Might also be the carrier noticed it was misaddressed (and had no one to deliver it to) and brought it back to the PO. Who knows.

Based on the below I think this is what happened. BUT..... it started to reverse course and went back to San Francisco but then got sent again to Petaluma. This is so insane. Is the zip code on the box unclear?

Arrived at USPS Facility

PETALUMA, CA 94954

April 2, 2025, 4:56 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility

SAN FRANCISCO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

April 2, 2025, 3:40 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

SAN FRANCISCO CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

April 2, 2025, 2:53 am

Processing at USPS Facility

PETALUMA, CA 94954

April 1, 2025, 11:35 am

Out for Delivery

PETALUMA, CA 94952

April 1, 2025, 6:10 am

Where's the picture of the package that was provided to Jingram and Leon? Is the address somehow illegible?

:confused:

Hilarious! Just kidding. It’s not.

I have 2 Dogs - (Just in case)

Leaving aside potential legibility issues:

Most people would not want their home address posted on a public Internet forum.

The address is perfectly legible. A Postal Service supervisor said there is something going on with the tracking number label that is causing all of this. Something happened to the bar code after the package was received at the Post Office.

Hopefully the cards show up, James.

I bought a pristine 1972/73 Topps Hockey display box from a Canadian seller last year from a Facebook group. He shipped the box and it made it all the way to Salt Lake City to a post office two miles from where I work. After that it bounced back and forth about twenty-five times between five different post office locations around Utah. I finally tracked it down in Cedar City Utah PO where a lady pulled the package and had it in hand. She said there was an issue with the bar code and she would fix it and forward it back to Salt Lake. As it turns out, instead of just printing a new label her idea of fixing the problem was to just put a blank label over the bar code and ship it back to Salt Lake City. From that point the package had no tracking and was never delivered or never had another scan. When I complained the PO told me to file a claim with Canada Post. Canada Post basically told the seller to pound sand as the package was lost due to an error the US PO created. After a month of going back and forth trying to get a refund I just ate the loss and moved on.

So the postal workers just shrug and allow a computer scanning glitch to rule the roost. The mind boggles....

:rolleyes:

Just go pick the damn package up.

Exactly!!!!!!

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Currently she has a tariff attached to her so be prepared to pay up, much
Like a centered registered example of the current card one drools over.

James:

In what State do you live? Should we understand that it's nowhere near California or even the west coast?

:confused:

Florida!

Ha! She’s 75 now, she might actually even talk to me.

If anyone is still interested in this nonsense, the package as of now is in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Having spoken with a USPS supervisor last week, who was very noncommittal and cryptic with answers to questions, here is what I think is happening - the bar code label doesn't match the written address (mine) on the package. I believe the label, with the tracking number, indicates a Petaluma, California address. Maybe I am wrong. I think the USPS scanning equipment tried to send it to my physical address 3 times and a human being stopped that from happening 3 times. It was then flagged somehow and sent to California, and that delivery never happened either. Now I think it's being returned to the sender. We'll see.

Be that all as it may, I bought and have received 6 nice condition 1948 Bowmans. If these lost cards are in fact returned to Octavio, great, case closed.

So is USPS now hiring blind people as part of their DEI initiative? Or just the usual lot of idiots, imbeciles and morons?

But hey, it could be worse. Here's a post from a Canadian in southern British Columbia near the U.S. border:

The Scooper posted his complaint on March 19th. The package did finally arrive on April 23rd.

;)

When I see tracking issues like this, I've had a few myself, the two things I think of are 1 is it any wonder the USPS is losing money? and 2 why can't I put a stamp on myself and try for one of these fantastic trips around the country?

There was a time you could mail your kid to grandma


https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrN...09KieMRzq9N0o-

I think the bar code must have originally matched the address because it went first to Florida as it was supposed to and bounced around there for a while. Maybe it got damaged and now reads as Petaluma. In any case, it seems clearly on its way back to Octavio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmUfUBqE-s

That's no excuse. If the bar code doesn't match the address, an intelligent being would choose to go with the address.

Not if the sorting is being done by machine reading the barcode.

Since the barcode (tracking) number is known, there should be a way to have USPS sorting machines pull it when they next scan it, so a human can straighten out the mess.

Cards arrived
 

Happy for you james that the 48 Bowmans arrived ,enjoy octavio

So is the bar code damaged? Must be some explanation for the tour of America.

This thread would make a great episode of Seinfeld. Again thankfully Leon posted the 53 B Color Reese. According to the tracking the cards were delivered to the buyer today or at least to an address in his city.

Oh, the humanity!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the bar code. And, if anyone is interested:

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfi...00789916755111

Damn!
1 month from Jersey to Florida, USPS at its finest :rolleyes:

So were you given any explanation for the Three Stooges routine?

:confused:

It's the USPS. An explanation will likely not be happening. They "did their job", and that's sometimes more than they do.

Finding a caring, conscientious USPS (or Canada Post) employee is such a rarity that whenever one is found, you almost want to adopt them into your family.

I consider myself quite lucky. Both my regular USPS carrier and the clerk who is usually at the Post Office counter are tremendous people.

Ditto...our carrier is awesome as are all the staff at our local PO.

Same thing for me as well. When my last package from eBay went wildly off-course (as I posted in this thread), my local post office worked to get it back on track and delivered. Good people doing a tough job.

Very happy for all of you. It's truly a blessing. Never take a good postal employee for granted!

Octavio is a good dude.. An honest Seller as there is..

There's over 600,000 USPS employees. I'm not sure why you would think there wouldn't be any bad ones as well as good ones in that large of a group. Like others have said, my local carrier and the people who work in my local office are all friendly and helpful.

Now let’s find the T206 Lajoie that’s been MIA in Philadelphia since late February :confused::rolleyes:

Rubbish.

People don't read any of the letters or packages. It's all ocr.
For a while I was getting holiday cards intended for a different zip code, because the senders handwriting made the 2 at the end look like a 1. No real solution except to keep sending them back with a note, sometimes more than once for the same card.

The USPS processes around 320 million pieces a day -- the success rate is incredible when compared to other sectors. That we'd even consider sticking very valuable items — or in this case $15 in cardboard — in an envelope speaks to that.

I once read that USPS’s failure rate was lower than NASA’s toleration for failure in static mechanical parts and that’s always stuck with me. But it’s USPS, if they sold $.78 stamps with a $5 bill attached to it half of this board would complain about how it was folded.

That's the problem with really big numbers. Even if you're successful 99.99% of the time, there's still a big number of mistakes (in this case it would be 32,000 per day if my math is correct). What's amazing is that is seems like all of the mistakes happen to people on this board. :)

Is a month delay included in failure rate, or just pieces finally declared lost or irrevocably damaged? I've had a number of misadventures but I don't think anything I've ever sent didn't eventually get there, and the only packages lost were two from overseas.

I don't remember anything getting lost that I have sent or received over the years, only the occasional unnecessarily long journey. A long time ago I sold a card on Ebay to a buyer who claimed he never received it. I gave him a refund, but got a message back from him 2 to 3 months later that he finally received it. Turns out the postal deliverer accidently delivered to wrong address, and that was to an office building that had been vacated, so human error comes into play, but honest people made it eventually happen, and even the buyer was an honest fellow too.

Moral...plenty of honest and decent folks out there. Don't let a rotten apple spoil your appetite for apples.

Brian

Pics, or it didn't happen!

Another apple aphorism aneurism for those of Debbie Downer persuasion:

The apple of my eye for an eye keeps the Card Doctor away. Unless that Card Doctor is the type that believes revenge is a plate best served as American as Apple Pie that doesn't fall too far from the tree.


Brian (of course I realize that I am not comparing apples to apples)