Tracked Packet to USA randomly returned to me after 30 days | Selling

dinomitesales · 2026-01-15T22:18:20.458000Z

A Tracked Packet I sent to the States via Canada Post/Zonos on December 15th just appeared in my mailbox today, January 15th, a full 30 days later. There are no markings or writing anywhere on the envelope to indicate why it might have been returned to me. The only anomaly is a square label that was applied to the front that I've never seen before that says "ID TAG" with a QR code and a bunch of numbers. I don't know which entity applied that tag but I'm assuming it has something to do with customs clearance or USPS processing (but the fact that it's covering the recipient's address suggests it was only applied on the return journey).If I follow the tracking on Canada Post's side it says that it was sent to US customs on Dec 18, and was "Processed" on Dec 30 in "Forest Park, USA" (which I believe is a suburb of Chicago). Zero updates until Jan 9 when it said it was "released by [Canadian] Customs and is now with Canada Post for processing", and then it travelled back to me. If I track it on USPS it has various scans such as "Arrived at" or "Processed through" a regional facility in Chicago between Dec 30-Jan 7.Based on the available data, I can only assume it was rejected by US customs for some reason between Jan 7 and Jan 9 and returned to me in Canada. There is zero reason for this to have happened. It was a Pokemon card valued at $69.99 CAD and declared properly on Zonos and on the customs declaration. I have sent about 5 other similar packages that have been pretty much identical (some valued even higher than this one) and haven't had any issues with those. I reached out to Canada Post and they were unable to provide any information as to why this item was returned to me.I'm so tired of all this. Between this and just the general slow-ness of getting things delivered in the States via Canada Post/Zonos. I'm averaging about 30 days delivery time amongst all my packages sent since the end of November. And now things are randomly being returned to me for seemingly no reason.

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