Priority Mail great, tracking not so hot
Our cell phones had been acting up lately- refusing to hold a charge, failing to connect in places where they had always worked, etc., so I figured it was time to get new ones. On Thursday afternoon I logged in to the Verizon Wireless web site to check out what phones were available for our calling plan, and selected one (making sure I got the USPS employee discount!). Before too long I got an email confirming my purchase, and shortly after that, an email saying the phones had been shipped.
I’ve bought stuff online enough to know that a notice that an item has shipped often means ‘we sent it from the warehouse to the shipping room’, so I wasn’t too concerned that there was no info on the USPS Track and Confirm site the next day for the packages. I checked again on Saturday morning- still no data. That led me to believe that the phones probably hadn’t really been shipped at all yet.
So I was very pleasantly surprised when my rural carrier blew her horn and waved a pair of Priority packages at me. Yep- ordered Thursday afternoon, delivered Saturday morning! The packages came from either Texas (that’s where the mailing label said they were ’shipped from’), or Pennsylvania (the meter strip insists they were ‘mailed from’ there!).
Either way, great service! Now if we could just get the tracking part down. Just for the heck of it, I checked the numbers again a few minutes ago, and there’s still no information. Makes me wonder if they ever got scanned at all- and yes, the confirmation numbers provided by Verizon match the ones on the bar code labels on the boxes.
On the other hand, I purchased another item on line last Friday. This item was shipped FedEx, and the tracking page at FedEx.com has been providing information about each and every move the package has made. The problem is that those moves haven’t added up to much so far. Since last Friday, the box has only made it from Sun Valley, CA to Bloomington CA. According to Google, that’s 64 miles. At that rate, it’s gonna be a while before it gets to Massachusetts!
