the Post Office on a regular basis. They will most likely pick it up on Monday.

Will not.

Ah yes, you are most certainly correct!

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My carrier

Should be fired, and charged with delaying first class mail.

Here's one for the books. Placed an order Sunday. Got the shipping notification on Tuesday, with an estimated delivery of Friday.

It's out for delivery today.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
It's out for delivery today.

Did it arrive?