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Got to love USPS routing …

... let's play hot potato ...

Let’s see how many times this package can go up and down the I-27 freeway (it’s 90 miles x 2 per trip) before it leaves Texas for California.

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
AMARILLO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER
August 8, 2025, 11:01 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
LUBBOCK TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER
August 8, 2025, 8:30 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
LUBBOCK TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER
August 8, 2025, 8:21 am

Departed USPS Facility
LUBBOCK, TX 79403
August 8, 2025, 8:10 am

Arrived at USPS Origin Facility
LUBBOCK, TX 79403
August 8, 2025, 1:12 am

In Transit to Next Facility
August 7, 2025

Departed USPS Regional Facility
AMARILLO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER
August 6, 2025, 9:17 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
AMARILLO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER
August 6, 2025, 11:48 am

Departed USPS Facility
LUBBOCK, TX 79403
August 6, 2025, 9:36 am

Arrived at USPS Origin Facility
LUBBOCK, TX 79403
August 6, 2025, 8:59 am

Departed Post Office
August 5, 2025, 3:01 pm

USPS in possession of item
August 5, 2025, 9:54 am

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Betting this is one of those “our sorting center is overflowing because we won’t hire enough staff but also won’t pay overtime so we are our own worst enemies” scenarios

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103

I got y dawg

Moving Through Network

In Transit, Arriving Late

August 8, 2025, 1:48 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility

METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 8, 2025, 5:18 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 7, 2025, 9:56 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 7, 2025, 4:27 pm

Arrived at Post Office

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

August 6, 2025, 5:32 am

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

August 6, 2025, 4:13 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 6, 2025, 3:48 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 6, 2025, 3:15 am

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

August 5, 2025, 4:08 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

August 4, 2025, 5:16 pm

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

August 1, 2025, 4:24 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 31, 2025, 9:50 pm

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

July 31, 2025, 5:45 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 31, 2025, 12:37 am

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

July 29, 2025, 4:06 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 27, 2025, 2:11 am

Out for Delivery

BABYLON, NY 11702

July 26, 2025, 6:57 am

Arrived at USPS Facility

WEST BABYLON, NY 11704

July 26, 2025, 4:17 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 24, 2025, 3:40 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility

METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 24, 2025, 11:33 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 24, 2025, 5:21 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 24, 2025, 3:54 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

MID NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 23, 2025, 8:33 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility

JERSEY CITY NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 23, 2025, 5:41 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

JERSEY CITY NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 22, 2025, 8:54 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility

RICHMOND VA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 22, 2025, 1:00 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

RICHMOND VA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 21, 2025, 9:21 pm

Pre-Shipment, USPS Awaiting Item

May 5, 2025

This one is a doozy because as you can see they waited 2.5 months to ship it back.

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104

It gets better, it somehow got delivered to Kansas city Mo.

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An increased number of my shipments to Southern California are being routed through Amarillo.

This is a recent change. Perhaps a contributor to the problem.

My deliveries to NYC are either 1 day or one week.

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Coming out of a holiday Monday week, normally our USPS shipments are slow. Surprisingly, all of our USPS shipments from Wednesday after the holiday have been delivered in 3 days (on Saturday) and they were to all different types of zones / areas.

The lone UPS shipment (because Amazon said USPS would be late) is the only Wednesday shipment that hasn’t been delivered (will get there tomorrow - Monday).

Hopefully, this is a sign that our local USPS has made a positive change(s) in operating procedures resulting in delivery times like we use to experience.

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I would imagine dealing with a lot less international parcels might be freeing them up to actually do a decent job at delivering the mail.

Of course if they get too much downtime I’m sure jobs will be on the chopping block just go get you back up to the normally expected delays :grimacing:

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We are in a rural area and do not have much international mail being processed in or out of this place. USPS built a new local distribution center for packages and is finally getting it online so it is most likely the reason. The past year and a half the packages have been routed about 100 miles away for processing out of the area. The new distribution center is about 25 miles away and seems to be saving a couple of extra days.

As far as the chopping block, our local post office told us about a month ago that there was another push to have people accept early retirement (like USPS did back in 2010). We think that is the normal cycle for business any more. Move out the higher paid employees and replace them with lower wage employees or machinery or both.

EDIT: In addition, USPS, in our area, is suppose to start one truck a day to local post offices. This means the mail will be dropped off and picked up at the same time. So our packages that we take to the post office today will not leave the post office until tomorrow when the mail gets dropped off. Up till now, the incoming mail was dropped off in the morning and outgoing mail was picked up in the afternoon. It will be extremely important for us to have our packages scanned when we drop off because, when this one day truck starts, our packages won’t hit the local distribution until the next day. Other rural areas will be facing the same thing.

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Just read an article on NPR about this…parcels down 80%
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/07/nx-s1-5533121/postal-traffic-to-us-drops-more-than-80-after-trade-exemption-rule-ends-un-agency-says

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Import Tariffs Part Deux - 05302025
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This is my concern. The entire package shipping industry is in the cross hairs, I’m afraid.

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Got confirmation of this today and is to start September 20, 2025. So our packages will sit the entire day after we drop off at our post office and then leave our post office the next day. It will be interesting to see when the packages will get to the local distribution center (… the next day or day after that).

We make sure the packages get scanned in front of us. Now we will have to make sure the scans are uploaded by 2:00pm so we can give them a reminder call if they are not (our post office closes at 3:00pm).

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That is only International Parcels, according to the NPR link. If one believed in the benefit of tariffs, this would be evidence that they are effective in curbing excess imports. Obviously, not a complete stop.

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Why? Certainly not because of the loss of international parcels. There has to be a reason why no one has mentioned a number of parcels. I suspect it might be because the number is small.

Co-pilot (ChatGpt) says

While exact figures for international parcels entering the U.S. daily aren’t publicly broken down in most shipping reports, we can make a grounded estimate based on overall parcel volumes and global shipping trends.

:united_states: U.S. Daily Parcel Volume (2025)

  • Roughly 67 million parcels are shipped within the U.S. each day

:globe_showing_europe_africa: Estimating International Parcel Volume

  • The U.S. received 22.4 billion packages in 2024 (The source of this data is CapitalOneShopping)
  • While most are domestic, international shipments—especially from e-commerce hubs like China, Europe, and Canada—make up a significant portion.
  • Based on industry estimates, international parcels may account for 5–10% of total U.S. volume.
  • That would suggest 3.3 to 6.7 million international parcels per day entering the U.S.

If these estimates were correct, it would be between 5 and 10% of the parcel volume. I would say that is unlikely to create major problems for the parcel carriers.

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Yay or Nay on AI?
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But that begs the question; Is that a good thing?

And looks like it’s having a severe effect on the imports that are not “excess” as well (one thing coming to mind is samples of products).
Of course, one man’s “necessity” is another man’s “excess”.

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The major promoter of tariffs would probably state that any imports are excess. Unless the government gets a piece of the action.

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Our local (rural) post offices get one truck a day, but it’s at the end of the day. Closer one (I can make it there in 5 minutes when needed :wink: ) closes at 4:00 and gets picked up at that time. The next further on (~10-12 minutes away) closes at 5:00 PM and gets picked up at that time, likely by the same truck. The mail then gets to Richmond, where it disappears into a black hole.

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Oh, no, you must have mistaken me for Gen Z. I have zero faith in ChatGPT ever being accurate, ever in ever at all. :winking_face_with_tongue:

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I always cite their source for key data. Hence the Capital One reference.

I have little confidence for anything which gets information from Capital One.

People who read between the lines in my posts are not misguided. But sometimes, there is nothing between the lines.

ChatGpt is as reliable as Google or Bing. It can sometimes take me an hour to find a reliable source, not an intrepretive source, in any modern search engine.

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One reason I’m concerned…

“The container shipping industry is moving into a headwind driven by tariff and related trade initiatives of the US,” McCown noted, highlighting how American trade lanes — which account for roughly one-third of global container miles — are already seeing sharp volume declines.

Inbound US container volumes fell 3.6% over the three months ending July. The National Retail Federation expects an even steeper drop ahead, forecasting a 5.6% fall for 2025 compared to last year. McCown estimates that would require inbound volumes for the rest of the year to plunge 17.5%, attributing the entire shortfall to tariffs.

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The container shipping industry is different from the parcel delivery industry.

The container shipping industry has faced extreme challenges since the pandemic lockdowns and the supply chain crisis. This just adds to an already large management challenge.

Many containers have been in the wrong places for the past several years.

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