What is the point of a tracking number when all it tells you is that the package exists and the only other update is after it has actually been delivered?

hey if it makes you feel any better my phone is still in honk kong with no tracking at all probbally still sitting on the table

For all I know the package could be at the post office, in route or even at my house. Effing useless!

hey now... that's some sophisticated technology that your dissin.. they spent over 35.00 dollars on that system, and it's not to be taken lightly. after you get your package, they will know where it's at.

thats odd, mine showed where the package was,,,,,which stations and when it arrived or was scheduled to leave,,,

usps, not ups...

Because as long as we think it is in route we want call them and bug the hell of them...

UPS and Fedex are great, why USPS even bothers with a tracking number at all floors me.

ups is great i agree. however, an item i ordered from apple sent ups went from china to anchorage to texas and then back to anchorage which just boggles the mind.

Just hope they don't split an originally one-piece package into two pieces and then charge you for the item your buyer never received. Goddamn USPS.

The USPS tracking number always just tells me its in route. Never what route, where at on the route or if it's taking a different route. I agree it's really annoying. Especially when you have something you need to sign for. Then you might as well say F it. Your never getting that. It always shows up 2 minutes after you leave. You have that nice little sticker stuck to your door saying "We missed you. Be back tomorrow between 6 & 6. I hate mail.

I don't have anything shipped here first class anymore. I learned my lesson. It takes four to six weeks to get a parcel here first class. No need for a tracking number, cause by the time you get your package, you forgot you even ordered it

The tracking number is a tracking system that has to be scanned in every facility that the package stops at. If you have a problem and need to know the whereabouts of an item, you can call a associate office (town post office) and give them the tracking number. They will enter it into their computer system and can tell you where it last was scanned and if it was shipped from there and at what time. Using the number on your computer will tell you when it has arrived in your local office, so you know when to expect it to be delivered.)

The postal service doesn't split packages unless it is too awkward an item and they will talk to you about it when you bring it into the local office. But believe me, I have seen some very weird shaped items being mailed. If a postal worker opens and splits a package, they will be fired and arrested on the spot. Postal police patrol processing centers all the time.

If a package was shipped and took four to six weeks, that wasn't a postal problem, that was probably because of where you ordered it from. If a postal facility took four to six weeks to deliver a package, the rest of the facilities would have heard because the shoe lands on all of us when one screws up.

(I've been a postal worker at a processing center for the past 21 years.)

There's no problem really I just wish I could see more information online like Fedex

You tell em woman!!!!

Just trying to inform....

I appreciate your passion, it's obvious you take pride in doing your job well!

^^ I second that ^^

Four to six weeks is what to expect if you ship a decent sized package first class to the islands, while Priority is only two or three days. Grandma's Christmas cookies don't taste quite the same when they come off the barge in April

I would have to agree with you on that.....I don't know why it would take so long for a package to get over to you...I thought it would take maybe ten days (that's what we get told it would take. ) Sorry about that.