Incoming USPS package has been given to someone else by the USPS!

[bucolic_frolic]

Question is
1) is it an electronic error? in other words, the package is still at the post office?

or
2) did they accidentally give it to someone else, and will that someone return it?

or
3) did someone claim to be me so they could pickup the package?

We're going to have fun with this! Incompetent local buffoons or crooks?

[PoliticAverse]

1. What did it specifically say on the tracking? n/t

[elleng]

2. Dunno; fortunately haven't had any such problems,

with the several USPost offices I've had dealings with.

Try discussing with a nearby Postal Service employee.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. That's a good suggestion

I reported it to the national USPS and they'll notify the locals tomorrow am.

I'm sure hoping this is nothing political, the locals are active. I think it's not random, but I did receive a misdirected package once - it was sorted and tagged incorrectly. I returned it of course.

[SharonClark]

3. I hope it's Q3, that's the most interesting.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Gee, thanks, that would be the most alarming, and out of the clear blue

Maybe it's Q1. The package has been bouncing between big city and small town distribution centers since Friday 5 am. I suppose it's still possible it's all an electronic error. I have noticed different employees handle the handheld tracker/reporter differently. So maybe a temp pushed several wrong buttons.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Just call your post office.

[Anon-C]

7. Damn!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. So they still have the package

They just push the wrong buttons. There is a distinction between in po box, in lock box, awaiting pickup, arrived at unit ... as well as somebody already picked it up ... but they choose one and that choice may, or may not, correspond to actual disposition of the item.

Is our world complicated? Too many choices.