I hope my Amazon package is enjoying itstravels.
I’m jealous. Wonder what other places it will get to visit on its way from Portland OR to Spokane WA.
They’ve obviously picked your package to check their experimental matter transmitter system, they’re just having a little issue with targeting the destination. Don’t stand on your porch much until it arrives, I hear that can be a somewhat explosive experience.
That’s some impressive movement. I’m guessing two packages somehow got the same tracking number, or a glitch in the bar code. Keep us posted on where it ends up!
I’d say you have a 50/50 chance of getting someone else’s package. It’ll be like Christmas!
It’s actually supposed to be out for delivery today.
Beam it over, Scottie.
Has it arrived yet?
I’m an Amazon vendor, and my own packages have had some interesting peregrinations.
A while back, I got an irate message from someone who wanted to know why his package was in LA when it had been sent from Iowa to Florida. I replied that I didn’t have any control over where it went after it was mailed, although I did keep my eye on it and it did arrive a few days later, and well within the delivery window.
More recently, I got an order from someone who lived 3 blocks away, and I used to work with the wife. It went from the post office, to a city 3 hours away, and then back to town where it was delivered 3 days after I sent it. Not sure how all that works, and I did consider hand-delivering it but that’s against Amazon policy.
Yup, got it as promised. Somehow, I don’t think it ever actually went to Maryland.
I live in southern Maryland and my sister lived in Baltimore, about 80-ish miles away. I mailed a box to her, and it went via Charleston, SC. Luckily, it wasn’t a rush delivery, since it took a week to get to her.
I work on a military base in Maryland. Sometimes we send stuff over to the hospital, on base. I used to have to put it in a box, drop it off at the FedEx office, then they’d send it out to the FedEx hub in Hebron, Kentucky, then bring it back and deliver it a quarter of a mile up the road, to a building I can literally see from my desk.
Apparently a couple of years ago somebody important noticed this and that it is, obviously, insane, so now we’re allowed to just walk it over there.
One time I ordered some books that were shipped (IIRC) from New Jersey. I saw from the tracking that they arrived in North Carolina, then here in my town in Florida, really quickly. I was pleased that they would be arriving a couple of days early at that rate. The books then traveled to Atlanta, then back to Florida, and were delivered exactly on the day promised. At the time I suspected that the package was deliberately rerouted it to keep it from being delivered early.
That used to be absolutely normal for FedEx. They had absolutely no intelligence at the customer “interface” - all packages and envelopes were simply scooped up, put on a plane, and chucked over to Memphis for sorting. It may not make sense for that one package going down the road, but it makes lots of sense for quickly handling millions of packages.
At the time, it was the most efficient and cost effective mode of operations for them. Send a box cross-country, it went to Memphis. Send a contract to the seventh floor of the same building, it went to Memphis.