As many of you know, we have a mail forwarding service that we've had for many years -- our mail goes to Texas and we ask for it to be forwarded to us on an infrequent and irregular basis.
Since we're going to be at Venture Out for a while, I ordered our mail to come -- I sent the email requesting that our mail get sent on Wednesday, 10/9 -- when I realized that they had not responded on Thursday, I checked the email address. We have our mail service through Escapees, and some changes are happening with Escapees, including that the mail service email address has changed (as far as I can tell, no one has told us that the email address changed, but we have gotten emails from a new address, and I guess the old address goes to the "dead letter email department"). I had sent it to the old address; I sent to the new address, and, because there was a Monday holiday, our mail didn't get scheduled to go out until Tuesday 10/15. Oh well, that will be okay - the tracking indicated that it should come by Friday.
Well... I noticed that, although tracking still indicated it should come by Friday, on Friday morning, it was still in Memphis. Things got worse over the weekend... read this from the bottom up...
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| ... it left Livingston, went to Houston... then (next picture)... |
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| ... reading from bottom up, it went from Houston to Georgia (seems the wrong direction to me if it is on its way to Arizona), then to Memphis, where it appeared to spend quite a bit of time (possibly on a tour of Graceland?), and then this morning, it made it to Massachusetts?!?!? |
Oh my...
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| At least they aren't giving me any guesses as to when it may arrive -- who knows how many other tourist stops our mail might make before it arrives!!! |
We don't anticipate that there is anything critical in the mail... we get most bills and correspondence electronically. But, it would be nice to eventually receive it!
The Post Office under the management of Postmaster DeJoy (Trump's appointee) has taken a sharp turn toward unreliability. You may recall the first thing he did was to get rid of several high speed sorting machines. I recently asked the recorder of deeds to send me a copy of my parents marriage certificate from a town just across the river in Illinois. After 12 days, I drove and asked for another copy. Finally, today it arrived post marked on Oct 2nd. While we're traveling, I ask one of town's postal employee's to collect and forward our mail. (It's a private agreement and I give them a Power of Attorney document do it plus I pay them for their service and postage.) The last year, the promise of two day priority mail has begun slipping. Sometimes it takes 5 days. That makes it hard to get mail when we're on the go. I occasionally see weird tracking history like you're see too. I can't imagine what's going on.
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