I want to be mildly infuriated, too, but I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to convey
Hub and spoke model? Isn’t this pretty standard?
I imagine the red line indicates the expected destination and the blue line was soooo close until it got confused and took a stroll over to Columbus.
I’ve seen some bad ones lately too. Had a package go from Texas to Florida, to Chicago, to the northeast somewhere and finally back to Florida for delivery. And a few where clearly something has glitched in the tracking system, leaving locations before they arrived at them, being picked up from one place but shipped from the other side of the country, etc.
It went from Columbus to Georgia, think the redline is to show the level of stupid. Shipping history, since he was kind enough to provide the USPS tracking number in his screenshot:
I wouldn’t know, all I know is it was scheduled to arrive the 16th, came to the distribution center 10 minutes from my house, then went halfway across the country
Oh, I’m misunderstanding the map. Did the package not start in Columbus? Or is that were it is now?
I think the play button is where it started and the logo of a mail truck is where it is right now (down in North Carolina, I think).
The thing is, it went straight from Columbus to a distribution center in the suburbs of Chicago, right near OP’s house before deciding to take a gap year and see half the dang continent
A few years ago I had a package that did an extra trip down and up the East Coast. Thankfully it wasn’t time-sensitive.
I had a package that went from Arizona to Tennessee back to Arizona to refund me on Amazon for the package being undeliverable after a week… I live 30 minutes from the warehouse it was shipped from in Arizona. I was able to re-order it after the refund and got the package in my hands 3 hours later.
I’ve had a package go from the shipper across the country, to the nearest major city, then to China, before back to the nearest major city, then to my town and on to me.
Reminds me of my packets from California. 15 mins drive from the sender to the DHL center (15 mins in the center of LA, so they are really close). Two weeks wait in the DHL center. Transfer to the airport. Another two weeks wait at the airport. Flight to Frankfurt, one day at customs, next day here. Each and every month (it is a subscription service).
I had a package come from Japan to Cincinnati, Ohio, then to my city. Two days later it goes to Singapore. It comes back to the US but via Los Angeles this time. Then to Cincinnati and finally my city. I contacted DHL customer service, they tell me the shipper shouldnt provide me with false hope of an earlier delivery. But they never did, I was going off DHL’s website and their estimated delivery date. Customer service then ended the chat before I could respond… I try not to use them.