What a way to go.!! « on: May 19, 2021, 08:03:47 AM » Author: Mandolin Girl
I'm sending some books to my mother for her birthday and decided to use a tracked service.  Imagine my surprise when I saw the roundabout route that it has taken, a distance of 316 miles compared to the 25 miles that it would take to go directly there.  So it travelled about 290 miles that weren't necessary.
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	Re: What a way to go.!! « Reply #1 on: May 19, 2021, 08:07:34 AM » Author: Rommie
Yeah, why they thought that sending it to Glasgow and back again was a good idea is beyond me  Mind you, that's not as bad as the time when a parcel sent to me from the US apparently found its way to Tokyo..! It arrived the day after I got that tracking message though, so I suspect it was someone at USPS having an April Fool joke, as it was then that it happened. It gave me a fright for a moment or two, though
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	Re: What a way to go.!! « Reply #2 on: May 19, 2021, 09:49:38 AM » Author: Bulbman256
Quote from: sox35 on May 19, 2021, 08:07:34 AM Yeah, why they thought that sending it to Glasgow and back again was a good idea is beyond me  Mind you, that's not as bad as the time when a parcel sent to me from the US apparently found its way to Tokyo..! It arrived the day after I got that tracking message though, so I suspect it was someone at USPS having an April Fool joke, as it was then that it happened. It gave me a fright for a moment or two, though  Might be a system bug, but the bulbs you sent me got stuck in Miami after coming from Chicago and evetally landed in KC.
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	Re: What a way to go.!! « Reply #3 on: May 19, 2021, 10:07:00 AM » Author: Rommie
Yeah, we noticed that, maybe they felt like a road trip
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	Re: What a way to go.!! « Reply #5 on: May 19, 2021, 01:24:08 PM » Author: Mandolin Girl
I know that it sometimes happens, but to go to Glasgow from Aberdeen, then back to Aberdeen before going out for delivery is a bit bizarre...
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