Usually, well . . always really, when I order yarn, I’m waiting anxiously for it to arrive. I know once I start the test knit, that’s all I’ll be doing is knitting on that so I was hoping to finish the current project before that Miss Babs yarn arrived. The package should have arrived today but it was looking more like Saturday because it stayed somewhere in Kansas for a while, then arrived in Kansas City Wednesday night. I checked on it last night and guess where it is .. Brockton, MA.
I’m not great with geography but I don’t think to get from Kansas City, KS to Joplin, MO, about 2.5 hours . . no possible route that should take it to Brockton, MA.
It got worse. By the time I went to bed, the package had left MA and was in Nashua, NH. Hmm . . that’s not the right direction. What the heck is the USPS doing with my package?
Somehow, I don’t think this package is going to arrive any time real soon. I may be able to finish the current project and something else before it gets here.
I have another package that left Kansas City about an hour before the Miss Babs package. It should have arrived here yesterday and the tracking info no longer shows where that package is. Oh well . . it will get here when it gets here.
Diana Glasspool says
Your post is the pits! A friend wants to send me a picture, UPS and FedX said $400 ! The post office are sending it for $70. Same package same size and weight! There is no sense in this.
Dottie Newkirk says
For what it’s worth – all our packages (in the past 2-3 months) have taken circuitous routes they never used to take.
We get things from Missouri and Kansas quite often and they used to go from the Kansas City area to Oklahoma City, then Amarillo and then to us (60 miles east). Now, they go to 2 or 3 places in the Kansas City area (2-3 days of sitting in the KC area) before moving on to OKC, then Dallas, then Fort Worth, back to Dallas then Amarillo (another 2-3 days) before getting to us. Very peculiar – seems less cost effective to me.
Judy Laquidara says
The local post office here seems to have issues. I get packages or my neighbors; they get packages for me; I get mail that isn’t mine but this is the first time I’ve had a package go from Kansas City to NH and MA. Overall, they do an amazing job and when we were in Texas, we had a great mail carrier. I’m definitely missing her and her efficiency and her determination to do things right.
Dottie Newkirk says
I guess I should have clarified my comment, LOL. I’m talking USPS, UPS and FedEx – they all go every which way except a direct route ;-).
Cilla says
Nashua NH is 40 minutes from me. I could probably pick it up and drive it out to you quicker….lol. It’s weird the route that these packages go thru.
Judy Laquidara says
This definitely isn’t the normal route.
patti says
i just got an email from amazon saying part of my order had not yet been sent or billed so i needed to be the one to check on it (3rd party) thru amazon. it showed that it had not been sent -two weeks- so i notified them to cancel the order. my response came within a few hours that it had been delivered that day! it was dark and rainy so i didn’t walk out to check the mailbox, but when i tracked again, sure enough the page had changed and it showed delivered that afternoon. guess when i get dressed i’ll have to head out to the mailbox.
danielle says
A package was mailed to me Oct 9 from PA. Still has not arrived. After being investigated by the PO it did turn up in TN, and the next day left TN…..and now the last two postings have been “arriving late”. Really???? You think???
Donna M says
A few months ago I had a package that would come to Nashville (where I live) and then go to San Diego. This happened about 3 times. After I called, the post office finally figured out why and I got my package.
Nelle Coursey says
They put your package on the “scenic” route!! LOL