Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong place.
I ordered some stuff from JCF last week, and, not being in any particular rush, choose the slowest, cheapest delivery method, where UPS sends it off to our friends at the Postal Service for final delivery. Over the last few days, I tracked the package on UPS as it bounced around, until on Wednesday, it arrived at my local post office. As it so happens, I'm on a staycation this week- just hanging around, relaxing etc. My mail arrived sometime before 10am, when I picked it up. Imagine my surprise, then, when I got an update saying at 2pm, the USPS tried and failed to deliver my package, and left instructions on what I should do next.
Of course, there were no instructions left... nor an attempt to deliver my package. I didn't hear the carrier drop off the mail in the morning, but my doorbell is in perfect working order. I went on down to my local post office today to check in and was told they had no record of any package, but also that they couldn't track a package with a UPS tracking number (because, as I was curtly informed, the US Post Service and the UPS are different). The employee at the local office gave me the number for the package depot supervisor, but I got a busy signal when I called (being honest, I didn't even know busy signals were still a thing).
Anyone ever deal with something similar? What should I do here? Just sit tight and hope they try again? Did my package get taken by a letter carrier in need of a new pair of jeans and a flannel shirt? Keep trying the supervisor's (possibly fictitious) number? I'm at a loss, here. Like I said, nothing I ordered is time-sensitive or anything...but I would prefer to have the things I've paid for, y'know, at some point.
I ordered some stuff from JCF last week, and, not being in any particular rush, choose the slowest, cheapest delivery method, where UPS sends it off to our friends at the Postal Service for final delivery. Over the last few days, I tracked the package on UPS as it bounced around, until on Wednesday, it arrived at my local post office. As it so happens, I'm on a staycation this week- just hanging around, relaxing etc. My mail arrived sometime before 10am, when I picked it up. Imagine my surprise, then, when I got an update saying at 2pm, the USPS tried and failed to deliver my package, and left instructions on what I should do next.
Of course, there were no instructions left... nor an attempt to deliver my package. I didn't hear the carrier drop off the mail in the morning, but my doorbell is in perfect working order. I went on down to my local post office today to check in and was told they had no record of any package, but also that they couldn't track a package with a UPS tracking number (because, as I was curtly informed, the US Post Service and the UPS are different). The employee at the local office gave me the number for the package depot supervisor, but I got a busy signal when I called (being honest, I didn't even know busy signals were still a thing).
Anyone ever deal with something similar? What should I do here? Just sit tight and hope they try again? Did my package get taken by a letter carrier in need of a new pair of jeans and a flannel shirt? Keep trying the supervisor's (possibly fictitious) number? I'm at a loss, here. Like I said, nothing I ordered is time-sensitive or anything...but I would prefer to have the things I've paid for, y'know, at some point.
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