Package Delivery-Help Me Figure This Out

I think they just pick something when they have too many to deliver. I've had similar notes. I always get my package in the next day.

I just had a FedEx package say it was out for delivery. It didn't come and the update said it was 2 towns north of me with delivery date unavailable. The next day it was at another facility 30 miles away. It came on day 3, delivered by a person not in a FedEx uniform, driving a pick up truck.

Yes, it’s a well known lie and so frustrating. I’m guessing either they weren’t approved for overtime when all packages had not been delivered or they missed it on the truck and found it when they returned to the PO. It’s almost always delivered the next day.

Oh yes, it was a total lie. The mail carriers just make stuff up, probably to justify to the powers-that-be that they're doing their job. Doing it pretty poorly, at least around here.    The sister-lie to this one is the one that says a package was actually delivered, when clearly it was not. It's still on the truck because the mail carrier was too lazy to finish the route. The package will most likely show up in the next day or two, but not always. 

My ds had your lie at xmas time...I sent something large from Amazon (a cat tree) and the post office down there said "delivery attempted, no one at residence". um... it was the middle of a pandemic, someone is always "at residence".    Then when he called about it they switched lies to say "oh we can't deliver something that weighs more than 70 pounds"... So he said "oh good, then since this one only weighs 52 pounds I'll expect it tomorrow."    Ds said if they'd only said "it's pretty heavy and our carrier is older/younger/frail/whatever" he would have gladly gone to the PO to pick it up himself. But after lying twice about it he said forget that, let them do their job and get it out to him all on their own.

eta: And before anyone jumps on me to criticize my comment about "lazy" PO workers... you should see what gets delivered around my neighborhood. We get SO much mail for other people up and down our block, as well as stuff for people farther away. Just this morning when I went out to walk my dog I found an envelope that looks like it's from some inventment/financial type place (real mail, first class) lying on my grass, along with about 100 rubber bands. Not kidding about that....we'll have enough rubber bands to last for the next few years.  The letter isn't for an immediate neighbor so I can't go deliver it myself which is what we all usually do. And the other thing about this letter is that it isn't even on our route... which means that first it was sorted wrong, or it got stuck in something. Then it got picked up again by the carrier and sorted into his bag. And then he HAD to have looked at it because somewhere along the way surely the carrier double checks what's in his hands...? And THEN he just carelessly dropped it. 

I'm sending an Easter box down to Georgia and it's going UPS. I'm never sending packages through USPS again, at least not until -- if -- they get their act together.

That happens to us every few weeks. If the mail carrier forgets a package or it won’t fit in the mailbox and she doesn’t feel like driving down the driveway it gets marked as “no access.” The time stamp was probably the time they finished the route, not the time they were at your house. Now I have probably jinxed myself as I am expecting something this week that I’m really excited about.

Personally, I’d prefer knowing they didn’t deliver it because they had too many that day myself. I can understand that. But admitting the truth (when you don’t have a truthful option to select) is the problem.

And they look incompetent anyway, when people know there were home, and see a reason like that.

yeah that’s the reason I’m thinking

I've had that happen not too long ago, and I knew it wasn't true because we were both here all day and my dog certainly would have told me if someone had come to the door. It's happened a couple times in the past as well.

But the package showed up the next day.

I think they just use that when they can't get to everything in one day. I don't stress until a couple days have passed.

I sent a friend something from CA to AZ, priority flat rate. I sent it on Dec 18th, 2019. It arrived on August 3rd, 2020. Undamaged, but where the heck was it for 8 months!!!

My cousin sent some information on a cd from Missouri to me in California. It arrived almost one year to the day from when she sent it and it was soaking wet, dripping wet.  Mystery. The cd was ruined. 

Half the time that I send a package to my sil I get the same message. It's really irritating. She always receives her package the next day. How annoying. I hope you get your package and your new car today. Do the shoes match the car? hehe.