Explain This?

[geminigirl]

I placed an order with Amazon.com not too long ago. The package originated in Jacksonville, about two or two and a half hours from here, and qualified for free shipping. Since nothing was urgent, I figured we'd go with the free shipping, rather than upgrading it. Estimated arrival date was July 29, and the other stuff I ordered the same day (from another seller on Amazon) arrived, so I know the address is correct. So here's the tracking information:


Date Time Location Event Details
August 1, 2008 08:07:00 AM JACKSONVILLE FL Arrival Scan
July 31, 2008 07:01:00 PM JACKSONVILLE FL Arrival Scan
July 28, 2008 08:29:00 PM CINCINNATI OH Arrival Scan
July 26, 2008 05:24:00 PM JACKSONVILLE FL Arrival Scan
July 25, 2008 02:49:00 AM JACKSONVILLE FL Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit

Jacksonville to Ohio and then back to Jacksonville? If it had gone via UPS or FedEx, something like that would make sense...you know, going via a hub or something. But this just confuses me.

Comments

[melebeth]

I've had that happen once or twice, also with Cleveland. I think that sometimes packing boxes just long for their ancestral home.

[indigodye.livejournal.com]

No kidding, it was in Cincinnat. O_o There are a lot of us that want out of here!

Tracking Adventures

[(Anonymous)]

I recently tried to send a certified check for several thousand dollars from Maryland to Cambridge, Mass. The tracking info showed it went from Bethesda, to Dulles, to Boston, to Nashua NH, to Louisville KY, back to Boston, back to Nashua, back to Louisville, back to Boston, and finally to Cambridge. USPS considered this to be "Mission Accomplished" but by that point I'd already had the check cancelled and sent a new one -- by courier! Usually they're pretty efficient, but this was absurd. Wouldn't refund my Priority Mail fee, either, though I could have applied to get the 65 cent cost of the tracking back.

Re: Tracking Adventures

[arfur]

That is a nasty routing loop.

wow.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I think sometimes stuff just plain gets mis-routed by accident. I had it happen once with a package - I can't remember whether it was UPS, USPS, or Fedex, but the tracking actually noted "misrouted" or something like that.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

When I bought my PowerMac G4, it ended up going to Philadelphia. It started in Sacramento, 1.5 hours away from my house. I think it wanted a vacation before getting down to business.