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It was supposed to arrive on the 17th.
Who planned that route from California to New Jersey to Arizona to Maine? Newman? Cliff Clavin?
Newman!
shareDid it ever occur to you that your package needed to make stops for bathroom breaks?
shareBacktracking from New Jersey to Arizona is one hell of a bathroom break. The route is like if someone in British Columbia mailed something to Nova Scotia, and it went from British Columbia to Quebec to Alberta to Nova Scotia.
shareI'm guessing it's somehow a cost thing. One time I had to pay a duty because it crossed a province.
share"One time I had to pay a duty because it crossed a province."
That doesn't happen in the US, and this type of a shipping route isn't at all normal. I have things shipped here all the time (including many things from California, because there are a ton of eBay sellers located there), and I usually look at the tracking page for each shipment. The shipping routes are normally direct and logical. This particular one was caused by ineptitude, which is why it's 5 days late, due to crossing the country 3 times instead of once.
The duty between provinces only happened to me once. I thought it was a scam but it turned out it was real.
I'm guessing in your case, they were sending it to the wrong location and then attempted to redirect it. But going back and forth like that is strange.
This was my thought, too. Somehow the package ended up in the wrong truck and it took a crazy route to get back on track. Not too long ago, I had a package that was coming from Chicago to Minneapolis. It ended up going to the west coast somewhere before finally going back to Chicago and then coming here.
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