Who has me beat for best free holiday from USPS? | Selling

ilikehockeyjerseys · 2024-10-23T15:53:20.066000Z

At the end of September, I sent a hockey jersey to Vermont. The buyer contacted me last week. This was a very patient buyer. Their tracking had not updated for two weeks. The last update had it in Jamaica, New York. I opened a missing mail report with USPS. This usually gets the ball rolling and results in USPS delivery packages. I politely asked the buyer to give it a week since USPS can sometimes take a few days to resolve a missing mail report. I told them I would contact them by Friday if there was no update. I look at the tracking this morning. I see an update. GREAT. The package must be on it's way to Vermont, Vermont as in the US state. Curiously, the last two updates are 'Depart From Transit Office Of Exchange', and 'Original Post Preparing Shipment'. Confused about why Vermont has an Office Of Exchange, I google these terms. Nothing useful comes up. As a last resort, I plug the tracking number into https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking. That is a useful website that will sometimes who you additional tracking updates not available on Canada Post or USPS. The good news is that plugging the tracking number into that site answered my question about the state of the package. The bad news is, it's in AUSTRALIA! My poor buyer's Drake Batherson Ottawa Senators jersey received a free round trip to Sydney. I don't even know if anybody in Sydney knows what a Drake Batherson is. I have no idea how USPS mixes up the two bins that say Vermont (US State) and Australia (completely different country half way across the world). If I wasn't so amused at this, I would be angry. Who has me beat for best free holiday from USPS? Have they ever sent your package half-way across the world, instead of to the USA?

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