I mailed some baby bibs to my little grandson, 130 miles away within the same state (Virginia), directly up a major highway. The package should have arrived there in 2 days, max. I can drive there in 2+ hours. It took 2 weeks. Apparently it went on a cross-country journey to visit California on its way, travelling 5000 miles instead. Yet I can send a big box of tea and cookies to my mother (another hour farther) via UPS and it always gets there the next day. Two weeks ago I ordered some mixer parts from a place in Kansas. Looks like the USPS package hung out in Kansas locations for a bit and then inexplicably went to Arizona to visit a few towns there. Now it’s in Indianapolis. Still waiting...
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I mailed some baby bibs to my little grandson, 130 miles away within the same state (Virginia), directly up a major highway. The package should have arrived there in 2 days, max. I can drive there in 2+ hours. It took 2 weeks. Apparently it went on a cross-country journey to visit California on its way, travelling 5000 miles instead. Yet I can send a big box of tea and cookies to my mother (another hour farther) via UPS and it always gets there the next day. Two weeks ago I ordered some mixer parts from a place in Kansas. Looks like the USPS package hung out in Kansas locations for a bit and then inexplicably went to Arizona to visit a few towns there. Now it’s in Indianapolis. Still waiting...
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