USPS - "Your estimated delivery date has changed"

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I ordered some expensive electronic parts (I am moving the AGM-114 Hellfires from my old soon-to-be parted out Volvo v70 wagon to a much newer v50 wagon, and the interfaces on the CAN and LIN busses are slightly variant…)

Anyway, I got an email from the vendor, who clearly has things wired up right with the US Postal Orifice - “Your estimated delivery date has changed”. Now this was on a small “Priority Mail” package, so it may be that such tracking updates are not available on run-of-the-mill “Ground Disadvantage” packages.

So, heads up kiddos - the USPS is not able to correctly “estimate” delivery even to larger urban centers with well-established infrastructures and millions of daily package deliveries.

Translation? Stuff gonna be LATE. Customers gonna demand a refund “because it was late”, and Amazon will make you eat the cost of the product and the shipping and fight to get your money back. Its a fuster-cluck, kiddos.

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If it is from the vendor, the vendor is on top of watching the tracking and sending out updates. There is a function with USPS that one can sign up for on any package with tracking to get alerts from USPS. If this vendor signed up for your package and got an update from USPS, the vendor could then send you an update via Amazon message system.

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USPS is showing that message more frequently on all services I use.

It now appears on most shipments where the origin scan is at the first hub, and is often a change from a date range to an estimated delivery date.

It is not associated with an item going to be late, in most cases.

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