USPS IS A RIPOFF!

Awua--obviously you are a postal employee because you are also providing numerous excuses. I have to side with the original poster, this isn't just a random thing happening, it's everywhere. I've been waiting on a package for over a week that, according to their lame tracking system, has been in Jamaica, NY. Okay what's the holdup? I can't get anyone to reply to me either. This is why I never ship with USPS.

Postal workers aren't lazy at their job. They work harder than you ever will. So knock off the insults. Until you've done the work, you have no idea what it's like. 

A lot of things could have happened to your package that would make it hard for the employee to find it: 

Labels take some hard hits sometimes in packaging. They get torn off, things spill on them from other packages (you wouldn't believe the things people mail) and makes the address unreadable, and so on. If the label has been damaged, then it's waiting to have someone examine the mail and try to find any clues to send it to the recipient--or you. Since this is a painstaking process, and a lot of mail gets damaged like this, there will be significant delays in getting the mail piece on its way. 

Packages fall into weird places in machines, or off containers of mail being transported or through slats or into places where they shouldn't be, unnoticed. Sometimes it takes a while to find them. 

Have you considered that the mail isn't even at the sort facility? Most facilities don't scan every single package when it leaves a sort facility for a metro station, or when it gets to that station. That means it could be at the station, right now. 

If it is, sometimes a postal worker is an *** or doesn't know the system quite well, and puts it in the wrong place. Or someone was really *** and put it in the return mail stream. It may be on its way to you as we speak. 

It also helps to remember that postal workers don't go by names when sorting packages, butby addresses. If the number on the label is wrong (and this isn't blame, only reality that sometimes people mess up numbers without realizing it), then it's been filed correctly--but it can't be found because the address isn't correct. Or the postal worker had a dyslexic moment and reversed some numbers by mistake. 

Sometimes the package is sitting in a mail carrier's vehicle, because s/he tried to deliver it and then forgot about it. Talk to the carrier for that address before flying off the handle like you've apparently done. 

The important thing to know is to always insure any package you mail through the USPS, and keep a receipt for that transaction--and the receipt for the item you sent. 

Always. 

It could be a lot of things that caused any of this, so I hope this helps get you on the right track with getting your package 

--ex postal worker