It's Andy Fish!

Believe it or not given the choice of mailing a package I choose the USPS far more often than not. FedEx (not FedEx Ground) is a better service, UPS is up and down, DHL is excellent but they sometimes open the package but nobody but nobody loses a package as well as USPS.

I’ve seen it take two weeks to deliver a Priority Mail package (allegedly 2-3 day delivery) from Worcester MA to Hartford CT — an hour drive and it takes two weeks.

My absolute favorite delivery mishap was an expensive top coat that arrived to Worcester’s main post office branch where it was slated to be sent to the proper delivery truck to Anchorage Alaska — and I’m not making that up. Worse still, it headed back east to Cinncinatti before heading back to Anchorage for one last look before it finally made it to me.

The record holder this year is this one shown in the image above.

On December 10th it left Wisconsin a bright eyed and bushy tailed young package with all the hopes in the world of arriving to the East Coast within 3-5 days– well it only took four days for it to arrive in Springfield MA which is about 40 miles west of Worcester – there it spent two days lounging around with other packages before heading to Shrewsbury MA which is about 8 miles east of Worcester and it decided to spend a weekend there before arriving at the main Worcester Hub where it remained for two more days.

Then it was “Out for delivery” which means it got loaded on the truck and my faithful postman who actually is excellent would be dropping it off, only he didn’t. When I checked its status again it went back to Springfield for some reason– no doubt a holiday romance had played out.

Springfield recognized it wasn’t supposed to come back so after two days it was sent to…

Sterling, MA. A very small town about 8 miles North of the Woo. I assume the Sterling Post Office is probably also a Pizza Place (don’t laugh we have a few of those) so it was understandable it would hang out there for a bit before heading out to Springfield again.

As of this writing it’s been hanging in Springfield for a few days– I’m sure it will arrive back in Sterling or Shrewsbury soon enough– it’s only been 11 days so we’ve still got 12 pipers piping or whatever 12 is in that song so we’ll see if it ever shows up.